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| Dec 8, 2022 at 15:35 | vote | accept | postnubilaphoebus | ||
| Jun 1, 2017 at 13:41 | comment | added | virmaior | That's my basic sense on this. Descartes had his own view. He'd never heard the term "interactionism"; some person or group thought it was a useful category for doing history of phil and put him in it. Did they interpret him correctly in doing so? I don't know the answer to that necessarily, but that's why there's this category. | |
| Jun 1, 2017 at 12:41 | comment | added | postnubilaphoebus | @virmaior So, you're saying, that it is not really necessary to answer this question, since you are squeezing somebody into categories post-hoc? | |
| May 30, 2017 at 23:23 | comment | added | virmaior | To state an opposite example, Hare's two-level utilitarianism is a species of utilitarianism, but that's because he's modifying utilitarianism's general approach to solve what he perceives as a problem. Here, Descartes never calls himself an "interactionist" and the term probably didn't exist then. So it's difficult to parse out the relation except as "Bob decided to group A,B,C, and D together as things that have a form of 'interactionism'" (but n.b. it's not even clear what the OP is asking here). | |
| May 30, 2017 at 23:19 | comment | added | virmaior | @AlexanderSKing I don't think I'm asserting the same thing as Nanhee. To reword my comment (I don't know enough about the term "interactionism" to answer), Descartes has his view, which someone has placed into a recently manufactured category called "interactionism" along with other things. Why they've manufactured the category and what they think it unites and whether they read Descartes correctly are all things I don't know. (For many later descriptive categories, it's questionable whether they have value over just learning the views they categorize). | |
| May 30, 2017 at 17:24 | comment | added | Alexander S King | @virmaior see my comment to Nanhee. | |
| May 30, 2017 at 16:47 | answer | added | Nanhee Byrnes PhD | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 0:38 | comment | added | virmaior | What is the difference between a squirrel and a rodent? (= same type of difference; one is a category of views that fit a pattern vs. a particular view that is in the category) | |
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