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The 17th Century: Reaction to the Dualism of Mind and Body The 18th Century: Mind, Matter, and Monism The 19th Century: Mind and Brain Mind, Brain, and Adaptation: the Localization of Cerebral Function ... Trance and Trauma: Functional Nervous Disorders and the Subconscious Mind De homine was completed in Holland about 1633, on the eve of the condemnation of Galileo. When Descartes' friend and frequent correspondent, Marin Mersenne, wrote to him of Galileo's fate at the hands of the Inquisition, Descartes immediately suppressed his own treatise. As a result, the world's first extended essay on physiological psychology was published only well after its author's death. In this work, Descartes proposed a mechanism [see figure 2] for automatic reaction in response to external events. According to his proposal, external motions affect the peripheral ends of the nerve fibrils , which in turn displace the central ends. As the central ends are displaced, the pattern of interfibrillar space is rearranged and the flow of animal spirits is thereby directed into the appropriate nerves. It was Descartes' articulation of this mechanism for automatic, differentiated reaction that led to his generally being credited with the founding of reflex theory.

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Descartes, Rene (1596-1650) French philosopher and natural scientist. He is often said to be father of modern philosophy. Descartes shifts attention from the question of what is the nature of what we know, to can I know anything at all for sure? The legacy of this is that modern philosophy effectively still deals with problems set by Descartes. In terms of scientific achievements he is the first to provide full world picture to challenge (and replace) Scholasticism . It is a fully mechanistic schema - including biological phenomena. par excellence of dualism , but contemporary scholarship is presently engaged in the task of trying to separate the man and his ideas from the caricature that has been assembled of him in the history of Western philosophy. He was schooled at a Jesuit college called La Fleche , after this he joined the army and travelled around Europe. He had a revelation in 'well heated room' and decided to take up philosophy in a serious manner. Legend tells of his habit to meditate in bed until noon. In 1649, he took up a position with Queen Christina in Stockholm, but died of pneumonia. Le Monde Contributed by: Richard P Whaite Related Topics: Philosophy Search for Descartes, Rene (1596-1650)

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Rene Descartes While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of Rene Descartes (1596-1650) , French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body relationship. Descartes was born in Touraine, in the small town of La Haye and educated from the age of eight at the Jesuit college of La Fleche. At La Flèche, Descartes formed the habit of spending the morning in bed, engaged in systematic meditation. During his meditations, he was struck by the sharp contrast between the certainty of mathematics and the controversial nature of philosophy, and came to believe that the sciences could be made to yield results as certain as those of mathematics. From 1612, when he left La Fleche, until 1628, when he settled in Holland, Descartes spent much of his time in travel, contemplation, and correspondence.

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René Descartes, 1596-1650 Because Descartes is clearly one of the most celebrated intellects in the western intellectual tradition, you will find a great deal of information about him on the Internet. For biographical details, be sure to consult the relevant articles at the MacTutor , Clodius Piat's discussion in The Catholic Encyclopedia and a short piece at the ILTweb Study Place . The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an excellent and very thorough article about Descartes. The Galileo Project at Rice University also contains an important Descartes " fact sheet ." And don't forget to read W. W. Rouse Ball's essay on Descartes from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th ed., 1908). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes on essay on Descartes' epistemology and at Bryn Mawr you can find the essay, René Descartes and the Legacy of Mind/Body Dualism We are indeed fortunate that some thoughtful soul has made the Discourse on Method available in HTML format. The

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(1596 to 1650) CONTENTS Descartes: An Overview His Life and Works His Major Ideas His Legacy Links to Descartes' Writingsand More Information DESCARTES: AN OVERVIEW But in any case, what he came up with in his musings was the idea that the world "out there" was essentially a mechanical device that worked according to fixed rules of motion. Events occurred as the result of impacts among the various bodies that are in constant motion within this "machine." The machine itself is devoid of soul or vitality of its own. It simply responds to the "laws" of motion in a mathematical way. But that left the question of the human soul and willand the divine soul and will. Where do we fit in? Are we merely elements of this mechanical world? Is God merely an element of the mechanical world? To Descartes the answer was clearly a "no" to both questions. But in affirming our own vitalityand God'sDescartes was forced to separate the human soul (and God's) from that soul-less mechanical creation "out there." Fine. But how then were we connected to that worldexcept as removed observers? Where was our ancient sense of unity with all creation? Where in fact did that leave us in relation to Godand to each other? Those questions were never adequately answered. The human soul seemed to be left cut adrift by what was considered a very compelling philosophical statementone which swept powerfully through the philosophical circles of Europe in those days.

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RENE DESCARTES "I think, therefore I am." INTRODUCTION Rene Descartes was one of the greatest philosophers of the Renaissance period. BACKGROUND Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596, in a small town in France called La Haye. He attended the college of Henri IV in La Fleche at the age of 10 and he left La Fleche in 1614 to study civil and cannon law at Poitiers. He received baccalaureate and licentiate degrees in law in 1616, and in 1618 he joined the army of Prince Maurice. Between 1628 and 1649 he led a quiet scholarly life. He produced most of his philosophical writings within this period. Rene Descartes died in Sweden in the year 1650. ACCOMPLISHMENTS Rene Descartes was a respected philosopher, scientist and mathematician. He used new methods of investigating nature and he invented analytic geometry. He was the first philosopher to describe the physical universe in terms of matter and motion. He created three major works: Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.

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THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL ARTICLE VII A Brief Explanation of the Parts of the Body and Some of its Functions each circuit which it makes in the body. We further know that all the movements of the members depend on the muscles, and that these muscles are so mutually related one to another that when the one is contracted it draws toward itself the part of the body to which it is attached, which causes the opposite muscle at the same time to become elongated; then if at another time it happens that this last contracts, it causes the former to become elongated and it draws back to itself the part to which they are attached. We know finally that all these movements of the muscles, as also all the senses, depend on the nerves, which resemble small filaments, or little tubes which all proceed from the brain, and thus contain like it a certain very subtle air or wind which is called the animal spirits. ARTICLE VIII What is the Principle of All These Functions? But it is not usually, known in what way these animal spirits and these nerves contribute to the movements and to the senses, nor what is the corporeal principle which causes them to act. That is why, although I have already made some mention of them in my other writings, 1 shall not here omit to say shortly that so long as we live there is a continua heat in our heart, which is a species of fire which the blood of the vein there maintains, and that this fire is the corporeal principle of all the movements of our members.

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Rene Descartes Philosopher and Mathematician French Descartes was a "jack of all trades", making major contributions to the areas of anatomy, cognitive science, optics, mathematics and philosophy. Underlying his methodology is the belief that all science is based on mathematics. This is manifested in his unification of ancient geometry and his new alegbra based on the Cartesian coodinate system. For Descartes, certainty in philosphy and in mathematics is gained through understanding. We may know that two apples and two apples makes four apples, but Descartes believes that matematics transcends the senses, contributing to an overall mathematical order to the universe that is independent of senses. Senses were at the center of his Meditations on First Philosphy , a work in which Descartes explores the concepts of self, God and mind. He begins by shaking our belief in the sneses; if they are all an illusion created by a malicious deceiver, what can we trust? His answer is that we can doubt, and that the deceiver cannot cause us to doubt our own existence. Thus, the famous "cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am). However, the I is not a physical "i", is is an immaterial mind that is identified by "I". Thus begins Cartesian Dualism, the theory that there are two fundamental types of entities : mind and matter. The physical bodies exists extended in space, with depth, width and breadth. However, minds are entirely immaterial and nonspatial; they are the "I" he refers to. Since the mind is the only entity that can think (rocks cannot), Descartes uses the cogito arguemnt to prove the existence of a mind.

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Home Authors Titles Keyword Search ... Reference Rene Descartes French rationalist philosopher and mathematician, "the father of modern philosophy," born at La Haye, near tours; trained at the Jesuit College at La Fleche, he remained a Roman Catholic throughout his life but soon became dissatisfied with scholasticism. While serving in the Bavarian army in 1619, he became convinced that it was his calling to refound human knowledge on a basis secure from skepticism. He expounded this idea in his most famous work, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy , 1641). He began his inquiry by claiming that while one can doubt all the experiences of one's senses and the fruits of one's reason, one cannot doubt one's own existence as a thinking being, summarized in the Latin expression for which Descartes is famous: Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am). From this basis he argued that God must exist and cannot be a deceiver, therefore it is possible to discern truth through one's senses (a fundamental premise of rationalism). Descartes also argued that mind and body are distinct substances, believing that this dualism made possible human freedom and immortality. These ideas are seen in his Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verita dans les sciences

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Home Authors Titles Keyword Search ... Rene Descartes SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY OF RENE DESCARTES TRANSLATED BY JOHN VEITCH, LL. D., LATE PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW CONTENTS LETTER OF THE AUTHOR TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY SERVING FOR A PREFACE. TO THE MOST SERENE PRINCESS, ELIZABETH, ELDEST DAUGHTER OF FREDERICK, KING OF BOHEMIA, COUNT PALATINE, AND ELECTOR OF THE SACRED ROMAN EMPIRE. PART I. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. PART II. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF MATERIAL THINGS. ... PART IV. OF THE EARTH. From the Publisher's Preface. The present volume contains a reprint of the preface and the first part of the Principles of Philosophy, together with selections from the second, third and fourth parts of that work, corresponding to the extracts in the French edition of Gamier, are also given, as well as an appendix containing part of Descartes' reply to the Second Objections (viz., his formal demonstrations of the existence of Deity). The translation is based on the original Latin edition of the Principles, published in 1644. The work had been translated into French during Descartes' lifetime, and personally revised and corrected by him, the French text is evidently deserving of the same consideration as the Latin originals, and consequently, the additions and variations of the French version have also been giventhe additions being put in square brackets in the text and the variations in the footnotes.

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Eesti keelde ümber pandud väljaandest Descartes meditations metaphysiques (Pariis, 1979) Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Kronoloogia 1596-1618: õpingute käik (31.märts): Rene Descartes sünnib La Haye’s alevikus, mis asub Poitou ja Touraine’i piiril (millest sai 1802.aastal La Haye-Descartes ja 1967.aastal Descartes. Tema isa, arsti poeg, oli Bretagne parlamendinõunik. : Ema surm. Tema isa abiellub kolm aastat hiljem uuesti. Rene kasvas La Haye’s vanaema juures. : Jesuiitide kolleegiumi rajamine Henri IV poolt La Fleche’i. Descartes alustab siin oma õpinguid 1604.aasta (daatum, mille toob ära tema biograaf Baillet) ja 1607.aasta vahel. Siin läbib ta kaheksa või üheksa aasta jooksul õpingute täiskursuse. : Henri IV tapetakse. Tema süda viiakse üle La Fleche’i kolleegiumisse. Galilei avastab tänu astronoomilisele pikksilmale Jupiteri kaaslased. Seda sündmust tähistatakse 1611.aastal La Fleche’i kolleegiumis. : Bakalaureaat ja diplom õigusteaduses Poitiers’ist. 1618-28: Siia-sinna maailmas : Descartes astub sõjaväkke saamaks sõjalist koolitust protestantlikus, Hollandi riigihoidja Nassau Maurice’i

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