Descartes' philosophical revolution

a reassessment

Hanoch Ben-Yami

Palgrave Macmillan

2015

Abstract

Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.

Cited authors

Descartes René