Daniel Schmal

• Pázmány Péter Catholic University

This remarkable open access collection of scholarly studies by internationally distinguished experts explores the intricate and multifaceted philosophical concepts of the Self as understood in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early modern period. The contributors weave together a rich tapestry of historical and comparative case studies that highlight...

Descartes divides his treatment of the theology of the Eucharist into two closely related questions: the problem of real accidents and the problem of real presence. Scholarly work has tended to focus on the first question. Its overrepresentation in the secondary literature is understandable in light of Descartes’s preoccupation with real accidents...

This paper focuses on the late seventeenth-century discourse on “pure” or “disinterested love” (amour pur, amour désintéressé). The central claim is that the mystical writers’ critique against amour-propre threatens the system of esteem so that late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century debates around pure love (the so called “amour pur debate”...

The aim of this paper is to examine Francis Glisson’s theory of perception insofar as it concerns the lowest class of living beings: plants. Plants have a special status, they are located between inanimate objects and animals in the hierarchy of being. Unlike the former, they are organic, but unlike the latter they are unconscious. Peculiar to Glis...

The papers presented here are the result of the conference “What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity” which took place July 11–15, 2016. The conference was organized by ISSEI (The International Society for the Study of European Ideas) and the Faculty of International and Political Studies, University of Lodz, Poland. It...

Although Descartes has often been portrayed as the father of the modern concept of mind, his approach to consciousness is notoriously problematic. What makes it particularly hard to assess his role in the development of the theories of consciousness is the difficulty of clarifying the kind of consciousness he might have in mind when using the assoc...

Although Descartes's ideas regarding consciousness and memory have been studied extensively, few attempts have been made to address their systemic relations. In order to redress this deficiency, I argue in favor of three interrelated theses. The first is that intellectual memory has a crucial role to play in Descartes's concept of consciousness, es...

Martin és Barresi (2000) szerint a személyes azonosság locke-i elmélete döntő szerepet játszott a lélek naturalizálásának történetében, mert elsőként tekintette az én azonosításához szükséges tudatállapotokat a metafizikai bázisuktól függetlenül vizsgálható empirikus adatoknak. Feltéve, hogy a tudatállapotok összefüggése hordozófüggetlen kognitív r...

“Scientia” is a long-standing heritage of Aristotelian logic and denotes an epistemic ideal pursued through several centuries. According to Aristotle’s (1984) Posterior Analytics, knowledge that conforms to this ideal must consist of propositions that are universally and necessarily true. This necessity can be demonstrated through syllogistic infer...

Dániel Schmal’s paper poses the question of why Leibniz assigned no reality to the infinitely small numbers used in the infinitesimal calculus. He argues that Leibniz’s position can be understood not so much from his mathematics but rather from his metaphysics and epistemology. Seen from this perspective, it is a common feature of the phenomena of...

Le XVIIe siècle est souvent présenté comme le siècle de la raison, mais cette évidence ne doit pas faire oublier qu’il fut d’abord une époque de crise et de rupture par rapport aux Anciens et à l’École. Confronté à l’incapacité des philosophies antérieures de parvenir à une certitude incontestée, l’esprit en vient à douter de lui-même, à s’interrog...