书目名称 | Rethinking Descartes’s Substance Dualism |
编辑 | Lynda Gaudemard |
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概述 | Presents a new interpretation of Descartes’s philosophy of mind.Is the first new defence of a new version of emergent substance dualism.Is significant for the historical development of Descartes‘s as |
丛书名称 | Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind |
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描述 | .This monograph presents an interpretation of Descartes‘s dualism, which differs from the standard reading called ‘classical separatist dualism‘ claiming that the mind can exist without the body. It argues that, contrary to what it is commonly claimed, Descartes’s texts suggest an emergent creationist substance dualism, according to which the mind is a nonphysical substance (created and maintained by God), which cannot begin to think without a well-disposed body. According to this interpretation, God’s laws of nature endow each human body with the power to be united to an immaterial soul. While the soul does not directly come from the body, the mind can be said to emerge from the body in the sense that it cannot be created by God independently from the body. The divine creation of a human mind requires a well-disposed body, a physical categorical basis. This kind of emergentism is consistent with creationism and does not necessarily entail that the mind cannot survive the body. .This early modern view has some connections with Hasker’s substance emergent dualism (1999). Indeed, Hasker states that the mind is a substance emerging at one time from neurons and that consciousness has c |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Descartes Substance Dualism; Descartes Philosophy of Mind; Descartes Mind; Descartes Imagination; Descar |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75414-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-75416-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-75414-3Series ISSN 1573-5834 Series E-ISSN 2542-9922 |
issn_series | 1573-5834 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |