Descartes and the metaphysics of human nature / Justin Skirry.

The traditional account of mind/body union attributed to Descartes supposes that the immaterial, thinking mind and the material, non-thinking body interact by means of efficient causation - that the mind causes events in the body, e.g. the voluntary raising of an arm, and vice versa, e.g. the visual...

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Main Author: Skirry, Justin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2005.
Series:Continuum studies in philosophy.
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