... how, out of thin air, this ambitious, arrogant young man whose goals were perfection and mastery created the mind/body dualism that haunts us three centuries later. If his work had never been published, what would modern science look like? Are we so desirous of certainty, of the final, indisputable truth (e.g. see Dewey, 1929) that we would have spawned another Descartes to protect us from contingency and doubt?
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