The Cartesian vision fulfilled: Analogue bodies and digital minds

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-166

  Hacking, Ian ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physiologie de la Perception et de l'Action   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTESIANS; DESCARTES; FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION CODING; ORGAN TRANSPLANTS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 22544456866     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801805X25963     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. M. Lock: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death; 2001, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press.
2. For an idea of what the princess Elisabeth looked like, call up image NPG 340 in the National Portrait Gallery's online catalogue, www.npg.org.uk/live/ search/asearch.asp. You can sense at once that this is a young woman in whom any sensible philosopher would take an interest.
3. A. Damasio: Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, 188; 2003, New York, NY, Harcourt.
4. Cf. for example the essays 'Mental events' and 'Philosophy as psychology' in D. Davidson: Essays on Actions and Events; 2001, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
5. For updates, cf. discussions by B. Ramberg and B. Vermazen, with Davidson's replies, in L. Hahn (ed.): The Philosophy of Donald Davidson; 1999, Peru, IL, Open Court.
6. M. Rozemond: Descartes's Dualism; 1998, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
7. M. Lock: Twice Dead (see Note 1).
8. A. S. Byatt: The feeling brain and the thinking body', Guardian Review, 2004, 14 February.
9. Quoted in I-D magazine, February 1992.
10. A. S. Byatt: 'Body art', in Little Black Book of Stories; 2003, London, Chatto & Windus.
11. N. Gordimer: None to Accompany Me, 200, 206; 1995, London, Penguin.