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In this chapter I review some of the arguments that supported this fundamental change in our understanding of what constitutes an explanation, with particular reference to their implications for a Cartesian theory of mind.
Some strengths and weaknesses of the Cartesian theory of the mind Tony Walton There are few philosophers who would now support substance dualism in its Cartesian form.1 In this essay, however, I will explore the notion that there are strengths as well as weaknesses in Descartes' philosophy of mind, and that analysing those strengths
Cartesianism refers to a way of thinking that accepts dualisms— supposedly oppositional pairs of concepts like mind/body, good/evil, and nature/culture—rather than a more integrated or fluid way of understanding the world.
7 Ιαν 2021 · The target article conceptualizes psychological theories on a dimension between weak and strong theories and characterizes stronger theories as non-ambiguous and clearly explicated theories that make testable (and in the best case precise) predictions.
29 Ιαν 2024 · Eysenck (1952, 1967, 1982) proposed a theory of personality based on biological factors, arguing that individuals inherit a type of nervous system that affects their ability to learn and adapt to the environment. During the 1940s, Eysenck was working at the Maudsley psychiatric hospital in London.
23 Σεπ 2024 · This volume rethinks Cartesian psychology from the perspective of physiology, with the aim of redetermining the contributions of the brain and central nervous system to mental phenomena. The first part of the volume concerns the details of Descartes’s own physiological account of the brain.
The author approaches individualism as an issue in the philosophy of science and by discussing issues such as computationalism and the mind's modularity he opens the subject up for non-philosophers in psychology and computer science.
