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  1. Descartes’s Theory of Mind.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and convincing rereading, undoing the received perception of Descartes as the chief defender of mind/body dualism. For Clarke, the key is to interpret his philosophical efforts as an attempt to reconcile his scientific pursuits with the theologically orthodox views of (...)
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    Occult powers and hypotheses: Cartesian natural philosophy under Louis XIV.Desmond M. Clarke - 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This book analyses the concept of scientific explanation developed by French disciples of Descartes in the period 1660-1700. Clarke examines the views of authors such as Malebranche and Rohault, as well as those of less well-known authors such as Cordemoy, Gadroys, Poisson and R'egis. These Cartesian natural philosophers developed an understanding of scientific explanation as necessarily hypothetical, and, while they contributed little to new scientific discoveries, they made a lasting contribution to our concept of explanation--generations of scientists in subsequent centuries (...)
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    Descartes: A Biography.Desmond M. Clarke - 2006 - Cambridge University Press.
    René Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and (...)
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  4. Descartes. A Biography.Desmond M. Clarke - 2007 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (2):386-386.
    René Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and (...)
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    Descartes' Philosophy of Science.Desmond M. Clarke - 1982 - Manchester: Pennsylvania State University Press.
    This major new study of Descartes explores a number of key issues, including his use of experience and reason in science; the metaphysical foundations of Cartesian science; the Cartesian concept of explanation and proof; and an empiricist interpretation of the _Regulae_ and the _Discourse_. Dr. Clarke argues that labels such as empiricism and rationalism are useless for understanding Descartes because, at least in his scientific methodology, he is very much an Aristotelian for whom reflection on ordinary experience is the primary (...)
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  6. Descarten Theory of Mind.Desmond M. Clarke - 2005 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 67 (1):187-188.
    Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and convincing rereading, undoing the received perception of Descartes as the chief defender of mind/body dualism. For Clarke, the key is to interpret his philosophical efforts as an attempt to reconcile his scientific pursuits with the theologically orthodox views of (...)
     
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    Hypotheses.Desmond M. Clarke - 2011 - In Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This article thinks about changes in the conception of hypothesis during the early modern period. It explains that during this period there was an urgency to redefine human knowledge so that uncertainty became one of its inevitable and acceptable features, and certainty was replaced by probability as an adequate achievement in knowledge of the natural world. It discusses Isaac Newton's deep-seated rejection of hypotheses and the assumption that their use in natural philosophy would compromise its status as genuine scientific knowledge.
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    The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century.Desmond M. Clarke - 2013 - Oxford University Press UK.
    Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations, from French and Latin, of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of men and women: Marie le Jars de Gournay's The Equality of Men and Women, Anna Maria van Schurman's Dissertation, and François Poulain de la Barre's Physical and Moral Discourse concerning the Equality of Both Sexes. These works transformed the language and conceptual framework in which questions about women's equality were subsequently discussed. This edition includes new translations, from (...)
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    Locke and French Materialism.Desmond M. Clarke - 1992 - Philosophical Quarterly 42 (166):109-111.
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  10. The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe.Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.) - 2011 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century.
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    Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics.Desmond M. Clarke - 1982 - Philosophical Books 23 (2):82-84.
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    (1 other version)Descartes' Use of "Demonstration" and "Deduction".Desmond M. Clarke - 1977 - Modern Schoolman 54 (4):333-344.
  13. Malebranche and occasionalism: A reply to Steven Nadler.Desmond M. Clarke - 1995 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (3):499-504.
    In Malebranche's account of occasional causality, God exercises his general will with respect to every event that merits a causal explanation. Nadler distinguishes two pictures of God's involvement; (1) there are as many distinct acts of God's will as there are causal events to be explained; (2) God's will is exercised once only, when the natural order of causes is created. I argue that Malebranche's concept of God is inconsistent with a real distinction between God and acts of his will, (...)
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    The Epistemology of Religious Belief.Desmond M. Clarke - 2011 - In Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This article examines the epistemological aspects of religious belief in early modern Europe. It suggests that the most prominent feature of Christian creeds during this period was their plurality and mutual inconsistency and that efforts to address this issue focused on the capacity of our natural cognitive faculties to limit the scope of faith and to establish the authenticity and meaning of documents that were said to have been inspired by God. It was widely accepted that the probability of any (...)
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    Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays.Desmond M. Clarke - 1981 - Philosophical Books 22 (1):12-14.
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    French Philosophy, 1572–1675.Desmond M. Clarke - 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
    Desmond M. Clarke presents a thematic history of French philosophy from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of Louis XIV's reign. While the traditional philosophy of the schools was taught throughout this period by authors who have faded into permanent obscurity, a whole generation of writers who were not professional philosophers--some of whom never even attended a school or college--addressed issues that were prominent in French public life. Clarke explores such topics as the novel political theory espoused (...)
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    Causation and Liability in Tort Law.Desmond M. Clarke - 2014 - Jurisprudence 5 (2):217-243.
    Many recent decisions in tort law attempt to combine two conceptually incommensurable features: a traditional 'but for' test of factual causation, and the scientific or medical evidence that is required to explain how some injury occurred. Even when applied to macroscopic objects, the 'but for' test fails to identify causes, because it merely rephrases in the language of possible worlds what may be inferred from what is inductively known about the actual world. Since scientific theories explain the occurrence of events (...)
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    Descartes' Proof of the Existence of Matter.Desmond M. Clarke - 2006 - In Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 160–178.
    This chapter contains section titled: Matter in the World Extension as a Property of Matter “Body” in the Meditations Body as Non‐Mind Basic Concepts A Proof of the Existence of Bodies Cartesian Limitations.
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    (1 other version)Acting According to Conscience.Desmond M. Clarke - 1987 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 22:135-149.
    We have inherited from the history of moral philosophy two very different proposals about how we ought to behave. According to one view, we are required to do what is morally right; on the alternative formulation, we are required to do what we believe to be morally right. Unless these twin demands on our moral decision-making can be made to coincide by definition, it is inevitable that in some cases our beliefs about what is morally right may be mistaken. In (...)
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    A New Basis for Moral Philosophy.Desmond M. Clarke - 1987 - Philosophical Books 28 (1):41-42.
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    Berkeley: Philosophical Writings.Desmond M. Clarke - 2009 - Cambridge University Press.
    George Berkeley was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies associated with the Scientific Revolution. Accordingly, he argued against scepticism and atheism in the Principles and the Three Dialogues; he rejected theories of force in the Essay on Motion; he offered a new theory of meaning for religious language in Alciphron; and he modified his earlier (...)
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    Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol.1.Desmond M. Clarke - 1974 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 23:248-254.
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    Church and State: Essays in Political Philosophy.Desmond M. Clarke - 1984
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    Cartesian Explanation.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Descartes argued that the model for genuine explanation is provided by natural philosophy and that scholastic theories that appeal to substantial forms or real qualities are pseudo‐explanations. Thus, one cannot explain mental acts by reference to a mental substance. The intractability of mind–body interaction illustrates the limits of our explanatory success to date.
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    Church, State and Society.Desmond M. Clarke - 1986 - Irish Philosophical Journal 3 (1):58-79.
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    Descartesova filozofija znanosti in znanstvena revolucija.Desmond M. Clarke - 1996 - Filozofski Vestnik 17 (3).
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    Dormitive Powers and Scholastic Qualities: A Reply to Hutchison.Desmond M. Clarke - 1993 - History of Science 31 (3):317-327.
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    Describing Thought: The Subjective View.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Any explanation of human mental operations requires an adequate description of what is to be explained. Descartes devotes much of his work to describing characteristic features of human mental activity, such as the transparency of consciousness, the intentionality of thought, and the human capacity for abstraction that makes possible a form of thinking that is so independent of images that it may be called ‘pure’.
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    Descartes's Use of the Concept of Substance.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Cartesian substances are ultimate subjects of predication, not things in themselves apart from their properties. Our knowledge of substances is limited to knowledge of their qualities. Since the concept of a material substance cannot explain anything about the properties of material things, so likewise the concept of an immaterial substance cannot explain anything about the mind or God. Substances may be combined if their properties are compatible.
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  30. Explanation, consciousness, and cartesian dualism.Desmond M. Clarke - 2002 - In R.E. Auxier & L.E. Hahn (eds.), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene. La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. pp. 29--471.
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    Exorcising Ryle's Ghost from Cartesian Metaphysics.Desmond M. Clarke - 2001 - Philosophical Inquiry 23 (3-4):27-36.
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  32. George Berkeley: Philosophical Writings.Desmond M. Clarke (ed.) - 2008 - Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Human Language.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Natural signs that express emotions, such as laughing or crying, are not limited to human animals. For Descartes, even machines could learn and use a limited language for responding, predictably, to stimuli. The flexibility provided by conventional signs, by abstraction, and by its associated rationality allows for unpredictable responses to stimuli.
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    Introduction.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
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    Imagination and Memory.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Descartes explains memory and imagination, as ideas, by patterns in the flow of animal spirits through the brain that are caused by traces of former sensations or by other bodily conditions that are more active when we sleep or daydream. Despite the contrast with intuition, imagination constructs reliable images of perceptual phenomena, by synthesizing incoming signals from different senses.
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    Innate Ideas.Desmond M. Clarke - 1975 - Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 24:52-63.
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  37. Jennifer Trusted "Physics and Metaphysics".Desmond M. Clarke - 1993 - Humana Mente:387.
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    Property Dualism.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Mental and material qualities co‐exist in human beings. Descartes could not provide any account of how they co‐exit in the same subject and could not therefore support an identity theory. The property dualism with which he concludes is not a metaphysical theory but an indication of the limits of his explanatory project. The source of the problem is the Cartesian theory of matter and the undeveloped state neurology.
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  39. Physique et métaphysique chez Descartes.Desmond M. Clarke - 1980 - Archives de Philosophie 43 (3):465.
     
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    Passions of the Soul.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    The Cartesian explanation of emotions relies on the theory of animal spirits that is central to his account of sensation and a hypothesis about innate desires and aversions. Emotions are the distinctive feelings we experience in response to the apparent perception of things that satisfy or frustrate our natural desires. These feelings, similar to internal sensations, correspond systematically to patterns in the flow of animal spirits from the heart to the brain.
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    Pierre-Sylvain Régis: A Paradigm of Cartesian Methodology.Desmond M. Clarke - 1980 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 62 (3):289-310.
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    Sensation: Ideas as Brain Patterns.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    The Cartesian explanation of sensation includes a speculative account of how external and internal phenomena transmit information to the brain by triggering flows of animal spirits from the pineal gland. The distinctive patterns in the flow of spirits are called ‘ideas’. There is no reason to think that ideas resemble the realities that cause them. All animals have sensations in this sense, and exhibit corresponding behaviour.
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    The Ambiguous Role of Experience in Cartesian Science.Desmond M. Clarke - 1976 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1976:151 - 164.
    Descartes' methodology is ambiguous about the role of empirical evidence in science. This ambiguity does not derive from Rationalist qualms about the specifically empirical character of such evidence; for the apparant clash of experience and reason is explained by the need to re-interpret perceptions in terms of new theories, and by the frequently "contaminated" status of so-called experimental evidence. The ambiguity results, rather, from: (a) Descartes' predilection for "ordinary experience" rather than experiments as a source of warrant, and (b) the (...)
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    Two approaches to reading the historical Descartes.Desmond M. Clarke - 2009 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (3):601 – 616.
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    The Concept of Experience in Descartes' Theory of Knowledge.Desmond M. Clarke - 1976 - Studia Leibnitiana 8 (1):18 - 39.
    Nach der üblichen Interpretation löst der Rationalist Descartes empirische Fragen durch einen Rekurs auf die Evidenz der Vernunft, wobei er dieser den Vorzug gegenüber offensichtlich widersprechenden Erfahrungstatsachen einräumt. Dieser Aufsatz stellt 1. einige relevante Züge der Cartesischen Theorie des Subjekts des Erfahrungswissens dar; 2. untersucht er die Vielfalt der Bedeutungen, in denen Descartes das Wort expérience gebraucht, und 3. sucht er zu zeigen, daß die Texte, in denen Descartes behauptet, er ziehe die Vernunft der Erfahrung vor, in Übereinstimmung mit 1. (...)
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    The Ethics of Religious Toleration.Desmond M. Clarke - 2013 - Jurisprudence 4 (1):151-157.
    A review of Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter.
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  47. Thomas L. Lennon, John M. Nicholas and John W. Davis, eds., Problems of Cartesianism Reviewed by.Desmond M. Clarke - 1984 - Philosophy in Review 4 (5):201-202.
  48. The Role of Experience in Descartes' Scientific Method.Desmond M. Clarke - 1974 - Dissertation, University of Notre Dame
     
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    The Will as a Power of Self‐Determination.Desmond M. Clarke - 2003 - In Descartes’s Theory of Mind. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Since all events are caused, an action is said to be free if it is caused by a determining factor that is internal to the agent. Thus, freedom is not the same as indifference; human agents are more free when their choices are determined more clearly by the relevant evidence. Cartesian compatibilism relies on innate mind–body connections, on the ability to establish new mind–body connections by conditioning, and on the limited power of human agents to control some of their thoughts.
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    Introduction.Catherine Wilson & Desmond M. Clarke - 2011 - In Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This introductory article explains the coverage of this book, which is about the history of philosophy in Europe during the early modern period. This book explores the most important developments in the philosophy of the period as these are expounded both in texts that have since become very familiar and in other philosophical texts that are undeservedly less well-known. It attempts to make evident the fluid boundaries in the early modern period between deductions from experimental science and philosophical theory and (...)
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