- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I. From Methodology of Science to Philosophy of Mind
- 1. The Early Writings
- 2. The Regulae ad directionem ingenii and the Quest for Certainty
- 3. Intuition, Method, and Its Application to the Mind
- 4. New Suppositions in Cognitive Psychology and an Old Metaphor
- 5. The Objects Known
- 6. The Method and Its Application
- 7. “A Little Grander Project”: From Methodology to Metaphysics
- 8. A New Foundation of Physics: God’s Creation of Eternal Truths
- II. The Mind as Embodied: A True and Substantial Union
- 1. Three Perspectives on the Mind and the Body
- 2. The Mind–Body Union and Its Conceivability
- 3. Privileged Access, Indubitability, and Introspection
- 4. The Pure Mind and the Embodied Mind
- 5. Three Primary Notions: Extension, Thought, and Mind–Body Union
- 6. Clear and Distinct versus Obscure and Confused Thoughts
- 7. Knowing Our Mental States: Inconceivability or Indeterminacy?
- 8. The Limits of Cartesian Dualism
- III. Thought, Consciousness, and Language
- 1. Mind and Consciousness
- 2. Propositional Thoughts and Sensations
- 3. Sensory Awareness and Perceptual Judgments
- 4. Human Thought and Artificial Intelligence
- 5. Transparency and Immanent Reflexivity
- 6. Thought, Language, and Normativity
- IV. Intentionality and the Representative Nature of Ideas
- 1. Ideas as Acts and Ideas as Objects
- 2. Ideas and Images
- 3. Likeness, Similarity, Identity
- 4. Objective Reality and Possible Being
- 5. Degrees of Objective Reality
- 6. Objective Reality and the Veil-of-Ideas
- 7. The Problem of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition
- V. Sensory Perceptions, Beliefs, and Material Falsity
- 1. Impressions, Ideas, and Representations in the Early Work
- 2. “Idea” in the Later Work: The Problematic Intentionality of Sensations
- 3. Judgment, Truth, and Falsity in Sensory Perception
- 4. Material Falsity
- VI. Passions and Embodied Intentionality
- 1. The Context and Novelty of Descartes’s Approach to the Passions
- 2. Passions as a Subclass of Thoughts
- 3. Actions and Passions
- 4. The Functions Attributed to the Body
- 5. The Functions of the Soul and Perceptions Referred to the Soul in Particular
- 6. The Psycho-Physiology of Passions
- 7. Representing and Referring Passions to the Soul
- 8. The Function and Classification of Passions
- 9. The Institution of Nature as the Key to the Mastery of Passions
- 10. Reason versus Passions
- VII. Free Will and Virtue
- 1. From Conflicts of Soul to Conflicts of Will
- 2. The Elements and Antecedents of Descartes’s Moral Psychology
- 3. Voluntary Agency, Assent, and Will
- 4. Reason as the Power of Judging Well
- 5. Descartes’s Notion of a Free Will
- 6. From Free Decision to Free Will: Medieval Debates about Agency
- 7. Toward a Non-naturalistic Account of Moral Agency
- 8. Interpreting Descartes’s Voluntarism
- 9. Generosity: The Passion of Virtue
- Notes
- Index
Descartes's Concept of Mind
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