The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence

focus here on vision, although the theory is supposed to apply to other sensory modalities as well). These characterisations of Descartes’ view are all found in the scholarly literature and most are common in it, yet like so much else in this literature, some have been challenged. I provided in my book evidence for this interpretation of Descartes’ theory and argued against some alternative ones (Ben-Yami 2015, chapter 2), and I shall assume it in what follows. Theories of representational perception were common from antiquity onwards (Ben-Yami 2015, section 2.3, 33–43), yet Descartes’ theory is original in several respects. For instance, Descartes is the first to hold that the representation of which we are directly aware is in the mind and not in the sense organs. <a href="https://universityofflorence.medium.com/the-development-of-descartes-idea-of-representation-by-correspondence-01d5f18bc3f5">Visit Now</a>