Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy

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Glombíček, Petr (ed.) - Hill, J. (ed.)
Essays on the Concept of Mind in Early-Modern Philosophy.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 173 s. ISBN 978-1-4438-1918-3
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : Philosophy of Mind * early-modern philosophy
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

An important task for every major philosopher is to offer us an understanding of the nature of mind. The essays in this volume discuss different aspects of the philosophical theories of mind put forward in the century and a half that followed Descartes' "Meditationes" of 1641. These years, often reffered to as the 'early-modern period', are probably unparalleled for originality and diversity in conceiving the mind. The volume not only includes two essays on Descartes' own thinking, but there are also examinations of what Spinoza, Malebranche, Locke, Berkeley, Reid, the Cambridge Platonists, and others, have to say about the nature of mind.
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