Descartes has confronted science with a hard problem: the mind-body or, in modern terms, the consciousness-matter problem. According to the current state of modern theoretical physics { which is, basically, quantum physics { the question arises if we really should expect to solve the problems of mind independently of the problems of matter. Strangely enough, modern philosophy of mind deals exte...

Trata-se de um estudo levantamento bibliográfico, objetivando descrever a integralidade do ser humano e importância cuidado holístico pela enfermagem, contraponto visão cartesiana existente. As pesquisas estudos foram realizadas em diversas plataformas digitais. Na Modernidade, René Descartes, filósofo francês iniciou o Racionalismo. Ele almejava chegar ao conhecimento absoluto, por meio da raz...

While medical historians have noted the continuing importance of the soul in seventeenth-century physiology, it is not generally recognized that there were systematic discussions of the role of the physiological soul even after it was banished from science by Descartes and Malebranche. In this paper I analyze important accounts of it by founding members of the Academie des Sciences who were phy...