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... will intro- duce some of Descartes’s views as a background against which we might interpret Spinoza.16 Descartes developed his views on developmental psychology between 1640 and 1641. Gassendi’s objections to the immaterialist account of mind in the Second Meditation may have moved...

... M. Adam, “RenC Descartes et Pierre Charron,” huephilosophique (1992): 467-83. “See especially his La Ven’td des Sciences contre les Septiques ou Pyrrhoniens (Paris, 1625). See also Gassendi’s Exercitationes Paradoxicae aduersus Aristote- Zeos (Grenoble, 1624), Disquisitio Metaphysica...

... given Broughton’s interpretation. For, on her account, what is impressive about the I exist is not simply its clarity and distinctness, but its super-indubitability— itself underwritten by a dependence argument. The exchange between Descartes and Gassendi produces an excep- tionally clear...

... and positions as interesting in their own right. The philosophers who receive the most sustained attention are, in chronological order, Scotus, Ockham, Nicholas of Autrecourt (notable as an atomist in the heyday of Aristotelianism), Buridan, Nicole Oresme, Suárez, Hobbes, Gassendi, Descartes, Boyle, and Locke...

...: Lexington Books. xiv + 204 pp. Lolordo, Antonia. 2007. Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 283 pp. MacBride, Fraser. 2006. Identity and Modality. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Clarendon. x + 268 pp...

... uncriticized, even by his fellow mechanists. Gassendi, for instance, challenged Descartes’s claim to have distinctly perceived the wax itself through the mind: Besides the color, the shape, the fact that it can melt, etc., we conceive that there is something that is the subject of the accidents...

... are distinct from substances, then substances are unknowable too. Thus, Gassendi wrote: “Although it is granted that a common subject or substance exists, it nevertheless remains veiled, nor can we either understand or say what sort of thing it is, except through what affects it and what lies open...

... in usage seems to have occurred some time in the seventeenth century. Thus, Walter Charleton (1654, 126), following Gassendi, in a vein that will subsequently become typical, writes: By the Quality of any Concretion, we understand in the General, no more but that kind of Apparence...

..., Gassendi, and Boyle, inspired many thinkers to adopt a particular view of per- ception. Convinced that many properties we seem to detect-colors, tastes, odors, for example-could not be “in the objects themselves,” they introduced intermediate entities as “proper objects” of percep- tion...

... parts. Pasnau finds this tendency in Basso, Gassendi, and Boyle; it is not implausible to attribute it to Descartes as well. 38. This constitutionalist reading of the Synopsis passage is compatible with the alternative, noncausal interpretations of Descartes's characterization of substance...