Through The Eyes Of Descartes

Author : Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253068248

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Through the Eyes of Descartes by Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback Pdf

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination. In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : 0941736121

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Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes Pdf

Author : Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253068255

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Through the Eyes of Descartes by Cecilia Sjöholm,Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback Pdf

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of materials: his metaphysical writings and essays in natural philosophy, through to his letters, drawings, and printed images. Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback seek to bring Descartes into dialogue with contemporary phenomenology as well as contemporary psychoanalytic thought. They focus on how perception interacts with emotions and thought, and the way in which our gaze is directed toward limit-phenomena of beauty and fascination. In Through the Eyes of Descartes, Cecilia Sjöholm and Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback counter the traditional picture of Descartes by presenting his work in an entirely different light: a Descartes of the arts, of sensibility, of inner images, and of imagination.

Author : Paterson Mark Paterson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474405331

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Seeing with the Hands by Paterson Mark Paterson Pdf

A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see'Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind 'see'? Is the experience of being blind, as Descartes declared, like 'seeing with the hands'? What happens on the rare occasions when surgery allows previously blind people to see for the very first time? And how did evidence from early experimental surgery inform those philosophical debates about vision and touch? These questions and others were prompted by a question that the Irish scientist, Molyneux, asked an English philosopher, Locke, in 1688, but which was to have implications for British empiricism, French sensationism, and the beginnings of psychology that outlasted the long tail of the Enlightenment. Through an unfolding historical and philosophical narrative the book follows up responses to this question in Britain and France, and considers it as an early articulation of sensory substitution, the substitution of one sense (touch) for another (vision). This concept has influenced attitudes towards blindness, and technologies for the blind and vision impaired, to this day.Key FeaturesUnfolds the history of 'blindness' from 17th century that shades into the beginnings of psychologyQuestions the assumed centrality of vision and the eye in Enlightenment philosophy and scienceTraces the core idea of 'sensory substitution' from hypothetical speculations in the 17th century to present day technologies for the blind and vision impaired

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300067739

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Discourse on the Method by René Descartes Pdf

Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.

Author : Joseph Almog
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0195177193

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What Am I? by Joseph Almog Pdf

Almog decodes Descartes' argument for distinguishing between the human mind and body while maintaining their essential integration in a human being. His reading not only steers away from popular interpretations of the philosopher, but also represents a scholar coming to grips directly with Descartes himself.

Author : Desmond M. Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0199284946

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Descartes's Theory of Mind by Desmond M. Clarke Pdf

Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and convincing rereading, undoing the received perception of Descartes as the chief defender of mind/body dualism. For Clarke, the key is to interpret his philosophical efforts as an attempt to reconcile his scientific pursuits with the theologically orthodox views of his time.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840569

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Meditations, Objections, and Replies by René Descartes Pdf

This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Meteors
ISBN : 0521636469

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The World and Other Writings by René Descartes Pdf

Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, The Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, physical optics, and a cosmology, and The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from The Dioptrics and The Meteors, and the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141936062

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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by René Descartes Pdf

Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49.

Author : Janet Broughton,John Carriero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444337846

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A Companion to Descartes by Janet Broughton,John Carriero Pdf

A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work. Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent philosophers

Author : Karen Detlefsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521111607

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Descartes' Meditations by Karen Detlefsen Pdf

This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521358124

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Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings by René Descartes Pdf

Based on the new two volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of the writings.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052128807X

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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 by René Descartes Pdf

A completely new translation of the works of Descartes is intended to replace the Haldane and Ross edition, first published in 1911. All material from that edition is translated here, with a number of other texts crucial for understanding Cartesian philosophy.

Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307494801

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Descartes's Secret Notebook by Amir D. Aczel Pdf

René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible. But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, he kept a secret notebook, now lost, most of which was written in code. After Descartes’s death, Gottfried Leibniz, inventor of calculus and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, moved to Paris in search of this notebook–and eventually found it in the possession of Claude Clerselier, a friend of Descartes’s. Liebniz called on Clerselier and was allowed to copy only a couple of pages–which, though written in code, he amazingly deciphered there on the spot. Liebniz’s hastily scribbled notes are all we have today of Descartes’s notebook. Why did Descartes keep a secret notebook, and what were its contents? The answers to these questions will lead the reader on an exciting, swashbuckling journey, and offer a fascinating look at one of the great figures of Western culture.