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Actus purus
Agent causation
Apprehension (understanding)
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Author_James E. McGuire
Author_Peter Machamer
Axiom
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Causa sui
Causal model
Causal reasoning
Causality
Concept
Conceptions of God
Conceptualism
Consciousness
Contingency (philosophy)
Cosmological argument
Dualism (philosophy of mind)
Epistemology
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Essence
Ex nihilo
Existence
Existence of God
Explanation
Foundationalism
Four causes
God
Good and evil
Idealism
Immutability (theology)
Individuation
Intentionality
Ipso facto
Materialism
Mutual exclusion
Natural law
Neoplatonism
Nominalism
Nous
Objectivity (philosophy)
Occam's razor
Occasionalism
Omnipotence
Omniscience
Ontological argument
Ontology
Pantheism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Physics (Aristotle)
Pineal gland
Potentiality and actuality
Principle
Reality
Reason
Received view
Scholasticism
Secondary causation
Self-evidence
Sophistication
Stoicism
Teleology
The Concept of Mind
The Mind of God
Theory
Theory of Forms
Thought
Trialism
Truth
Truth claim
Unmoved mover
Wax argument
Wilfrid Sellars
Product details
- ISBN 9780691138893
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture of the development of Cartesian science, epistemology, and metaphysics. No changes in Descartes's thought are more significant than those that occur between the major works The World (1633) and Principles of Philosophy (1644). Often seen as two versions of the same natural philosophy, these works are in fact profoundly different, containing distinct conceptions of causality and epistemology.
Machamer and McGuire trace the implications of these changes and others that follow from them, including Descartes's rejection of the method of abstraction as a means of acquiring knowledge, his insistence on the infinitude of God's power, and his claim that human knowledge is limited to that which enables us to grasp the workings of the world and develop scientific theories.
Peter Machamer is professor of history and philosophy of science and associate director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. J. E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a resident fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science.
