Soul, Mind and Brain from Descartes to Cognitive Science by Paolo Pecere

Author:Paolo Pecere
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030514631
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

34On this debate see Rozemond (2009).

35These localization hypotheses were popular in the British scientific community until the nineteenth century. See Smith 1987, 126.

36In the Philosophiae naturalis theoria, redacta ad unicam legem virium in natura existentium (first ed. 1758, revised ed. 1763), Boscovich expanded Newton’s approach presenting a new law of a single force, that included attractive and repulsive effects depending on the distance between points. To be sure, Boscovich was no materialist and he contended that his law of forces was underdetermined with respect to hypotheses about whether the power was “an intrinsic property of indivisible points”, “something substantial or accidental superadded to them”, or “an arbitrary law of the Author of Nature, who directs these motions by a law made according to His Will”. He concluded that “phenomena […] are the same in all these theories” (Boscovich 1922, 183).

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