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Soul and physiology

Hanoch Ben-Yami

pp. 75-121

Abstract

My discussion of man in The World will be a little fuller than I had intended, for I have undertaken to explain all the main functions in man. I have already written of the vital functions, such as digestion of food, the heartbeat, the distribution of nourishment, etc., and the five senses. I am now dissecting the heads of various animals, so that I can explain what imagination, memory, etc. consist in. (AT I 263, CSMK 40)

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Ben-Yami Hanoch (2015) Descartes' philosophical revolution: a reassessment. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 75-121

DOI: 10.1057/9781137512024_4

Full citation:

Ben-Yami Hanoch (2015) Soul and physiology, In: Descartes' philosophical revolution, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 75–121.