The Cartesian Brain : Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives (Hardcover)

Foreword Denis Kambouchner??1. Introducing the Cartesian Brain Damien Lacroux, Tad M. Schmaltz, and Ruidan She??Part 1: Descartes and His System??2. The Doctrine of the Pineal Gland: A Cryptic Doctrine Franco A. Meschini??3. “Power of the Soul” and Imagination: A Psychophysiological Hypothesis Denis Kambouchner??4. Attribution and Determination: Some Remarks on Voluntary Motion Frederic de Buzon??5. Descartes’s Corporeal Ideas of Distance: Information Processing or Mechanical Correlation? Gary Hatfield??6. The Easiness of Habits: Brain, Freedom, and Conduct of Life in Descartes Louis Rouquayrol??7. Beyond the Brain: Descartes on the Initiation of the Passions and Passionate Responses Ruidan She??Part 2: Cartesianism and Its Legacy??8. Descartes’s Cardiovascular Science of the Brain Gideon Manning??9. The Pineal Gland in Cartesianism Tad M. Schmaltz??10. The Figure of Descartes in Neuroscience: Relating the Histories of Nerve Physiology, Reflex Action, and Emotions Jean-Gael Barbara??11. Intellectual Emotion, Passion, and the Relevance of Cartesianism to Cognitive Science Damien Lacroux??12. The Cartesian Brain and the History of Memory Traces Jean-Claude Dupont