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Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen : The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations /

In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification f...

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Autor principal: Frankfurt, Harry G., 1929- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Edición:First Princeton edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Part One: The First Meditation -- Introduction -- The general overthrow of belief -- The criterion of doubt -- The perception of the physical world -- The strategy of the first meditation -- Simple and universal things -- Mathematics in the first meditation -- Mathematics and the omnipotent deceiver -- Demons, dreamers, and madmen -- Part Two: Reason and Its Validation -- Sum -- Sum res cogitans -- Clear and distinct perception -- Objections to Descartes's rule of evidence -- Memory and doubt -- The validation of reason -- Truth and reality: the Galileo controversy. 
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