The Review of Metaphysics, December 1st, 1994
Descartes' doctrine of ideas in the 'Meditations' represents an effort to provide a metaphysical explanation of the notion of mental representation, which he describes as arising out of an interaction of subject and object to form a vehicle of representation. In the 'Passions of the Soul,' Descartes further develops an account of the subject-position by analyzing self-representation as a higher-order representation. For example, joy arises from love as a higher-order representation, one which builds on an initial representation of that which is loved, with the self in the subject-position and ...
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