Two events at Fribourg University in Switzerland, with Francesco Marrone discussing #Descartes #Cartesianism and #Scholasticism at large, especially dealing with doubt, will, reality, and objectification #17thcentury #histphilo
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Two events at Fribourg University in Switzerland, with Francesco Marrone discussing #Descartes #Cartesianism and #Scholasticism at large, especially dealing with doubt, will, reality, and objectification #17thcentury #histphilo
New post as part of a series where I demolish folk Cartesianism once and for all andymasley.substack.com/p/ai-and-fol...
AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 1: Defining the Problem
Why I'm scared of linear algebra
andymasley.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
New post as part of a series where I demolish folk Cartesianism once and for all andymasley.substack.com/p/ai-and-fol...
I wonder, why is the agency of organisms considered a philosophical problem at all?
It seems that #philosophy is trapped in the flybottle of #Cartesianism and #naturalism /Epicureanism. The talk about animals as machines makes sense only against that background.
It seems that #philosophy is trapped in the flybottle of #Cartesianism and #naturalism /Epicureanism. The talk about animals as machines makes sense only against that background.
Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I wonder, why is the agency of organisms considered a philosophical problem at all?
It seems that #philosophy is trapped in the flybottle of #Cartesianism and #naturalism /Epicureanism. The talk about animals as machines makes sense only against that background.
It seems that #philosophy is trapped in the flybottle of #Cartesianism and #naturalism /Epicureanism. The talk about animals as machines makes sense only against that background.
Woke Cartesianism is one of my hobby horses so I loved this
Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
#philsky #podcast
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
#philsky #podcast
October 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Woke Cartesianism is one of my hobby horses so I loved this
Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
#philsky #podcast
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
#philsky #podcast
October 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today's new episode: Cartesianism and Gender
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
#philsky #podcast
www.historyofphilosophy.net/cartesianism...
Why Cartesianism appealed to women and became the inspiration for a pioneering feminist, Poullain de la Barre; and why Cartesianism was not the only option for women philosophers of the age.
#philsky #podcast
Coming up in a few hours on the new #HoPWaG podcast episode...
Cartesianism and women: why figures like Poullain de la Barre (whose name I just managed to spell right on the first try!) thought Descartes' ideas would be an ideal basis for arguing in favor of gender equality.
Cartesianism and women: why figures like Poullain de la Barre (whose name I just managed to spell right on the first try!) thought Descartes' ideas would be an ideal basis for arguing in favor of gender equality.
October 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Coming up in a few hours on the new #HoPWaG podcast episode...
Cartesianism and women: why figures like Poullain de la Barre (whose name I just managed to spell right on the first try!) thought Descartes' ideas would be an ideal basis for arguing in favor of gender equality.
Cartesianism and women: why figures like Poullain de la Barre (whose name I just managed to spell right on the first try!) thought Descartes' ideas would be an ideal basis for arguing in favor of gender equality.
Thinking about a really old French commantary on Tolkien and specifically how slow his popularity was to grow in France being tied to Cartesianism and how a certain overdose of rationalism had made that kind of fairy tale a hard sell to modern French publics at the time.
September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Thinking about a really old French commantary on Tolkien and specifically how slow his popularity was to grow in France being tied to Cartesianism and how a certain overdose of rationalism had made that kind of fairy tale a hard sell to modern French publics at the time.
“The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, as two radically different kinds of substance, will hardly find defenders today. Rejecting this, we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.”
— Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Architecture of Theories”
— Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Architecture of Theories”
November 20, 2024 at 1:03 AM
“The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, as two radically different kinds of substance, will hardly find defenders today. Rejecting this, we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.”
— Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Architecture of Theories”
— Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Architecture of Theories”
📣Workshop on Object/Oggetto/Objet @Unisalento #CentroCartesiano #Descartes #Cartesianism #histphilo #histsci
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📣Workshop on Object/Oggetto/Objet @Unisalento #CentroCartesiano #Descartes #Cartesianism #histphilo #histsci
Ireland was mostly too busy with wars in 17th century to spend much time on Descartes, though William Molyneux translated the Meditations and Thomas Gowan created a hybrid philosophy from reformed scholasticism & Cartesianism.
www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/31/t...
www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/31/t...
February 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ireland was mostly too busy with wars in 17th century to spend much time on Descartes, though William Molyneux translated the Meditations and Thomas Gowan created a hybrid philosophy from reformed scholasticism & Cartesianism.
www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/31/t...
www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/03/31/t...
Newton for Ladies (1737) – Newtonianism vs. Cartesianism
L: https://www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk/special/exhibitions-and-displays/exhibitions-archive/newton-and-newtonianism/ladies
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292404
posted on 2025.09.18 at 13:24:22 (c=0, p=3)
L: https://www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk/special/exhibitions-and-displays/exhibitions-archive/newton-and-newtonianism/ladies
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292404
posted on 2025.09.18 at 13:24:22 (c=0, p=3)
September 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Newton for Ladies (1737) – Newtonianism vs. Cartesianism
L: https://www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk/special/exhibitions-and-displays/exhibitions-archive/newton-and-newtonianism/ladies
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292404
posted on 2025.09.18 at 13:24:22 (c=0, p=3)
L: https://www.whipplelib.hps.cam.ac.uk/special/exhibitions-and-displays/exhibitions-archive/newton-and-newtonianism/ladies
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292404
posted on 2025.09.18 at 13:24:22 (c=0, p=3)
Is this woke cartesianism
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Is this woke cartesianism
Part 2, it’s over for Cartesianism open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 2: Problems for Cartesianism
The theater is empty, the screen is in another room
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Part 2, it’s over for Cartesianism open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...
Bruno was awesome! But he wasn't killed for his views on natural philosophy nor was he a scientist of particular repute himself! And his though diverges significantly from the Cartesianism that would define Enlightenment science we so know and love (to hate)!
June 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Bruno was awesome! But he wasn't killed for his views on natural philosophy nor was he a scientist of particular repute himself! And his though diverges significantly from the Cartesianism that would define Enlightenment science we so know and love (to hate)!
Leibniz 2/???
• notable aspects of Leibniz's critique of Cartesianism includes an emphasis on Descartes's ethics and that he doesn't find the metaphysics "consoling," in addition to general don't-be-a-follower claims
• what is surprising about Spinoza's definitions
• notable aspects of Leibniz's critique of Cartesianism includes an emphasis on Descartes's ethics and that he doesn't find the metaphysics "consoling," in addition to general don't-be-a-follower claims
• what is surprising about Spinoza's definitions
September 2, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Leibniz 2/???
• notable aspects of Leibniz's critique of Cartesianism includes an emphasis on Descartes's ethics and that he doesn't find the metaphysics "consoling," in addition to general don't-be-a-follower claims
• what is surprising about Spinoza's definitions
• notable aspects of Leibniz's critique of Cartesianism includes an emphasis on Descartes's ethics and that he doesn't find the metaphysics "consoling," in addition to general don't-be-a-follower claims
• what is surprising about Spinoza's definitions
Musk and Ramaswamy's groundbreaking 1600s Cartesianism in a 2008 indie-electro banger.
youtu.be/TF297rN_8OY?...
youtu.be/TF297rN_8OY?...
The Faint - "The Geeks Were Right"
YouTube video by Music Video Promotion Company - HIP Video Promo
youtu.be
December 30, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Musk and Ramaswamy's groundbreaking 1600s Cartesianism in a 2008 indie-electro banger.
youtu.be/TF297rN_8OY?...
youtu.be/TF297rN_8OY?...
The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, as two radically different kinds of substance, will hardly find defenders to-day. Rejecting this, we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.
August 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The old dualistic notion of mind and matter, so prominent in Cartesianism, as two radically different kinds of substance, will hardly find defenders to-day. Rejecting this, we are driven to some form of hylopathy, otherwise called monism.
Nobody wants to create a rich fantasy world in which the 1980s body-swap comedy genre never existed. Implicit Cartesianism is just the price you pay for 'Freaky Friday' and 'Big.'
January 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Nobody wants to create a rich fantasy world in which the 1980s body-swap comedy genre never existed. Implicit Cartesianism is just the price you pay for 'Freaky Friday' and 'Big.'
Ai induced cartesianism
July 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ai induced cartesianism
Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring my wife and others!
Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic.
www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...
Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic.
www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...
Cartesianism and Philosophy of Mind
This book explores themes in the philosophy of mind as they emerge within the early modern Cartesian tradition. It brings together thirteen contributions from international scholars, to provide a fine...
www.routledge.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Exciting new book on Cartesianism, featuring my wife and others!
Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic.
www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...
Find out why the facile “criticisms” of Cartesianism you were taught as an undergrad were reductive and dogmatic.
www.routledge.com/Cartesianism...
today's viewing:
they take Thomas Lamarre's concept of layered compositing, not to his conclusion of anti-Cartesianism, but to emphasise emotional distance and disconnect in a powerful way, truly nobody does it like KyoAni
turned on manual focus by accident for the 2nd one waah
they take Thomas Lamarre's concept of layered compositing, not to his conclusion of anti-Cartesianism, but to emphasise emotional distance and disconnect in a powerful way, truly nobody does it like KyoAni
turned on manual focus by accident for the 2nd one waah
March 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
today's viewing:
they take Thomas Lamarre's concept of layered compositing, not to his conclusion of anti-Cartesianism, but to emphasise emotional distance and disconnect in a powerful way, truly nobody does it like KyoAni
turned on manual focus by accident for the 2nd one waah
they take Thomas Lamarre's concept of layered compositing, not to his conclusion of anti-Cartesianism, but to emphasise emotional distance and disconnect in a powerful way, truly nobody does it like KyoAni
turned on manual focus by accident for the 2nd one waah
until the philosopher's stone first degraded to a literal magic stone, and then sank into the banality and vulgarity of the industrial entertainment complex. and the human organism became L'homme machine. (1747 but basically just Cartesianism)
August 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
until the philosopher's stone first degraded to a literal magic stone, and then sank into the banality and vulgarity of the industrial entertainment complex. and the human organism became L'homme machine. (1747 but basically just Cartesianism)
🔓 Dengsø, M. J. (2025). Cognitive science and Cartesianism: Representational pull and methodological individualism.Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/teo0...
APA PsycNet
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🔓 Dengsø, M. J. (2025). Cognitive science and Cartesianism: Representational pull and methodological individualism.Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/teo0...
I get kind of tired of the exhortations to feel inspired and committed and struggle-ready and not at all depressed by national politics. There's a sort of off-brand Stan Leeism Cartesianism to that all: tell your mind to get control of those emotions! Face front, true believer! Excelsior! 1/
December 3, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I get kind of tired of the exhortations to feel inspired and committed and struggle-ready and not at all depressed by national politics. There's a sort of off-brand Stan Leeism Cartesianism to that all: tell your mind to get control of those emotions! Face front, true believer! Excelsior! 1/
My suspicion is that it's motivated by a residual Cartesianism.
November 7, 2023 at 3:46 PM
My suspicion is that it's motivated by a residual Cartesianism.