The epistemic role of imagination in Descartes's First Meditation

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While imagination was a major concern for Descartes throughout his work, Cartesian scholars have paid little attention to this faculty, especially regarding to the Meditations of First Philosophy. This article highlights the epistemic role of imagination in the First Meditation. I argue that the way Descartes’s conception of imagination is elaborated in the First Meditation helps question our interpretation of his dualism, and enables us to formulate the hypothesis that imagination belongs to the essence of the mind. It results that Descartes’s dualism should not be interpreted as separation (or separability) regarding to existence.

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Lynda Gaudemard
Aix-Marseille University

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