Chapter The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
dc.contributor.author | Ben-Yami, Hanoch | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-27T17:12:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-27T17:12:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier | ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_3 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85593 | |
dc.description.abstract | Descartes was the first to hold that, when we perceive, the representation need not resemble what it represents but should correspond to it. Descartes developed this ground-breaking, influential conception in his work on analytic geometry and then transferred it to his theory of perception. I trace the development of the idea in Descartes’ early mathematical works; his articulation of it in Rules for the Direction of the Mind; his first suggestions there to apply this kind of representation-by-correspondence in the scientific inquiry of colours; and, finally, the transfer of the idea to the theory of perception in The World. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Knowledge and its Histories | |
dc.subject.other | René Descartes | |
dc.subject.other | representation | |
dc.subject.other | geometry | |
dc.subject.other | perception | |
dc.subject.other | colour | |
dc.title | Chapter The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence | |
dc.type | chapter | |
oapen.identifier.doi | 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04 | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9791221501698 | |
oapen.series.number | 1 | |
oapen.pages | 17 | |
oapen.place.publication | Florence |