[Mental interiority in the early-modern age. The "Cartesian theater"].
This paper looks into the notion of mental interiority in the early-modern age and, more specifically, into the Cartesian conception of the mind as an "inner theater". The main claim emphasizes a close connexion at work between the representative theory of the mind, associated with internalism, on the one hand, and a "neuropsychological" view on the other hand. Cartesian mentalism, in so far as it is based upon a disjunction between representation and resemblance, can therefore not be separated from the general project, already at work in the Dioptrique, of an intra-cerebral localization of the mental.
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D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D009484:Neuropsychology / Q000266:history*; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*