Descartes on innate ideas

Descartes on innate ideas /

This book offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes' conception of innateness. The concept of innateness is central to Descartes' epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet understanding...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boyle, Deborah A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
Series:Continuum studies in philosophy.
Subjects:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650.
Innate ideas (Philosophy)
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Multiple Meanings of 'Innate Idea'
  • 1.1 Ambiguities in Descartes' Idea of 'Idea'
  • 1.2 The Dispositional Interpretation of Cartesian Innate Ideas
  • 1.3 A Unified Account of Cartesian Innate Ideas
  • 1.4 The Recollection Account
  • 1.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 2: Innate Ideas as Objects and Acts
  • 2.1 The Role of the Meditator's Nature
  • 2.2 Distinguishing the Innate from the Adventitious and the Factitious
  • 2.3 The Clarity and Distinctness of Innate Ideas
  • 2.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3: The Role of Reflection in Perceiving Innate Ideas
  • 3.1 The Reflective Account
  • 3.2 Attention, Reflection, and the Interference of the Body
  • 3.3 Applying the Reflective Account: Some Examples
  • 3.4 Another Example: The Innate Idea of God
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4: The Natural Light Reconsidered
  • 4.1 The Natural Light, Common Notions, and Innateness
  • 4.2 A Reply to an Objection
  • 4.3 John Morris on the Natural Light
  • 4.4 The Natural Light and the Role of the Will
  • 4.5 The Metaphor of Light
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 5: The Natural Light and Its Truths
  • 5.1 Perception by the Natural Light
  • 5.2 Some Examples of Perception by the Natural Light
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • Chapter 6: Innate Ideas, Corporeal Substance, and Mathematics
  • 6.1 The Innate Idea of Extension
  • 6.2 Discovering the Innate Idea of Extension
  • 6.3 Perceiving Ideas of Shapes
  • 6.4 Perceiving Geometrical Propositions
  • 6.5 Perceiving Other Mathematical Propositions
  • 6.6 Descartes' Laws of Motion
  • 6.7 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W.

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