...A. W. Price PHILOSOPHY AND THE GOOD LIFE: REASON AND THE PASSIONS IN GREEK, CARTESIAN AND PSYCHOANALYTIC ETHICS. By John Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 230. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REWEWS as cause. (3) Although our having been created out...

...Alison Simmons Cornell University 2001 The PhiZosophicaZReviezu, Vol. 110, No. 1 (January 2001) Changing the Cartesian Mind: Leibniz on Sensation, Representation and Consciousness Alison Simmons What did Leibniz have to contribute...

.... (Cited as CSM.) Cornell University 2000 CARTESIAN TRUTH. By Thomas C. Vinci. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xv, 270. BOOK REVIEWS done on this major figure in the history of philosophy. Thanks to Dobbin’s sensitive translation and intelligent...

...Lex Newman Cornell University 2004 The Philosophical Review, Vol. 113, No. 1 (January 2004) Rocking the Foundations of Cartesian Knowledge: Critical Notice of Janet Broughton, Descartes’s Method of Doubt Lex Newman...

...Colin Chamberlain; Jeffrey K. McDonough © 2013 by Cornell University 2013 Nadler Steven , Occasionalism: Causation Among the Cartesians . New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . xi +215 pp . BOOK REVIEWS Paula Gottlieb, The Virtue...

... it have a distinctive phenomenology, beyond just imagery and feelings?). Cartesian skeptical scenarios undermine knowledge of ongoing conscious experience as well as knowledge of the outside world. Infallible judgments about ongoing mental states are simply banal cases of self-fulfillment. Philosophical...

..., No. 1 (January 2002) INSIGHT AND INFERENCE: DESCARTES’S FOUNDING PRINCIPLE AND MOD- ERN PHILOSOPHY. By MURRAY MILES. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 564. This long and ambitious work offers a systematic interpretation of Cartesian metaphysics and epistemology from...

... repre- sentations’’ (24). Really? What follows is essentially and for the most part a sustained effort to undermine broadly idealist (and more specifically phenomenalist) interpre- tations of Kant. What all such readings of Kant presuppose, we are told, is an untenable Cartesian standpoint...

..., this in spite of Locke's multiple assertions that Cartesian dualism is the more likely hypothesis than thinking matter. According to Jolley, Locke “arguably leaves it to the reader to infer that materialism is the most reasonable of the competing options” (8); a couple pages later, he says, “for Locke...

... are certain that at least one of them must be necessarily false. (iii) The unofficial main argument for egocentric presentism . When Hare officially introduces his full-blown version of egocentric presentism, in chapter 3, he employs a thought experiment. He imagines going through a Cartesian...

... sets of philosophical issues raised by or implicit in Descartes’s work: the nature of a machine (chapter 4), the role of simulation in Descartes’s physiology (chap- ter 5), and the sorts of unity that may or may not be attributable to Cartesian organisms (chapter 6). As Des Chene is the first...

... 1668 to 1671. In various texts she finds evidence that Leibniz regarded the Cartesian view of bodily substance as res extensa unsatisfying both philosophically and theologically. As she shows, Leibniz persistently argued that since extension was insufficient to account for motion, something...

... against physicalism. The topic of part IV is knowledge. Chapter 13 (“Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Skepticism”) assumes an externalist view of epistemic justification and argues that Cartesian skepticism is ineffective against reliabilist theories of epistemic justification. The topic of Cartesian...

....) The dominant theme of these essays is the project of deriving all em- pirical knowledge from statements about sense-data-the given. The philos- opher who looms largest in these essays is C. I. Lewis. Lewis’s influence is followed by that of J. L. Austin, who challenged the Cartesian framework...

... exemplified by the references below and will especially appeal to those familiar with the analytical exposition in those works. The first chapter effectively frames the book’s canvas by outlining the young Leibniz’s engagement with Scholastic controversies over individuation. The Cartesian dualism...

... successors than of his having written too much that was not. Malebranche was a celebrated and powerful figure whose influence on the operating philos- ophy of the Paris Académie des sciences was considerable. He relayed Cartesian problems to Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and his rejection of Locke...

... ‘Many European scholars are well aware of the existence of a Cartesian ethics, due perhaps in part to Genevii.ve Rodis-Lewis’s La Morale de Descartes (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957), the work that Marshall takes as his model. 270...

... that amidst all of this prodigious intertextuality, there is one very large missed opportunity. The Cartesian substitution of mind for soul has so dominated modern philosophy that we no longer have a clear sense of what the human soul might be, if not a mind. All of Des Chene’s Jesuits are per- suaded...

... of the Three Dialogues, where the “materialist” Hylas never states or defends a strict materialism, but confines himself to a version of Cartesian or Lockean mind-body dualism. However, this strategy also highlights the fact that Berkeley can make a very strong case against dualistic metaphysics but has...

... are . . . creatures of an omnipotent and beneficent God . . . ” (234). Of course any attempt to establish this pedigree by empirical means is doomed. In Meditation 2 exercise of the inward-turning, contemplative discipline isolates the Cartesian ego as nothing more than a thinking being, whose...