Göttliche Gedanken. Zur Metaphysik der Erkenntnis bei Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza und Leibniz

Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4):495-496 (2011)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In Göttliche Gedanken (Godly Thoughts), Andreas Schmidt provides an in-depth discussion of the metaphysics of knowledge and of mind in four early-modern rationalists: Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz. His topic overlaps with what is called “philosophy of mind” in contemporary Anglo-American circles, for he is quite interested in the relation between mind and body in these four historical thinkers. But as Schmidt effectively reminds us, the “mind-body problem” looks entirely different when embedded in the conceptual setting of the seventeenth century. In Schmidt’s reading, reflection on mind at that time begins with reflection on knowledge and our capacity to know. What must the mind be in order for us ..

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The unity of Descartes's man.Paul Hoffman - 1986 - Philosophical Review 95 (3):339-370.
Descartes and Malebranche on thought, sensation and the nature of the mind.Antonia LoLordo - 2005 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4):387-402.
Métaphysique et morale de Descartes à Kant.Léo Freuler - 1998 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 2:219-236.
The rationalists.John Cottingham - 1988 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Les enjeux de la publication en France des papiers de Leibniz sur Spinoza.P. -F. Moreau - 1988 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 93 (2):215 - 222.
Malebranche.Andrew Pyle - 2003 - New York: Routledge.
A note on Descartes and Spinoza.Jonathan Bennett - 1965 - Philosophical Review 74 (3):379-380.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-10-07

Downloads
306 (#60,347)

6 months
3 (#445,838)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

J. Thomas Cook
Rollins College

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references