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Title: Descartes’s Dreams

Descartes’s Dreams

Imagination in the "Meditations</I>

by Ann Scholl (Author)
©2006 Monographs VIII, 150 Pages
Theology & Philosophy
Series: Studies in the Humanities, Volume 56

Summary

Ann Scholl revises the traditional understanding of the role of imagination and sensory perception in Descartes’s Meditations. Traditionally, Cartesian scholars have focused primarily on sensory perception as the more significant of the two «special» modes of thought. In this work, Ann Scholl describes how a better understanding of Descartes’s skepticism and his arguments for dualism are reached when imagination instead is understood as the more primary of the two special modes of thought. The result is a fresh reading and interpretation of Descartes’s most influential work.

Details

Pages
VIII, 150
Publication Year
2006
ISBN (PDF)
9781453908983
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820452456
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0898-3
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (April)
Keywords
Imagination Meditationes de prima philosophia Descartes, René
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. VIII, 150 pp.
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Ann Scholl (Author)

The Author: Ann Scholl received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was formerly a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at European Humanities University-International and Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Belarus. She has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Kuwait since Fall 2005. Her scholarly interests include research and publications in applied ethics and feminist theory.

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