Princess Elisabeth and the Problem of Mind-Body Interaction

Deborah Perron Tollefsen

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Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought Historical Philosophy and Science Early Modern Women Writers

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This paper focuses on Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's philosophical views as exhibited in her early correspondence with Rene Descartes. Elisabeth's criticisms of Descartes's interactionism as well as her solution to the problem of mind-body interaction are examined in detail. The aim here is to develop a richer picture of Elisabeth as a philosophical thinker and to dispel the myth that she is simply a Cartesian muse.

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