{"product_id":"descartess-dualism-9780674009684","title":"Descartess Dualism","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescartes  an acknowledged founder of modern philosophy  is identified particularly with mind-body dualism--the view that the mind is an incorporeal entity. But this view was not entirely original with Descartes  and in fact to a significant extent it was widely accepted by the Aristotelian scholastics who preceded him  although they entertained a different conception of the nature of mind  body  and the relationship between them. In her first book  Marleen Rozemond explicates Descartess aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism.  Her approach includes discussion of central differences from and similarities to the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartess defense of the incorporeity of the mind and the mechanistic conception of body. Confronting the question of how  in his view  mind and body are united  she examines his defense of this union on the basis of sensation. In the course of her argument  she focuses on a few of the scholastics to whom Descartes referred in his own writings: Thomas Aquinas  Francisco Surez  Eustachius of St. Paul  and the Jesuits of Coimbra. This new systematic account of Descartess dualism amply demonstrates why he still deserves serious study and respect for his extraordinary philosophical achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789703372853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674009681","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674009684.jpg?v=1784695186","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/descartess-dualism-9780674009684","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}