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Descartes' cogito : saved from the great shipwreck /
Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative new interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The prolegomena to any future epistemology
- The making of an ideal seeker
- The method: the rationalist thread
- The tree of philosophy
- Method, morals, and bootstraps
- 2. The problem of epistemology
- Types of problems
- Directive to dismantle
- Two models of doubt
- Doubt and principles
- 3. The solution: cogito
- The nature of the first principle
- The thought experiment
- The experiment evaluated
- The Eucharist objection
- Doubt and the cogito
- The general rule and truth
- 4. A skeptic against reason
- Why natural reason?
- "Buy all or nothing"
- Attempting to step out of the circle
- No escaping from the circle
- Another failed attempt
- How not to read the meditations: a skeptic's reply
- 5. The five ways
- The five ways ...
- ... Plus one
- 6. Cogito: not an argument
- The preliminaries
- The core of the claim
- The proof
- Skepticism and the theory of deduction
- 7. The content of the cogito
- A source of the mistake
- The content of the cogito
- Ryle and the elusive 'I'
- 8. Memory, explanation, and will
- The role of memory
- Discovery, explanation, and the new logic
- Will, cogito, and the purposes of God.