The Nature of the Mind

Descartes’s Anti-Transparency and the Need for Radical Doubt

“…13. See Alanen (2003: 54-56, 99-100), Broughton (2008: 192), Hatfield (2011), McRae (1972), Radner (1988), Rozemond (2006), Simmons (2012 (1972a; 1972b) and Reynolds (1992). (More on Reynolds in Footnote 23 below.)…”

Rocks Are Just Bad Souls: Anne Conway's Privation Account of Matter

“…24 For a more thorough account of Descartes' aims and how his metaphysics served as the foundation for his physics, see Garber (1992) and Gaukroger (2002). For a detailed account of how Descartes' commitment to mechanism affected his arguments for substance dualism, see Rozemund (2006). Extension, for Descartes, is spatiality.…”

Therapeutic Reflections on Our Bipolar History of Perception

“…Presumably, for instance, it needs to be qualified to take account of his claims about innate knowledge (see, e.g., the discussions in Wilson, Descartes , pp. 150–65 and Rozemond, “The Nature of the Mind”). The essential point for present purposes, however, is just that our access to the mind shows us the mind as it is, in high fidelity.…”