1st Edition
Mind, Body, and Morality New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza
1. Introduction
Martina Reuter and Frans Svensson
Part I: Cartesian Persons
2. The Metaphysics of Cartesian Persons
Deborah Brown
3. The Gender of the Cartesian Mind, Body, and Mind-Body Union
Martina Reuter
4. "I certainly seem to see" – Embodiment in the Second Meditation
Mikko Yrjönsuuri
Part II: Ideas, Knowledge, and Reality
5. Ideas and Reality in Descartes
Peter Myrdal and Arto Repo
6. Spinoza’s Three Kinds of Cognition: Imagination, Understanding, and Definition and Essence
John Carriero
7. Mind-Body Interaction and Unity in Spinoza
Olli Koistinen
8. Spinoza and the Inferential Nature of Thought
Karolina Hübner
9. Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of Self: Spinoza on Desire and Pride
Lisa Shapiro
10. Spinoza on Activity and Passivity: The Problematic Definition Revisited
Valtteri Viljanen
Part III: Will, Virtue, and Love
11. Teleology and Descartes’ Problem of Error
Tomas Ekenberg
12. Descartes’ Generosité
Calvin Normore
13. A Cartesian Distinction in Virtue: Moral and Perfect
Frans Svensson
14. Spinoza and the Cartesian Definition of Love
Denis Kambouchner
15. Self and Will in Descartes’s Account of Love
Lilli Alanen
Biography
Martina Reuter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Frans Svensson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
