The Dynamically Imaginative Cognition of Descartes
What imagination is cannot be answered apart from understanding its conceptual topology, the articulated framework of basic phenomena and concepts that govern our thinking about it. The Platonic ontology of the good (as well as the forms) imaging itself i
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Dennis L. Sepper
Understanding Imagination The Reason of Images
Understanding Imagination
STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE VOLUME 33
General Editor: STEPHEN GAUKROGER, University of Sydney
Editorial Advisory Board: RACHEL ANKENY, University of Adelaide PETER ANSTEY, University of Otago STEVEN FRENCH, University of Leeds KOEN VERMEIR, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven OFER GAL, University of Sydney JOHN SCHUSTER, Campion College & University of Sydney RICHARD YEO, Griffith University
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Dennis L. Sepper
Understanding Imagination The Reason of Images
Dennis L. Sepper Department of Philosophy University of Dallas Irving, Texas, USA
ISSN 0929-6425 ISBN 978-94-007-6506-1 ISBN 978-94-007-6507-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6507-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013938262 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgments
The first intimation of the project that led to this book emerged three decades ago, when in teaching a graduate philosophy course about scientific method I realized that what secondary works said about Descartes did not make sense. Descartes’s early writings abo
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