Dennett and Kinsbourne ([1992]) argue that metacontrast backward visual masking provides a clear illustration that 'there is really only a verbal difference' between two versions of the Cartesian ...

THE title of Mr. Smith's book conveys an adequate idea of its scope. The author indicates the lines of his treatment thus:—“In Descartes' system, as we have tried to show, there are three fundamental ...

Analysis was founded in 1933 to provide a forum for short discussions of topics in philosophy. It quickly established itself as one of the characteristic journals of philosophy within the analytic ...

The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s “ghost in the machine” criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism. What did Ryle mean by this? Can you explain his assertion that Cartesian dualism commits a ...

"Philosophy, if not the root of science, is at least the soil in which it grows," Alexandre Koyre, eminent historian of science, maintained at the annual Horblitt lecture last night. To substancetiate ...