The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

How is it that the mind perceives the words of a verse as a verse and not just as a string of words? One answer to this question is that to do so the mind itself must already be unified as a simple thing without parts (and perhaps must therefore be immortal). Kant called this argument the Achilles,...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lennon, Thomas M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Stainton, Robert J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
Σειρά:Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind ; 7
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  • The Neoplatonic Achilles
  • The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Medieval Philosophy
  • Hume, Spinoza and the Achilles Inference
  • Locke and the Achilles Argument
  • The Reverse Achilles in Locke
  • Cudworth and Bayle: An Odd Couple?
  • The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke Collins Correspondence
  • Leibniz’s ‘Achilles’
  • Hume’s Reply to the Achilles Argument
  • Kant and Mendelssohn on the Implications of the ‘I Think’
  • Kant on the Achilles Argument
  • William James and the Achilles Argument
  • The Binding Problem: Achilles in the 21st Century.