Descartes, the sheep, and the wolf : a study in the autonomy of Cartesian automata
My thesis is an analysis of classical problems in perceptual cognition as they appear in Descartes' mechanical philosophy. My primary focus will be on animals, as well as on the models and metaphors that Descartes used to explain how sense perception, information processing, self-regulation, an...
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University of Aberdeen
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690569 |