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Amy Morgan Schmitter on Cartesian Mechanisms of Representation

Amy Morgan Schmitter in her “Representation, Self-Representation, and the Passions in Descartes” explains her model for how to understand the mechanisms of representation found in Descartes’s writings. I suggest that one way to understand Descartes’ metaphysical turn in his mature work is as an attempt to ground the accounts he has offered of signification in […]