Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010
Abstract
The paper provides a critical assessment of a remarkable Anti-Cartesian strain in Malebranche’s philosophy of mind, namely his rejection, or even reversion, of a vital Cartesian claim that the (nature of the) mind is better known than (the nature of) body. I argue that the way in which Malebranche puts his case in the original version of his "The Search After Truth" seems to be seriously flawed; and that if he provided any rectification at all, it has to be looked for in the "Elucidation Ten" he added to a later edition of the book.