Descartes's peepshow: Critical Notice of Deborah Brown, Descartes and the Passionate Mind.

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (3):485-508 (2010)
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Is Descartes the most misunderstood philosopher in the history of philosophy? To many of us in the business of Descartes scholarship, it certainly seems so. Time and time again, we find ourselves faced with pronouncements about one or another of Descartes's 'errors' — whether the shortcomings of the theater model of consciousness, or the pernicious after-effects of a foundationalism devoted to the transparency of the mental, or the shocking vilification of the body and emotions. Typically these pronouncements are paired with exhortations to overcome the Cartesian X, where 'X' stands for whatever item crucial to enlightenment is currently most misunderstood. That X is some term rarely used and drastically ..

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Mind, theaters, and the anatomy of consciousness.Donald Beecher - 2006 - Philosophy and Literature 30 (1):1-16.

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