Cartesian Truth
Cartesian Truth

Author: Thomas C. Vinci

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998-04-23

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0198027303

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Bold and pioneering, this book makes a detailed historical and systematic case that Descartes's theory of knowledge is an elegant and powerful combination of a priori, naturalistic, and dialectical elements meriting serious consideration by both contemporary analytic philosophers and postmodern thinkers. In the course of making this case Thomas Vinci develops a broad reinterpretation of Cartesian thought that unlocks novel solutions to many of the most vexed questions in Cartesian scholarship.

The Plain Truth
The Plain Truth

Author: Thomas M. Lennon

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9004171150

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This historical study of Pierre-Daniel Hueta (TM)s "Censura philosophiae cartesiana" (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartesa (TM)s philosophy: the method of doubt, the cogito, proofs of Goda (TM)s existence, etc.

The Will to Reason
The Will to Reason

Author: C. P. Ragland

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0190264454

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In 'Giving Aid Effectively', Mark T. Buntaine argues that countries that are members of international organizations have prompted multilateral development banks to give development and environmental aid more effectively by generating better information about performance.

Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes
Fable, Method, and Imagination in Descartes

Author: James Griffith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 3319702386

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What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology? By looking at Descartes’ use of fables, James Griffith suggests there is a fabular logic that runs to the heart of Descartes’ philosophy. First focusing on The World and the Discourse on Method, this volume shows that by writing in fable form, Descartes allowed his readers to break from Scholastic methods of philosophizing. With this fable-structure or -logic in mind, the book reexamines the relationship between analysis, synthesis, and inexact sciences; between metaphysics and ethico-political life; and between the imagination, the will, and the passions.

The Taming of the True
The Taming of the True

Author: Neil Tennant

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780199251605

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The Taming of the True defends and develops global semantic anti-realism. Neil Tennant argues compellingly that every truth is knowable, and that manifestationism in the theory of meaning entails logical reform. He extends semantic anti-realism to empirical discourse, developing new accounts of the analytic/synthetic distinction, cognitive significance and constructive falsifiability. The book has important consequences for the philosophy of mathematics and logic, the theory of meaning, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Cartesian Women
Cartesian Women

Author: Erica Harth

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801499982

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The little-known writings that Erica Harth examines here reveal a remarkable chapter in the history of Western thought. Drawing upon current theoretical work in gender studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, Harth looks at how women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France attempted to overcome gender barriers and participated in the shaping of rational discourse.

The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon

Author: Lawrence Nolan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 1642

ISBN-13: 1316380939

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The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.

Knowledge and Evidence
Knowledge and Evidence

Author: Paul K. Moser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780521423632

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Philosophers have sought to define knowledge since the time of Plato. This inquiry outlines a theory of rational belief by challenging prominent skeptical claims that we have no justified beliefs about the external world.

Descartes and the Enlightenment
Descartes and the Enlightenment

Author: Peter A. Schouls

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780773510142

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Peter Schouls examines the role played by the concepts of freedom, mastery, and progress in Descartes' writings, arguing that these ideas express a vital and fundamental feature of Descartes' thought. These theories also occupy a central position in the thought of the Enlightenment. Since the more contentious claim is that they function centrally in Descartes' works, Schouls presents a careful and detailed examination of the conjunction and use of these ideas in Descartes' writings. This examination warrants the conclusion that they play the same role in Descartes' works as they do in writings typical of the Enlightenment.