| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 564 pages) |
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Toronto studies in philosophy |
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Toronto studies in philosophy.
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| Contents |
1. The "Twin Pillars" of Cartesianism. 2. Scholastic-Aristotelian Metaphysics. 3. Cartesian Metaphysics. 4. The New Order of Knowing. 5. Synopsis -- pt. 1. Thought and Consciousness. 6. Descartes's Definition of 'Thought'. 7. Thought, Consciousness, and 'the Cogito'. 8. The Structure of Thought. 9. Pure and Empirical Thought -- pt. 2. Certainty and Truth. 10. The Degrees of Certainty. 11. The Kinds of Certainty. 12. The Modalities of Truth. 13. Truth and Correspondence. 14. Certainty and Circularity -- pt. 3. Reflexion and Inference. 15. Consciousness, Thought, and Reflexion. 16. Idea and Object. 17. The Inferential Import of the Ergo. 18. Reflexion and Innateness. 19. The Model of the Mind. 20. Experience and Induction |
| Summary |
In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum, Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Modern Philosophy that is very different from the standard one. Viewing Descartes in both a historical and a systematic perspective, Miles presents a wealth of original analyses, arguments, and reinterpretations of key texts. The result is a fresh and illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysical project and theory of the mind. Descartes's achievement is a radical reversal of the order of knowing, a subjectivism that places knowledge of the mind ahead of knowledge of material things, yet is free of the metaphysical idealism that some of his successors went on to embrace |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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| SUBJECT |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast |
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Descartes, René swd |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics -- History -- 17th century
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First philosophy.
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Metaphysics
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metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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First philosophy
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Metaphysics
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Cogito ergo sum
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Metaphysik
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442676190 |
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1442676191 |
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9781442615021 |
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1442615028 |
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