Mark C R Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark C R Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark C R |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH M C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Uses of Thought and Will
I offer a reading of the role of freedom in Descartes’ Meditations and other writings that sees freedom’s role in “assenting to ideas” as a matter of psychological possibility, and its role in action as governed by epistemic norms. The will has two constitutive aspects, for Descartes: there are volitions that terminate in the soul, and volitions that terminate in the body. When these two aspects, the input and output sides (in Paul Hoffman’s phra…
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The Uses of Thought and Will
I offer a reading of the role of freedom in Descartes’ Meditations and other writings that sees freedom’s role in “assenting to ideas” as a matter of psychological possibility, and its role in action as governed by epistemic norms. The will has two constitutive aspects, for Descartes: there are volitions that terminate in the soul, and volitions that terminate in the body. When these two aspects, the input and output sides (in Paul Hoffman’s phra…
Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Free will (1 work) · Historical Philosophy and Science (1 work) · Ignorance (1 work) · Normative (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (1 work) · Sociology (1 work) · Soul (1 work)