The problem was famously addressed by René Descartes in the 17th century, resulting in Cartesian dualism, and by pre-Aristotelian philosophers, in Avicennian philosophy, and in earlier Asian ...

In Enlightenment philosophy, this notion was secularized as a bifurcated sense of physical and mental life often tagged “Cartesian dualism,” in reference to its iconic articulator, 17th century French ...

Cartesian "dualism" exerted a powerful influence over Western science for centuries, and while dismissed by most neuroscientists today, still feeds the popular belief in mind as a magical ...

In an exciting development for Native Hawaiian representation in medicine, Dr. Keawe Kaholokula, a prominent health professor ...

 "Long gone are the days of what's called 'Cartesian dualism,' which describes the idea that the mind is totally distinct from the body. Instead, we now know that the brain gives rise to the mind, ...

A cura di Livia Saporito The new frontiers of medical science: religion and health behaviors Where one wonders whether religion, including both ...

The Cartesian basis for much of modern science that viewed content as separable from context has promoted a dualism in medicine that can have a restrictive effect on our understanding of the ...

dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team ...

The release of pressure should cause it to float back up again. What’s happening here? Scientists have known about the Cartesian Diver toy for hundreds of years. Raffaelo Maggiotti, a student of ...

From Oct. 24 to 26, the International Merleau-Ponty Circle (IMPC) found its home at Villanova University for its 48th Annual Conference. The last time that Villanova hosted this prestigious convention ...

As we journey backward through the portals of time, long before the birthing of modern scientific thought, it becomes increasingly difficult to locate women whose contributions were noteworthy. One ...