The Achilles of Rationalist PsychologyThomas M. Lennon, Robert J. Stainton Springer Science & Business Media, 22 sty 2008 - 290 In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the “Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul”. This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness. In Kant’s illustration, the unity had by our perception of a verse cannot be accounted for if the words of the verse are distributed among parts thought to compose the mind. The argument, or at least the unity of consciousness that underpins it, has a history extending from Plato to the present. Moreover, many philosophers have extended the argument, some of them using to argue such views as immortality. It is the aim of this volume to treat the major figures who have advanced the argument, or who have held views importantly bearing on it. Original essays by scholars with expertise on the relevant authors treat Plato, Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, the medievals, Descartes, Locke, Cudworth, Bayle, Clarke, Spinoza, Leibniz. Hume, Mendelsohn, Kant, Lotze, James, as well as those working in contemporary cognitive science on what is called the binding problem of how the human brain can unify the elements of experience into a single representation. |
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... . . . . 133 Benjamin Hill 8 Cudworth and Bayle: An Odd Couple? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Thomas M. Lennon 9 The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke Collins Correspondence ...
... Bayle, Clarke, Leibniz, Hume, Mendelssohn, Kant, Lotze and James. The papers address these historical figures' relationship to the Achilles: What conceptual elements did they contribute to its development? Did they offer a variation on ...
... The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. 2 A rare, recent exception is Todd Ryan, in 'Bayle's Defense of Mind-Body Dualism,' Aufklärung 16 (2004) pp. 191–211, esp. 201–209. 3 It is rare for an author to consider both 2 T.M. Lennon, R.J. Stainton.
... Bayle.) A variant on this argument, which appears to be original with Lotze, focuses on a difference between (a) the composition of physical qualities, paradigmatically instanced by the composition of motions, and (b) the kind of ...
... Bayle, who characterized an Achilles argument as the champion argument characteristic of a sect. On this view, an Achilles argument was so-called in the Schools, not in reference to the invincibility of Achilles, but because of the ...
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Aristotle on the Unity of Consciousness 43 | 42 |
The Neoplatonic Achilles | 59 |
The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Medieval Philosophy | 75 |
Hume Spinoza and the Achilles Inference 93 | 92 |
Locke and the Achilles Argument | 115 |
The Reverse Achilles in Locke 133 | 132 |
The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke | 159 |
Leibnizs Achilles 177 | 176 |
Humes Reply to the Achilles Argument | 193 |
Kant and Mendelssohn on the Implications of the I Think | 215 |
Kant on the Achilles Argument 235 | 234 |
Achilles in the 21st Century | 257 |
Bibliography | 277 |