Descartes Against the Skeptics
Author: Edwin M. Curley
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 272
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Author: Edwin M. Curley
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edwin M. Curley
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781583484357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKE. M. Curley is known for his skill at lucid exposition and cogen analysis of seventeenth-century philosophy. In this book he turns to Descartes, who remains a central figure in the Western philosophical tradition. While dealing with most of Descartes' seminal contributions, he concentrates on the issues that pose special problems for modern students: the dream argument, knowledge of one's own existence and mental states, the circle, the arguments for God's existence, and the claim that mind and body are distinct.
Author: E. M. Curley
Publisher:
Published: 1978-02-05
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780674330238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. M. Curley
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780631190103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janet Broughton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-01-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1400825040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescartes thought that we could achieve absolute certainty by starting with radical doubt. He adopts this strategy in the Meditations on First Philosophy, where he raises sweeping doubts with the famous dream argument and the hypothesis of an evil demon. But why did Descartes think we should take these exaggerated doubts seriously? And if we do take them seriously, how did he think any of our beliefs could ever escape them? Janet Broughton undertakes a close study of Descartes's first three meditations to answer these questions and to present a fresh way of understanding precisely what Descartes was up to. Broughton first contrasts Descartes's doubts with those of the ancient skeptics, arguing that Cartesian doubt has a novel structure and a distinctive relation to the commonsense outlook of everyday life. She then argues that Descartes pursues absolute certainty by uncovering the conditions that make his radical doubt possible. She gives a unified account of how Descartes uses this strategy, first to find certainty about his own existence and then to argue that God exists. Drawing on this analysis, Broughton provides a new way to understand Descartes's insistence that he hasn't argued in a circle, and she measures his ambitions against those of contemporary philosophers who use transcendental arguments in their efforts to defeat skepticism. The book is a powerful contribution both to the history of philosophy and to current debates in epistemology.
Author: Jessica Berry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0195368428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work presents a portrait of Nietzsche as the skeptic par excellence in the modern period, by demonstrating how a careful and informed understanding of ancient Pyrrhonism illuminates his reflections on truth, knowledge and morality, as well as the very nature and value of philosophic inquiry.
Author: René Descartes
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780941736121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2000-03-15
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1603840176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
Author: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004-07-22
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0190290897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the history of philosophy, skepticism has posed one of the central challenges of epistemology. Opponents of skepticism--including externalists, contextualists, foundationalists, and coherentists--have focussed largely on one particular variety of skepticism, often called Cartesian or Academic skepticism, which makes the radical claim that nobody can know anything. However, this version of skepticism is something of a straw man, since virtually no philosopher endorses this radical skeptical claim. The only skeptical view that has been truly held--by Sextus, Montaigne, Hume, Wittgenstein, and, most recently, Robert Fogelin--has been Pyrrohnian skepticism. Pyrrhonian skeptics do not assert Cartesian skepticism, but neither do they deny it. The Pyrrhonian skeptics' doubts run so deep that they suspend belief even about Cartesian skepticism and its denial. Nonetheless, some Pyrrhonians argue that they can still hold "common beliefs of everyday life" and can even claim to know some truths in an everyday way. This edited volume presents previously unpublished articles on this subject by a strikingly impressive group of philosophers, who engage with both historical and contemporary versions of Pyrrhonian skepticism. Among them are Gisela Striker, Janet Broughton, Don Garrett, Ken Winkler, Hans Sluga, Ernest Sosa, Michael Williams, Barry Stroud, Robert Fogelin, and Roy Sorensen. This volume is thematically unified and will interest a broad spectrum of scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy.
Author: Genia Schönbaumsfeld
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0198783949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Illusion of Doubt confronts one of the most important questions in philosophy: what can we know? The radical sceptic's answer is 'not very much' if we cannot prove that we are not subject to (permanent) deception. This book shows that the radical sceptical problem is an illusion created by a mistaken picture of our evidential situation.