Silencing the Demon’s Advocate: The Strategy of Descartes’ <I>Meditations</I>

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Stanford University Press, 23‏/04‏/2008 - 187 من الصفحات
The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy for the attainment of certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract grounds for doubt.
 

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Doubt I
8
Certainty and Stability
24
Method
34
The Riddle of the Cogito
44
From Self to God
61
The Validation of Intuition
88
Clarity and Distinctness
106
Gods Essence and Existence
121
Mind and Body
136
Empirical Knowledge
155
Notes
173
References
183
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Ronald Rubin is Professor of the History of Ideas at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges. Among his published works are Formal Logic: A Model of English (1989) and a translation of Descartes' Meditations (1984).

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