Rethinking Descartes’s Substance Dualism

Dr Lynda Gaudemard is an Associate Researcher and Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-en-Provence) where she received her PhD in 2012. She is also Lay Assessor at the Juvenile Court (Marseille). She was Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Geneva and Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Lausanne. She specializes in early modern philosophy with a focus on René Descartes. She is also author of articles on bioethics and children’s rights.

• Introduction-Why substance dualism is not over.- PART I CHALLENGING THE CARTESIAN MIND PARADIGM (COMPLETED).- Chapter 1 Descartes’s argument for substance dualism.- Chapter 2 The modal distinction between mind and imagination.- Chapter 3 Imagination as an essential property of the human mind.- PART II THE CARTESIAN HUMAN BODY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SELF.- Chapter 4   Notions of emergence.- Chapter 5   Contemporary versions of substance emergent dualism.- Chapter 6   A ‘well disposed’ human body : Descartes’s emergent substance dualism.- Chapter 7  Two kinds of extension.- Conclusion-Descartes’s legacy.- Bibliography.- Index.