- Reading Descartes
- A cura di Andrea Strazzoni, Marco Sgarbi
The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
- Hanoch Ben-Yami
- © 2023 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04
Descartes was the first to hold that, when we perceive, the representation need not resemble what it represents but should correspond to it. Descartes developed this ground-breaking, influential conception in his work on analytic geometry and then transferred it to his theory of perception. I trace the development of the idea in Descartes’ early mathematical works; his articulation of it in Rules for the Direction of the Mind; his first suggestions there to apply this kind of representation-by-correspondence in the scientific inquiry of colours; and, finally, the transfer of the idea to the theory of perception in The World.
- Keywords:
- René Descartes,
- representation,
- geometry,
- perception,
- colour,
Central European University, Austria - ORCID: 0000-0002-4903-854X
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Titolo del capitolo
The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
Autori
Hanoch Ben-Yami
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
Reading Descartes
Sottotitolo del libro
Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning
Curatori
Andrea Strazzoni, Marco Sgarbi
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
206
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8
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979-12-215-0168-1
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979-12-215-0169-8
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Knowledge and its Histories