René Descartes held a mechanistic view of matter, asserting that bodies function as machines according to their own laws, except when influenced by minds.

Authors

• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

Sources

• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• matter concept
• René Descartes entity
• minds concept
• machines concept