Cartesian Innateness

Nelson, Alan

doi:10.1002/9780470696439.ch19

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“…For example, Descartes suggests in the Comments that all ideas, including sensory perceptions, are innate (aT ViiiB 358-359). See Nelson (2008) for an overview of some of those issues.…”

Section: Descartes On Mental Actionmentioning

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Responsibility in Descartes’s Theory of Judgment

Jayasekera¹

2016

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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in this paper i develop a new account of the philosophical motivations for Descartes's theory of judgment. The theory needs explanation because the idea that judgment, or belief, is an operation of the will seems problematic at best, and Descartes does not make clear why he adopted what, at the time, was a novel view. i argue that attending to Descartes's conception of the will as the active, free faculty of mind reveals that a general concern with responsibility motivates his theory of judgment. My account avoids some unappealing features of the standard interpretation, renders the theory more plausible than many have suggested, and explains why his theory does not fall neatly into any current-day position on the issue of the control we have over belief.

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“…For example, Descartes suggests in the Comments that all ideas, including sensory perceptions, are innate (aT ViiiB 358-359). See Nelson (2008) for an overview of some of those issues.…”

Section: Descartes On Mental Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responsibility in Descartes’s Theory of Judgment

Jayasekera¹

2016

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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“…I must here present this as a speculative interpretation that can provide a tidy explanation of how Descartes’ theory works. For some details, see Schouls (), Nelson (1996,, ,), and Rogers and Nelson (forthcoming).…”

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“…A perception can at the same time be highly clear and distinct and slightly confused. Only perfectly simple ideas can be perceived with maximal clarity and distinctness (Nelson).…”

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