Descartes talks about the presence of immaterial soul in material body multiple places his writings and letters. Interpreters do not agree whether he had mind substantial holenmeric or mere operational powers soul. I discuss both views this paper, argue that neither is plausible. The former turns out to be poorly motivated context Descartes?s other metaphysical commitments insufficiently textua...

Tatiana Bedarida,* Stephanie Baron,* Emilie Vessieres, Francoise Vibert, Audrey Ayer, Carmen Marchiol-Fournigault, Daniel Henrion, Jean-Louis Paul, Florence Noble, Jean-Louis Golmard, Jean-Louis Beaudeux, Charles-Henry Cottart, and Valerie Nivet-Antoine Unite Mixte de Recherche-S 1140 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Faculty of Pharmacy, Paris Descartes University, Par...

Ever since the first generation Cartesian Gerauld de Cordemoy wrote a selfstanding book dedicated to the problem of other minds philosophers have proceeded as though Descartes’ work entails some version of the problem. In this paper I evaluate Descartes’ own contribution to creating and answering skepticism about other minds. It is my contention, first, that for most of his working life Descart...

We investigate the Oja sign covariance matrix (Oja SCM) for estimating partial correlations in multivariate data. The Oja SCM estimates directly a multiple of the precision matrix and is based on the concept of Oja signs, which generalise the univariate sign function and obey some form of affine equivariance property. We compare it to the classical MLE as well as to estimates based on two alter...

This paper deals with the problem of finding sign occurrences in a sign language (SL) video. It begins with an analysis of sign models and the way they can take into account the sign variability. Then, we review the most popular technics dedicated to automatic sign language processing and we focus on their adaptation to model sign variability. We present a new method to provide a parametric des...

Alexandra Rolland, Institut de Physique du Globe, Université de Strasbourg, 5 rue René Descartes, 67084 cedex, Strasbourg, France ([email protected]) Renaud Toussaint, Institut de Physique du Globe, Université de Strasbourg, 5 rue René Descartes, 67084 cedex, Strasbourg, France ([email protected]) Patrick Baud, Institut de Physique du Globe, Université de Strasbourg, 5 rue ...

The Geometry is the only mathematical book written by Descartes. One can find somemathematical studies from his youth—constructions of proportional means and solutions of equations of third and fourth degrees—in the Regulae, the Excerpta Mathematica, and above all in the letters, mainly those to Beeckman, Mersenne, and Golius (Serfati2002, 56–72 and 95–104). All these subjects are treated in th...

of the approaches used by complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and indeed by all therapeutic models that offer a complex package of care – physical therapies, surgery, general practice and family medicine, psychotherapy, psychosomatic treatments, mind-body medicine – cannot be modeled along the lines laid out by the mechanistic paradigm. Not only cannot they be modeled along those line...

Priscilla Henno, Jean-François Boitiaux, Benoit Douvry, Aurélie Cazes, Marilyne Lévy, Philippe Devillier, Christophe Delclaux, and Dominique Israël-Biet Unité Propre de Recherche de l’Enseignement Supérieur EA 4068, UFR Biomédicale des Saints Pères, Paris; Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Faculté de Médecine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de Physiologie, Hôpital Saint Antoine,...