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