Add to ORKGThe 17th century saw an enormous amount of energy dedicated to the question of whether matter can think. This paper follows certain strands of this debate in Descartes, Locke, Leibniz and Spinoza. These strands of the debate are still relevant today
Descartes, the textbooks say, divided human beings, or at least their minds, from the natural world....
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) is considered the founder of modern philosophy. Profoundly influenced b...
In this paper, I argue that, if a common form of materialism is true, I cannot know my own thoughts,...
A survey of the issue. Topics include Descartes; early critics of Descartes; occasionalism and pre-e...
Early modern debates about the nature of matter interacted with debates about whether matter could t...
This article calls into question the notion that seventeenth-century authors such as Descartes and L...
A post-Newtonian understanding of matter includes immaterial forces; thus, the concept of ‘physical’...
This paper examines the importance of the theory of intellectual cognition in the development of ear...
The chapter focuses on attributions of the transparency of thought to early modern figures, most not...
Two stories have dominated the historiography of early modern philosophy: one in which a seventeenth...
Descartes, the textbooks say, divided human beings, or at least their minds, from the natural world....
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) is considered the founder of modern philosophy. Profoundly influenced b...
In this paper, I argue that, if a common form of materialism is true, I cannot know my own thoughts,...
A survey of the issue. Topics include Descartes; early critics of Descartes; occasionalism and pre-e...
Early modern debates about the nature of matter interacted with debates about whether matter could t...
This article calls into question the notion that seventeenth-century authors such as Descartes and L...
A post-Newtonian understanding of matter includes immaterial forces; thus, the concept of ‘physical’...
This paper examines the importance of the theory of intellectual cognition in the development of ear...
The chapter focuses on attributions of the transparency of thought to early modern figures, most not...
Two stories have dominated the historiography of early modern philosophy: one in which a seventeenth...
Descartes, the textbooks say, divided human beings, or at least their minds, from the natural world....
Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) is considered the founder of modern philosophy. Profoundly influenced b...
In this paper, I argue that, if a common form of materialism is true, I cannot know my own thoughts,...