The existence of the external world : the Pascal-Hume principle /
Do the objects that we perceive though our senses exist autonomously, independent of the mind that perceives them? Three and a half centuries have gone by without a universally acceptable solution. Jean-René Vernes shows that this failure results from the fundamental error in classical thinking, wh...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Ottawa [Ont.] :
University of Ottawa Press,
©2000.
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Colección: | Collection Philosophica ;
no. 54. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; foreword; introduction; chapter one: the cartesian revolution; chapter two: the copernican revolution in philosophy; chapter three: the foundations of probability theory; chapter four: the nature of explanation; chapter five: the existence of the external world; chapter six: the principle of sufficient reason; chapter seven: the second revolution in metaphysics; chapter eight: the existence of matter; conclusion; index of names.