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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Edición: | First Princeton edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.