LEADER 04569nam 2200685 450 001 9910460223903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-5745-6 010 $a1-4426-5557-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442657458 035 $a(CKB)3710000000324245 035 $a(EBL)3296714 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001403508 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12520821 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001403508 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11367228 035 $a(PQKB)10116285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669989 035 $a(CEL)449198 035 $a(OCoLC)903421422 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00211093 035 $a(DE-B1597)465625 035 $a(OCoLC)944178679 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442657458 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4669989 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256503 035 $a(OCoLC)904376530 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000324245 100 $a20160920h19971997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDescartes's legacy $eminds and meaning in early modern philosophy /$fDavid B. Hausman and Alan Hausman 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1997. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (163 p.) 225 1 $aToronto Studies in Philosophy 311 $a1-4426-2195-8 311 $a0-8020-0947-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Machines, Meaning, and the Theory of Ideas -- $t2. Descartes's Semantic Intentions -- $t3. The Secularity of the Meditations -- $t4. Is Hume the Cartesian Evil Demon? -- $t5. A New Approach to Berkeley's Ideal Reality -- $t6. Hume's Use of Illicit Substances -- $t7. Berkeley and the Argument from Perceptual Variation -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tName Index -- $tSubject Index 330 $aDebates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also animated some of the most important figures in early modern philosophy, among them Descartes, Hume, and Berkeley. The authors of Descartes's Legacy: Minds and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy use certain problems in contemporary information theory to elucidate the concerns of the early modern philosophers. This critical study attempts to uncover what was once called the logic of the theory of ideas, and to explore the questions it was meant to solve, given the limits of the ontological categories available. The authors begin their discussion of Descartes by examining his response to established models of perception in light of his understanding of the contemporary new science. Since Descartes proposed that any likeness between representation and the thing represented was unreliable, what was his solution to how an internal representation, an idea, gives us information? The authors' central claim is that Descartes's answer to the problem of how the mind knows matter involves a theory of 'intentional ideas.' This provocative divergence from recent discussions of Descartes's philosophy of mind, which have revolved around whether he is a 'realist' or a 'representationalist,' leads the authors to consider the idealism of Hume and Berkeley in light of Descartes's notion of the intentional. Hume and Berkeley, they maintain, explored alternatives to Descartes's conception, which led them to abandon traditional notions of meaning and truth. Descartes's Legacy concludes by suggesting that Descartes's picture can be reconciled with twentieth-century materialism, and asking whether the philosophy of mind can live without a primitive notion of the intentional.By shedding light on Descartes's crucial ontological innovation and on Hume's and Berkeley's reactions to it, the authors of Descartes's Legacy have repositioned early modern philosophy within a truly contemporary framework. 410 0$aToronto studies in philosophy. 606 $aIdea (Philosophy)$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of mind$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIdea (Philosophy)$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind$xHistory. 676 $a121.4 700 $aHausman$b David B.$0538958 702 $aHausman$b David$f1936- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460223903321 996 $aDescartes's legacy$92061844 997 $aUNINA