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The plain truth : Descartes, Huet, and skepticism /

Offers a study of Pierre-Daniel Huet's "Censura philosophiae cartesiana" (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, and shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartes' philosophy: the method of doubt, the cogito, and proofs of God's exist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lennon, Thomas M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 170.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • People
  • Who was Huet?
  • The Censura : why and when?
  • The birth of skepticism
  • Malebranche's surprising silence
  • The downfall of Cartesianism
  • Kinds
  • Huet a Cartesian?
  • Descartes and skepticism : the standard interpretation
  • Descartes and skepticism : the texts
  • Thoughts
  • The cogito : an inference?
  • The transparency of mind
  • The cogito as pragmatic tautology
  • Doubts
  • The reality of doubt
  • The generation of doubt
  • The response to doubt
  • Rules
  • The criterion of truth
  • The trump argument
  • Circles
  • The simple circularity of the Meditations
  • The inner circle(s)
  • Gods
  • Gassendist influences
  • The objections of objections
  • The rejection of intentionality
  • Virtues
  • Descartes's voice
  • Betting the family farm
  • The propagation of light
  • The heart-beat
  • The moving earth
  • Faith and reason
  • Descartes as methodological academic skeptic.