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The cartesian man; The hybrid entity emerging from an intimate unification of the mind and body
(Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2007) Yaldır, Hülya
The term "Cartesian dualism' is commonly used to lump together all forms of "consciousnesses under the single category of the mental. Alongside thought and extension, modern interpreters of the Cartesian philosophy have often inclined to disregard Descartes presentation of a third category, the category of sensation and imagination. However, Descartes' philosophy of mind strongly points out a threefold distinction instead of a simple duality. In this article, after a brief chronological survey of the Cartesian theory of the mind-body union, I try to argue against the alleged inconsistency of Descartes' view and the supposed unintelligibility of his doctrine of the three primitive notions, namely, mind, body, and their union.