Review of Reuter, M., & Svensson, F. (Eds.). (2019). Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes Spinoza. Oxon: Routledge.

In this paper I argue that the continued relevance of Descartes' philosophy for present-day concerns can be demonstrated by bringing to bear on his Meditations state-of-the-art developments in Informal logic and Argumentation theory, specifically Leo Groarke’s approach multimodal arguments. show meditative exercises Descartes viewed as preconditions establishing metaphysical tenets system recas...

It seems odd that after 370 years or so, since Descartes published his Meditations (1641), we are still wrestling with his thought. Not just philosophers, but scientists who study the mind, as well (see, e.g., Edelman 2006). By the time Descartes himself arrives at his Sixth Meditation, he is wresting with his own thought. Insofar as he defined the self as a thinking thing (res cogitans) in the...

The standard view of Cartesian sensations (SV) is that they present themselves as purely qualitative features of experience (or qualia). Accordingly, Descartes’ view would be that in perceiving the color red, for example, we are merely experiencing the subjective feel of redness rather than seeming to perceive a property of bodies. In this paper, I establish that the argument and textual eviden...