Tag: Descartes

The third part of Chasing Descartes’ Ghost offered a very rough approximation of a Buddhist conception of mind from a superficial western perspective. It’s a perspective that is a tension between the facts of the world in as far as we might be able to be know them, and a desire...

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 i...