The Minds of the Moderns: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Philosophy of Mind 9780773594708

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The Minds of the Moderns: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Philosophy of Mind
9780773594708

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Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
I: Descartes
1. Does Descartes think minds are substances?
2. Descartes on self-knowledge
3. Human consciousness and the rational soul
4. Mental causation
5. Mental representation
II: Spinoza
6. Is the mind a substance for Spinoza?
7. Spinoza and self-knowledge
8. The subject of thought and consciousness
9. Spinoza and mental causation
10. Spinoza on representation
III: Leibniz
11. Is the mind a substance for Leibniz?
12. Self-knowledge and the monads
13. Leibniz on consciousness and unconscious perceptions
14. Leibniz and the problem of mental causation
15. Leibniz and representation
IV: Locke
16. Is the mind a substance for Locke?
17. Locke's views on self- knowledge
18. Locke on consciousness
19. Locke on mental causation
20. Locke on representation
V: Berkeley
21. Minds are the only substances
22. What do we know about our own minds or selves?
23. What is the nature of consciousness for Berkeley?
24. Berkeley's problem of mental causation
25. What is Berkeley's theory of mental representation and intentionality?
VI: Hume
26. Is the mind a substance for Hume?
27. Hume and self-knowledge
28. Hume's notion of consciousness
29. Hume on mental causation
30. Hume on representation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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