An anomaly in the Cartesian science of the passions: the case of intellectual emotions in Descartes’ Treatise of the Passion Authors Natanael F. Pacheco Cornejo Universitat de les Illes Balears Keywords: Descartes, science, intellectual emotions, physiology, physics, metaphysics, passions. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine a peculiar kind of emotions, intellectual emotions, in Descartes’ scientific treatise about the human emotions, the Treatise of the passions. In the first place, we will see the scope and limits of its approach «en physicien», and the need to consider a different approach to examine the nature of intellectual emotions, an approach en métaphysicien. Hereafter, we will develop this approach by analysing the structure of the intellectual emotions (its emotive and its epistemic dimension). Finally, we will conclude with some remarks about the complementarity of both approaches, physical and metaphysical, in Descartes’ scientific thought.Keywords: Descartes, science, intellectual emotions, physiology, physics, metaphysics, passions. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue Vol. 10 (2017) Section Dossier: Descartes and the Medicine License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
