Descartes And The Doubting Mind
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| Author | : James Hill |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2011-12-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1441179860 |
Descartes' characterisation of the mind as a 'thinking thing' marks the beginning of modern philosophy of mind. It is also the point of departure for Descartes' own system in which the mind is the first object of knowledge for those who reason in an 'orderly way'. This ground-breaking book shows that the Cartesian mind has been widely misunderstood: typically treated as simply the subject of phenomenal consciousness, ignoring its deeply intellectual character. James Hill argues that this interpretation has gone hand in hand with a misreading of Descartes' method of doubt which treats it as all-inclusive and universal in scope. In fact, the sceptical arguments of the First Meditation aim to lead the mind away from the senses and towards the intellectual 'notions' that the mind has within it, and which are never the subject of doubt. Hill also places Descartes' concept of mind into the wider setting of his science of nature, showing how he wished to reveal a mental subject that would able to comprehend the new physics necessitated by Copernicus' heliocentrism.
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : First philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780941736121 |
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780300067736 |
Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2008-04-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 080477966X |
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.
| Author | : Husain Sarkar |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2003-02-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139442031 |
Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think, therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relation of these to the will, memory, the nature of intuition and deduction, the nature, content and elusiveness of 'I', and the tenability of the doctrine of the creation of eternal truths. Finally, the book demonstrates how Descartes' attempt to prove the existence of God is foiled by a new Cartesian Circle.
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2006-03-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1603840567 |
This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.
| Author | : Gilles Deleuze |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2004-01-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
An anthology of 40 texts and interviews written over 20 years by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, of which the early texts belong to literary criticism. Philosophy clearly dominates the rest of the book with a surprise admission by Deleuze that Sartre was his master.
| Author | : H. Ben-Yami |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2015-05-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1137512024 |
Ben-Yami shows how the technology of Descartes' time shapes his conception of life, soul and mind–body dualism; how Descartes' analytic geometry helps him develop his revolutionary conception of representation without resemblance; and how these ideas combine to shape his new and influential theory of perception.
| Author | : Jean-Luc Marion, |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2018-04-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 022619261X |
On Descartes’ Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosophers. In it, Jean-Luc Marion examines anew some of the questions left unresolved in his previous books about Descartes, with a particular focus on Descartes’s theory of morals and the passions. Descartes has long been associated with mind-body dualism, but Marion argues here that this is a historical misattribution, popularized by Malebranche and popular ever since both within the academy and with the general public. Actually, Marion shows, Descartes held a holistic conception of body and mind. He called it the meum corpus, a passive mode of thinking, which implies far more than just pure mind—rather, it signifies a mind directly connected to the body: the human being that I am. Understood in this new light, the Descartes Marion uncovers through close readings of works such as Passions of the Soul resists prominent criticisms leveled at him by twentieth-century figures like Husserl and Heidegger, and even anticipates the non-dualistic, phenomenological concepts of human being discussed today. This is a momentous book that no serious historian of philosophy will be able to ignore.
| Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2017-01-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191085189 |
This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings. Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson split the volume into four distinct parts; Cartesian Science, Mind and Perception, Actions and Passions, and Cartesian Woman. The contributors are internationally known and respected scholars of 17th century philosophy writing on a number of their favourite Cartesian topics.
