La Forge on Memory: From the Treatise on Man to the Treatise on the Human Mind

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Cartesian critters can't remember

“…'Incorporealist' scholars agree that Descartes attributed memories to nonhuman animals in the 1630s, but argue that Descartes later renounced his youthful view and conflated sensory memory with intellectual memory (Morris 1969;Fóti 2000;Des Chene 2001;Scribano 2016). Emanuela Scribano argues that "the outcome of Descartes' mature reflections on memory is that brain traces, which he searched for by dissecting animal heads, deserve only metaphorically to be called memory" (2016: 146).…”

“…Véronique Fóti (2000) and Emanuela Scribano (2016), who endorse otherwise milder incorporealisms, join Morris in conflating intellectual memory with the intellectual recognition of ideas as reconstructions. However, Descartes did not take corporeal memory and intellectual memory to provide different routes to the reconstruction of the same ideas.…”