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The Concept of Mind — Gilbert Ryle
The foundational critique of Cartesian dualism and the “ghost in the machine.”
Spinoza: The First Anti-Cartesian — R.F. Hadot (ID Studies)
Spinoza’s monism as a radical break from Cartesian metaphysics.
The Crisis of European Sciences — Edmund Husserl
A devastating critique of objectivism rooted in Cartesian abstraction.
Kant’s Anti-Cartesian Revolt — J. Grier (Academia)
Kant’s reframing of the subject through transcendental conditions of knowledge.
On Being Anti-Cartesian: Hegel, Heidegger, Subjectivity, and Sociality — Robert Pippin
A philosophical lineage that dismantles Cartesian subjectivity.
Against Method — Paul Feyerabend
An anarchist philosophy of science that shatters rationalist foundations.
Charles Sanders Peirce: An Anti-Cartesian Revolution — João Queiroz (Academia)
Fallibilism, semiotics, and the overthrow of epistemic certainty.
Three Critics of the Enlightenment — Isaiah Berlin
Vico, Hamann, and Herder as poetic counterforces to rationalism.
The Myth of Metaphor — Colin Murray Turbayne
Deconstructs Cartesian metaphors that shaped modern scientific language.
Anti-Cartesianism and Anti-Brentanism — Jean-Michel Roy (PhilPapers)
Theoretical resistance to representationalism in philosophy of mind.
We Have Never Been Cartesian — Michel Bitbol (Springer)
A postphenomenological account of mind and embodiment.
Receptions of Descartes — Tad Schmaltz (NDPR)
Historical tensions and philosophical ruptures in early modern responses.
The Cultural Politics of Cartesianism — John A. Schuster (Springer)
Analyzes Cartesian epistemology as a product of power and institutional logic.
Physics Needs Philosophy. Philosophy Needs Physics — Carlo Rovelli
A physicist’s critique of metaphysical naïveté in science.
Does Thought Require Sensory Grounding? — David J. Chalmers (arXiv)
A cutting-edge challenge to the Cartesian model of disembodied thought.
From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism — Sanna Koskinen (University of Helsinki)
Rethinking ontology and cognition through radical immanence.
Post-Cartesian critiques of computationalism in AI.
Prehistory, Anti-Cartesianism, and the First-Person Viewpoint — Corijn van Mazijk (PhilPapers)
Phenomenology meets archaeology in the rethinking of prehistoric mind.
Anti-Cartesianism and James — Chandana Chakrabarti (PhilPapers)
William James’ radical empiricism and pluralistic metaphysics.
Locke as a stepping-stone toward psychological continuity theory.
Conversations with Enrique Dussel on Anti-Cartesian Decoloniality — Fornet-Betancourt
A decolonial dismantling of Descartes’ Eurocentric epistemology.
Philosophies of Embodiment and Anti-Dualism — Shaun Gallagher (open access selections)
Merges cognitive science and phenomenology to critique Cartesian internalism.