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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788023703321

Autore

Cordemoy Géraud de <1626-1684, >

Titolo

Géraud de Cordemoy : six discourses on the distinction between the body and the soul and treatises on metaphysics / / translated with an introduction by Steven Nadler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-105585-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Disciplina

111.1

Soggetti

Mind and body

Substance (Philosophy) - History - 17th century

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 at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (originally published in French in 1666) offers an account of the mind and the body in a human being. Cordemoy is an unorthodox Cartesian who opts for an atomist conception of body and matter. In this groundbreaking treatise, he also presents one of theearliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation, with God serving as the true cause of bodily motions in the world and of ideas in the