Mechanism, Metaphysics and Mind in the Seventeenth Century

In this chapter I examine the seventeenth century origin of major philosophical theories of mind and body in post-Cartesian mechanical philosophy (with the exception of theories of active matter and powers). I focus on how brain physiology and conceptions

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Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science A Critical History

Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science

Paolo Pecere

Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science A Critical History

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Paolo Pecere Dipartimento di Filosofia Comunicazione e Spettacolo University of Roma TRE Rome, Italy

ISBN 978-3-030-51462-4 ISBN 978-3-030-51463-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51463-1

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Acknowledgments

I started writing this book in the framework of a Fulbright Research Scholarship at the Philosophy Department of New York University (2016/2017). I thank Béatrice Longuenesse for the support and for insightful comments on the previous versions of Chaps. 4 and 5. I also thank David Chalmers and Ned Block for conversations on this project during my visits at NYU. Since 2012, I presented early versions of the material in conferences and seminars at the Universities of Roma “La Sapienza,” Roma TRE, Johannesburg, Cagliari, Paris Diderot (seminar hosted by Céline Cherici, Jean-Claude Dupont, Charles Wolfe), Liège (seminar hosted by Federico Boccaccini), Pittsburgh (seminar hosted by Mazviita Chirimuuta), São Paulo (seminar hosted by Marcio Suzuki), at the “Model-Based Reasoning” (MBR) Conference in Sestri Levante (2012), at the “Towards a Science of Consciousness” conference in Tucson (2014), at the V Multilateral Kant Colloquium, Complutense University of Madrid (2014), at the Meetings on Neuroscience and Society in Padua (2016 and 2017), at the HOPOS 2018 conference in Gronin