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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463530603321

Autore

Waller Rebecca Lloyd

Titolo

Descartes' temporal dualism / / Rebecca Lloyd Waller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-7523-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (123 p.)

Disciplina

115.092

Soggetti

Time

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Pre-Cartesian Approaches to Time; Chapter Two: Time is Not (and Could Not Be) a Cartesian Substance; Chapter Three: Descartes' Temporal Dualism; Chapter Four: Two Temporal Attributes that are Ontologically on Par; Chapter Five: Temporal Dualism as an Elegant Solution; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Rebecca Lloyd Waller defends a temporal dualist interpretation of Descartes' account of time to directly engage and address common interpretive puzzles. </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Descartes' Temporal Dualism </span><span>offers a significant contribution to the understanding of an important, but frequently neglected component of Descartes' ontology. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>