2018
DOI: 10.1017/s0012217318000203
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Descartes’s Indefinitely Extended Universe

Abstract: Descartes believed the extended world did not terminate in a boundary: but why? After elucidating Descartes’s position in §1, suggesting his conception of the indefinite extension of the universe should be understood as actual but syncategorematic, we turn in §2 to his argument: any postulation of an outermost surface for the world will be self-defeating, because merely contemplating such a boundary will lead us to recognise the existence of further extension beyond it. In §3, we identify the fundamental assum… Show more

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“…For him, the two are not interrelated. He believed that the material world was indefinitely large: it just carried on going ever further outwards, nowhere terminating in a boundary (Reid, 2019). For Descartes, nothing is added to the ontology of the natural world over and above the arrangements of particles of matter.…”
Section: Human As a "Thinking" Subjectmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For him, the two are not interrelated. He believed that the material world was indefinitely large: it just carried on going ever further outwards, nowhere terminating in a boundary (Reid, 2019). For Descartes, nothing is added to the ontology of the natural world over and above the arrangements of particles of matter.…”
Section: Human As a "Thinking" Subjectmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, Sörensen and Söderbaum () suggest in their Development Dialogue special issue that we have moved beyond the ‘nexus’ altogether, and into a moment defined by increasingly institutionalized securitization and continuous global disaster management. Reid conceptualizes the shift toward global disaster management through changing discursive expressions of security through ‘resilience’, arguing the ‘development–security nexus’ has been replaced by a ‘sustainable development–resilience nexus’, where resilience presupposes a disastrous world requiring constant global disaster management and intervention (Reid, : 72; see also Pupavec, ).…”
Section: The ‘Security–development Nexus’ Counter‐insurgency and The ...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Concepts of resilience span a wide range of disciplines and a multiverse of entities (e.g., ecosystems, humans, and world banking), to describe bounces back to health despite disadvantage. Resilience attributes normative and positive meanings to the resilient subject, who “must permanently struggle to accommodate itself to the world” (Reid, 2012, p. 74). What is required is the subject’s ability to conform to promote stability within the system rather than perturb the system.…”
Section: Resiliencementioning
confidence: 99%