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The body and the brain

In Stephen Gaukroger, John Andrew Schuster & John Sutton, Descartes' Natural Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 697--722 (2000)

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  • Descartes' physiology and its relation to his psychology.Gary Hatfield - 1992 - In John Cottingham, The Cambridge companion to Descartes. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 335--370.
    Descartes understood the subject matter of physics (or natural philosophy) to encompass the whole of nature, including living things. It therefore comprised not only nonvital phenomena, including those we would now denominate as physical, chemical, minerological, magnetic, and atmospheric; it also extended to the world of plants and animals, including the human animal (with the exception of those aspects of the human mind that Descartes assigned to solely to thinking substance: pure intellect and will). Descartes wrote extensively on physiology and (...)
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  • Descartes on Life and Sense.Ann Wilbur MacKenzie - 1989 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19 (2):163 - 192.
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