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1 online resource (xviii, 564 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Toronto studies in philosophy
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Toronto studies in philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. "Twin Pillars" of Cartesianism. 2. Scholastic-Aristotelian Metaphysics. 3. Cartesian Metaphysics. 4. New Order of Knowing. 5. Synopsis -- pt. 1. Thought and Consciousness. 6. Descartes's Definition of 'Thought'. 7. Thought, Consciousness, and 'the Cogito'. 8. Structure of Thought. 9. Pure and Empirical Thought -- pt. 2. Certainty and Truth. 10. Degrees of Certainty. 11. Kinds of Certainty. 12. Modalities of Truth. 13. Truth and Correspondence. 14. Certainty and Circularity -- pt. 3. Reflexion and Inference. 15. Consciousness, Thought, and Reflexion. 16. Idea and Object. 17. Inferential Import of the Ergo. 18. Reflexion and Innateness. 19. Model of the Mind. 20. Experience and Induction. |
| Summary |
In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum, Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Modern Philosophy that is very different from the standard one. Viewing Descartes in both a historical and a systematic perspective, Miles presents a wealth of original analyses, arguments, and reinterpretations of key texts. The result is a fresh and illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysical project and theory of the mind. Descartes's achievement is a radical reversal of the order of knowing, a subjectivism that places knowledge of the mind ahead of knowledge of material things, yet is free of the metaphysical idealism that some of his successors went on to embrace. |
| 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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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Descartes, René. |
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Et la métaphysique. |
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Descartes, René. |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miles, Murray Lewis. Insight and inference. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1999 0802043151 (DLC) 00550519 (OCoLC)39355007 |
| ISBN |
9781442676190 (electronic book) |
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1442676191 (electronic book) |
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0802043151 |
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9780802043153 |
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