Descartes's Theory of Substance: Why He was Not a Trialist

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (3):395 - 418 (2011)
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In this work I argue that Descartes was not a trialist by showing that the main tenets of trialist interpretations of Descartes's theory of substance are either not supported by the text or are not sufficient for establishing the trialist interpretation

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10.1080/09608788.2011.563519

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Співвідношення понять субстанційного союзу і взаємодії душі й тіла у філософії декарт.Дмитро Сепетий - 2018 - Sententiae 37 (1):136-152.

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The philosophical writings of Descartes.René Descartes - 1984 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Descartes: the project of pure enquiry.Bernard Williams (ed.) - 1978 - Hassocks: Harvester Press.
Descartes’s Dualism.Marleen Rozemond - 1998 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Descartes.John Cottingham (ed.) - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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