Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy

Descartes & the Autonomy of the Human Understanding

1st Edition

By John Carriero
March 01, 1990

This volume, originally published in 1990, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it. Through the examination of the continuities and discontinuities between Descartes' account of the understanding and that of high...