Why does Descartes say that he is not his body in the second meditation?

Abstract

This paper contests a standard interpretation of how Descartes comes to the conclusion that he is not his body in the second meditation. I propose an alternative interpretation in its place.

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

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

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

My notes

Similar books and articles

Starting with Descartes.C. G. Prado - 2009 - Continuum.
Descartes on mind-body interaction.Daniel Holbrook - 1992 - Southwest Philosophical Studies 14:74-83.
What Descartes Did Not Know.Kristoffer Ahlstrom - 2010 - Journal of Value Inquiry 44 (3):297-311.
Descartes' resolution of the dreaming doubt.Brad Chynoweth - 2010 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 91 (2):153-179.
Mind-body dualism and the Harvey-Descartes controversy.Geoffrey Gorham - 1994 - Journal of the History of Ideas 55 (2):211-234.
The first meditation and the senses.Marleen Rozemond - 1996 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (1):21 – 52.
Meditations on first Philosophy. Second Meditation: The nature of the Human Mind, and How It is Better Known than the Body, and Sixth Meditation: The Existence of Material Things, and the Real Distinction between Mind and Body. Reproduced from Descartes (1985).René Descartes - 2002 - In David J. Chalmers (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings. Oxford University Press. pp. 10--21.
Descartes's substance dualism and his independence conception of substance.Gonzalo Rodríguez Pereyra - 2008 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (1):69-89.
Decartes' dualism.Gordon P. Baker - 2002 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Katherine J. Morris.
Cartesian Doubt and Metaphysics.Jason Costanzo - 2015 - In David G. Murray & Yónatan M. P. Ereira (eds.), Proceedings of the 5th World Conference in Metaphysics), Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca. pp. 0.
Descartes on the Power of "Ideas".Stephen I. Wagner - 1996 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 13 (3):287 - 297.
Descartes passions of the soul and the union of mind and body.Lisa Shapiro - 2003 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 85 (3):211-248.

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-06-15

Downloads
9,502 (#391)

6 months
1,040 (#955)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Meditations on first philosophy: with selections from the Objections and Replies.René Descartes - 1960 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by John Cottingham & Bernard Williams.
Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections From the Objections and Replies.René Descartes - 1960 - Cambridge, England: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by John Cottingham & Bernard Williams.
The philosophy of mind.Peter Smith & Jones O. R. - 1986 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by O. R. Jones.
The Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction.Peter Smith & O. R. Jones - 1986 - New York: Cambridge University Press. Edited by O. R. Jones.

View all 7 references / Add more references