Ibn Sînâ (Avicenna) and René Descartes on the faculty of imagination

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (2):247-278 (2009)
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Throughout their life Ibn Sînâ and Descartes firmly believed that the soul or mind of a human being was essentially incorporeal. In his ‘On the Soul’ (De anima), the psychological part of his vast...

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