Géraud de Cordemoy : six discourses on the distinction between the body and the soul and treatises on metaphysics

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. Graud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (1666) offers a groundbreaking account of the mind and body, and one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation.