Cartesian Philosophy - Cartesian Science

Rene Des Cartes mostly summarizes several earlier views


The Cartesian View

Mind
mind is a center
consciousness directs and controls things
there is an active self
the prominent mental process is thinking
thinking is rational, logical, verbal, linguistic
overt, serial, monitored
first-person authority

World
world is beyond a veil, sharply separated, independent ("theater")
knowledge is propositional
justified true belief
foundationalism: grounding belief in logic and experience (true/false, opinion/knowledge etc.)


Caveat: Descartes is important but not all-that-imortant...
it's just a ghost of ourselves

cf. who is Cartesian? We are the Cartesians...