None of these "nativists" literally believes in mind/ body dualism, but insofar as they cling to the central functionalist dogma that mind can be instantiated in any physical system they de facto treat mind as something that can be considered apart from embodiment, and they embrace, more or less, an overtly Cartesian methodology, which Jerry Fodor has called "methodological solipsism...
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Only when the history of philosophy was rewritten in the nineteenth century as the story of epistemology did Descartes come to bear the double designation of being both the "father" of modern philosophy and the ranking nativist who visited upon us the catastrophic separation of mind from body and of reason from emotion...
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Descartes Third Meditation So from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists." Descartes also reveals that God is not a deceiver. Descartes knows that a perfect being has no faults...	2 / 401
Descartes: ttrue belief and knowledge Thus he concluded that the senses could be deceived and could in fact be transmitting false knowledge. He went further to insinuate that the world that we are in may not be real; it could in fact be a figment of our dreams...	12 / 3167
Descartes Third Meditation In the third meditation Descartes uses his existence as an example to find out whether God exist. Descartes explanation is whatever he perceived clear and distinct is true...	1 / 225
Descartes- 2nd Meditation This is unsatisfactory since this requires investigating into the notions of 'rational' and 'animal.' Continuing his quest for identity, he recalls a more general view he previously had of his identity; he is composed of both body and soul...	3 / 820