René Descartes, the Robots and the Soul in the debate between Tommaso Ceva and Guido Grandi

Descartes outlined human intelligence as a divine gift, albeit in a system governed by universal laws of physics and mathematics. In the eighteenth century the camaldolite Guido Grandi and Tommaso Ceva, both mathematicians, had a dispute about the interpretation of the Cartesian model of human intel...

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Main Author: Alfredo Serrai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2016-05-01
Series:Bibliothecae.it
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Online Access:https://bibliothecae.unibo.it/article/view/6105