Cartesian truth.

Arguing that science and metaphysics are inseparably linked in Descartes' work, and that one can't be understood without the other, the author offers a reconstruction of central parts of Descartes' metaphysics and theory of perception.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vinci, Thomas C., 1949-
Autor Corporativo: Oxford University Press
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650.
Sellars, Wilfrid.
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650
Sellars, Wilfrid
Metaphysics.
Science > Philosophy.
Metaphysics
Métaphysique.
metaphysics.
Science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Primary Works Used or Cited
  • Introduction
  • One: Self-Knowledge and the Rule of Truth
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Propositional Awareness and Nonpropositional Awareness
  • 1.3. Intuitive Knowledge and Certain Knowledge
  • 1.4. The Method of Clear and Distinct Ideas
  • 1.5. The First Phase of Descartes's Account of Self-Knowledge: Meditation II
  • 1.6. The Intuitive Phase of Descartes's Account of Self-Knowledge
  • 1.7. The Rule of Truth and the Intuitive Cogito
  • 1.8. Identifying Intuitional Awareness
  • 1.9. Foundationalism and Privileged Access RevisitedAppendix A: Defending Descartes against the Charge of Circularity
  • Two: Truth, Existence, and Ideas
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Descartes's Concepts of Truth and Existence
  • 2.3. Descartes's General Theory of Existential Reasoning
  • 2.4. The Objective Reality of Ideas: The Basic Picture
  • 2.5. The Ontological Status of Immutable Essences
  • 2.6. Descartes's Notion of Eminent Containment: An Epistemic Interpretation
  • 2.7. The Third Element of Objective Reality: The Form or Content of Perceptions of Objects
  • 2.8. Ideas as Images: Presentation versus RepresentationThree: Causes, Existence, and Ideas
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Descartes's Causal Principles and the Rule of Truth
  • 3.3. The Fundamentality Thesis and the Main Causal Argument for the Existence of God in Meditation III
  • 3.4. The Relation between the Causal Argument and the Ontological Argument
  • 3.5. The Causal Principle and the Proof of the External World in Meditation VI
  • 3.6. The Proof of the External World in Principles II, 1
  • 3.7. Descartes's Ambivalence toward the Senses
  • Appendix A: Alternative Accounts of Descartes's Notion of Eminent ContainmentAppendix B: Inadequacy versus Misperception in our Idea of God
  • Four: The Sense Experience of Primary Qualities
  • 4.1. Some Background
  • 4.2. The Account of Sense Experience of Primary Qualities in Mature Cartesian Philosophy
  • 4.3. Descartes's Empirical Theory of the Sense Experience of Primary Qualities
  • 4.4. Referred Sensations
  • 4.5. Imaginal Images
  • Five: The Perceptual Representation of Ordinary Objects
  • 5.1. Descartes's Theory of Natural Signs: The Constitutive versus the Minimalist Interpretation5.2. Referral Judgments: What are They?
  • 5.3. Referral Judgments: Why Do We Make Them?
  • Six: The Theory of Natural Knowledge
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. The Account of Cognitive Impulse in the Rules for the Direction of the Mind
  • 6.3. The Mature Theory of Natural Reasons
  • 6.4. Natural Inclinations and the Proofs of the External World in Meditation VI and Principles II, 1
  • 6.5. Dispositions to Affirm Particular Properties of Corporeal Things

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