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
Summary
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, which identifies reason with determinant reason alone
Notes
Translation of: L'existence du monde extâerieur et l'erreur du rationalisme
