Bodies and Pleasures

... understood the arguments, and maybe written some words about them here and there, we have therefore undergone those books' radical critiques f the most fundamental truths of our culture. This tendency is probably one of the most obvious vestiges of our resilient Cartesianism. We believe we can change our minds without changing our hearts, without changing our bodies, without changing our lives.'

... former onto the latter. In this, I think Leibniz' account is ultimately rife with ambiguity. We might--with some good reason--attribute to him a kind of arch-idealism--we might even say arch-Cartesianism--whereby the activity of the monad is to represent to itself the world. This is certainly not satisfactory to the present purpose, and I believe Leibniz himself gives us reasons to doubt such a ...

Understanding Heidegger's Notion of Dasein - Part 2

... an empiricist psychology. For Husserl, all consciousness, by its very nature, is “consciousness of”, that is, is “intentional”. Naturally, the concept of intentionality represents a radical shift from Cartesianism. Husserl believed that phenomenology was the one true path to philosophy. On Heidegger’s view, the problem with their dualism is that Descartes and Husserl take it for granted from the ...

So... Monadology and the little cyborg that could...

... of Descartes method (which Leibniz pulls heavily from) and his theory on the justification of god (and therefore, his reinscription of Dualism, which after him, is call the “rational mind” or Cartesianism).   Plato, though very, very dead, was also a huge influence on both Descartes and Leibniz: from the idea of “perpetual reciprocity” to the dualism of soul/body, and the body as ...

... familiar, from the Heidegger class I took last spring, and indeed nineteenth century phenomenology is referred to often throughout the paper; it is a central tenet of CE theory (or the theory which gave rise to it) that signifigant progress in general AI requires a more modern philosophy of the structure of the mind than the the seventeenth century Cartesianism which has dominated it thus far.