Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. Géraud 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.