Descartes’ separated mind
Among Descartes’s most lasting and consequential achievements has been his constitution of the mental as an independent ontological domain. By taking the mind as a substance, with cognitions as its modes, he accorded them a status as self-standing and determinate on their own, without essential regard to other entities…
—Haugeland, J., 2000: Mind Embodied and Embedded, p. 1. Chapter 9 in Haugeland, J., 2000: Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind. Harvard University Press.
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