The Idea of Extension: Innate or Adventitious? On R. F.McRae's Interpretation of Descartes.Murray Miles -1988 -Dialogue 27 (1):15-.detailsIt will come as no surprise that I have a different interpretation of the four passages in which,McRae claims, Descartes “definitely includes extension and its modes in what is given through the senses”. In the first, Descartes includes extension, etc., among his ideas of corporeal bodies. This is not to say that he includes them among his adventitious ideas, though. All adventitious ideas are ideas of external bodies. But the converse is not true. Not all ideas of corporeal (...) bodies are ipso facto adventitious ideas, for, as I see it, the idea of the true and immutable nature of body is non-sensible and innate.McRae slides from “all adventitious ideas seem to be ideas of external bodies” to “all ideas of external bodies are adventitious”. (shrink)
Representationalism, judgment and perception of distance: further to Yolton andMcRae.Thomas M. Lennon -1980 -Dialogue 19 (1):151-162.detailsThe recent literature has seriously challenged, and in my view defeated, the traditional representationalist interpretation of Descartes. One contributor to it, John Yolton, has recently extended its arguments to argue that the traditional representationalist interpretation of Locke must be relinquished as well, that Locke, following the Cartesian path of Arnauld, held a semiotic theory of ideas which “de-ontologized” them and construed them as signs or cues in the direct perception of physical objects. The Cartesian support for this view, especially in (...) La Dioptrique, has been questioned by R.F.McRae, who argues that “if Locke accepts Descartes' theory of vision, then Descartes' conception of sensations as signs provides no support for the direct realist interpretation of Locke.” My aim here is not to resolve the representationalism issue, but to show the irrelevance to it of the kinds of questions the Yolton-McRae exchange raises concerning sense perception. I shall try to show that there stems from Descartes a single account of those questions the essentials of which are embedded in theories falling on both sides of the representationalism issue. That single account involves a theory of judgment and vision, especially of distance, which in the case of Malebranche and Berkeley, even involves the same confusions. (shrink)
Freedom and the development of autonomy: A reply to Victor Quinn.R. F. Dearden -1984 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 18 (2):271–273.detailsR F Dearden; Freedom and the Development of Autonomy: a reply to Victor Quinn, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 18, Issue 2, 30 May 2006, Pages 271–27.
In Defence of Children's Enquiry.R. F. Dearden -1977 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 11 (1):170-175.detailsR F Deaden; In Defence of Children's Enquiry, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 11, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 170–175, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467.
Education and the Development of Reason.R. F. Dearden,Paul Heywood Hirst &R. S. Peters (eds.) -1972 - London: Routledge.detailsThis volume critically and constructively discusses philosophical questions which have particular bearing on the formulation of educational aims. The book is divided into three major parts: the first deals with the nature of education, and discusses the various general aims, such as 'mental health', 'socialization' and 'creativity' which have been thought to characterize it; the second section is concerned with the nature of reason and its relationship to feeling, will and action; finally the development of different aspects of reason in (...) an educational context is considered. (shrink)
XIII*—Explanation in History.R. F. Atkinson -1972 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 72 (1):241-256.detailsR. F. Atkinson; XIII*—Explanation in History, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 72, Issue 1, 1 June 1972, Pages 241–256, https://doi.org/10.1093/a.
Play and Pleasure.R. F. Dearden -1971 -Journal of Philosophy of Education 5 (1):37-41.detailsR F Dearden; Play and Pleasure, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 5, Issue 1, 30 May 2006, Pages 37–41, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1971.tb0044.
I*—The Presidential Address: Euthyphro.R. F. Holland -1982 -Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 82 (1):1-16.detailsR. F. Holland; I*—The Presidential Address: Euthyphro, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 82, Issue 1, 1 June 1982, Pages 1–16, https://doi.org/10.
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