Index

alchemy ref 1

Ancient Greeks ref 1

animals

as feeling beings ref 1

as machines ref 1

Aristotle ref 1, ref 2

Art of Fencing, The ref 1

astrology ref 1

atoms, Descartes’ theory ref 1

Bacon, Francis ref 1

Beeckman, Isaac ref 1

Behaviourism ref 1, ref 2

belief vs. understanding ref 1, ref 2

body, existence of ref 1, ref 2

brain

and consciousness ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

and mind ref 1

Burman, Frans ref 1

Cartesian

circle ref 1

coordinates ref 1

doubt ref 1

dualism see dualism

mind model discounted ref 1

universe ref 1

Causal Adequacy Principle ref 1, ref 2

causal necessity ref 1

cause ref 1

and effect ref 1

Christianity

and philosophy ref 1

and scientific thinkers ref 1

see also under God

clarity ref 1, ref 2

clear and distinct ideas ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

body and mind ref 1

and God ref 1, ref 2

problems ref 1

Cogito, the ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

cogito ergo sum see Cogito, the

computers and humans ref 1, ref 2

consciousness ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

corpuscles ref 1

Cratylus ref 1

demon see invisible demon

Descartes

birth ref 1

books banned ref 1

death ref 1

as father ref 1

health ref 1

legacy ref 1, ref 2

life ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

philosophy flawed ref 1

as a representative realist ref 1

retirement ref 1

school ref 1

and vivisection ref 1

Discourse on the Method ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

clear and distinct rule ref 1, ref 2

Double Aspect Theory ref 1

doubt ref 1, ref 2

Cogito, the ref 1, ref 2

dreams ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

dualism ref 1, ref 2

evidence ref 1

problems with ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

emotions ref 1

empiricism ref 1

Empiricus, Sextus ref 1

Epiphenomenalism ref 1

Erasmus ref 1

Essays ref 1

essence ref 1

Euclid ref 1

existentialism ref 1

extended substance ref 1

faith ref 1, ref 2

Feyerabend, Paul ref 1

Fibonacci numbers ref 1

final cause see cause

first person perspective ref 1

formalists ref 1

Foucault, Michel ref 1

free will ref 1

Functionalism ref 1, ref 2

Galilei, Galileo ref 1

arrest ref 1

geometry ref 1

God

Double Aspect Theory ref 1

existence “proved” ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

faith ref 1

and mathematics ref 1

and Occasionalism ref 1

gravity ref 1

Greeks see Ancient Greeks

hearing ref 1

Heraclitus ref 1

Holland, Descartes settles in ref 1

human error ref 1, ref 2

Hume, David ref 1

“I think therefore I am” see Cogito, the

see also body, existence of

ideas, Descartes on ref 1, ref 2

see also clear and distinct ideas

imagination ref 1, ref 2

immortality see soul

invisible demon ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Kepler, Johannes ref 1

knowledge

doubting ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

dubitable/indubitable ref 1

and mathematics ref 1

public ref 1

Pyrrhonist view ref 1

and science ref 1

and the senses ref 1

see also scepticism

Lacan, Jacques ref 1

language ref 1, ref 2

law, Descartes’ study of ref 1

“leaky proofs” ref 1

Leibniz, G.W. ref 1

letters of Descartes ref 1

Locke, John ref 1

logical necessity ref 1

machines

bodies as ref 1, ref 2

see also computers and humans

Malebranche, Nicholas ref 1

mathematician, Descartes as ref 1, ref 2

mathematics ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

certainties ref 1, ref 2

doubting ref 1

as human invention ref 1, ref 2

as truth ref 1

and the universe ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Meditations ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

clear and distinct rule ref 1, ref 2

mental states ref 1

mind

and body interaction ref 1, ref 2

see also dualism

existence of ref 1

limitations of ref 1, ref 2

origins ref 1

and soul ref 1

see also dualism

Mind/Brain Identity Theory ref 1, ref 2

Montaigne, Michel de ref 1

Netherlands see Holland

Newton, Isaac ref 1

observation, importance of ref 1

Occasionalism ref 1

occult ref 1

Ontological argument ref 1

optics, Descartes’ study of ref 1

Paracelsus ref 1

Pascal, Blaise ref 1

Passions of the Soul ref 1, ref 2

perception ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

belief and faith ref 1

empiricists vs. rationalists ref 1

Pyrrhonist view ref 1, ref 2

Philosophical essays ref 1

philosophy

in Descartes’ time ref 1

and science ref 1

Philosophy of Mind, the ref 1, ref 2

physicalists see Mind/Brain Identity Theory

pineal gland ref 1

planets, study of orbits ref 1

Plato ref 1, ref 2

Platonist view

held by Descartes ref 1, ref 2

of mathematics ref 1, ref 2

Popper, Karl ref 1

Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia ref 1

Principles of Philosophy ref 1, ref 2

Psychophysical Parallelism ref 1

Pyrrhonists ref 1, ref 2

Pythagoras ref 1, ref 2

qualia ref 1

quantum theory ref 1

Queen Christina of Sweden ref 1, ref 2

rationalism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

reality ref 1

reductionism ref 1

religion see Christianity, God

representative realism ref 1

res cogitans ref 1, ref 2

res extensa theory ref 1

Roman Catholic Church see Christianity

Ryle, Gilbert ref 1

Sartre, Jean-Paul ref 1

scepticism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

scholasticism ref 1

schoolmen ref 1

science

in Descartes’ time ref 1, ref 2

and philosophy ref 1

Searle, John ref 1

seeing ref 1

senses ref 1

knowledge through ref 1

lack of clarity ref 1

unreliability of ref 1, ref 2

shrine, visit to ref 1

sight see seeing

software, thoughts as ref 1

Sorbière, de ref 1

soul ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

Descartes’ image of ref 1, ref 2

interaction with body ref 1

Spinoza, Benedictus de ref 1, ref 2

spirit see soul

St Anselm ref 1

St Augustine ref 1

St Thomas Aquinas ref 1

substance ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

sun see planets, study of orbits

Sweden, invitation to ref 1, ref 2

swordsman, Descartes as ref 1

Theory of Everything (TOE) ref 1

Thirty Years’ War ref 1

thinking ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

and the brain ref 1, ref 2

see also consciousness

existence of ref 1

Functionalism ref 1, ref 2

mind and body interaction ref 1

substance see res cogitans

thoughts see thinking

Token Identity Theory ref 1

Trademark argument ref 1

trialism ref 1

truth and mathematics ref 1

understanding vs. belief ref 1, ref 2

unity in knowledge ref 1

universal

language ref 1

scepticism ref 1

universe

of Descartes’ time ref 1, ref 2

and mathematics ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

visual clarity ref 1, ref 2

vivisection ref 1

will

and faith ref 1

and the intellect ref 1

and subduing emotions ref 1

Wittgenstein, Ludwig ref 1

World, The ref 1