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1 online resource (xi, 255 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill's studies in intellectual history,
0920-8607 ;
v. 170
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Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 170.
0920-8607
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index. |
| Contents |
People -- Who was Huet? -- The Censura : why and when? -- The birth of skepticism -- Malebranche's surprising silence -- The downfall of Cartesianism -- Kinds -- Huet a Cartesian? -- Descartes and skepticism : the standard interpretation -- Descartes and skepticism : the texts -- Thoughts -- The cogito : an inference? -- The transparency of mind -- The cogito as pragmatic tautology -- Doubts -- The reality of doubt -- The generation of doubt -- The response to doubt -- Rules -- The criterion of truth -- The trump argument -- Circles -- The simple circularity of the Meditations -- The inner circle(s) -- Gods -- Gassendist influences -- The objections of objections -- The rejection of intentionality -- Virtues -- Descartes's voice -- Betting the family farm -- The propagation of light -- The heart-beat -- The moving earth -- Faith and reason -- Descartes as methodological academic skeptic. |
| Summary |
Offers a study of Pierre-Daniel Huet's "Censura philosophiae cartesiana" (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, and shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartes' philosophy: the method of doubt, the cogito, and proofs of God's existence. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721.
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Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721. |
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Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. |
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Descartes, René. |
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Huet, Pierre Daniel. |
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Skepticism.
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Skepticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lennon, Thomas M. Plain truth. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 (DLC) 2008029282 |
| ISBN |
9789047424468 (electronic book) |
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9047424468 (electronic book) |
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9789004171152 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004171150 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004171152.i-258 |
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