| Title : | Descartes : a Collection of Critical Essays |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Willis Doney, Editor |
| Publisher: | Cardiff City, New York : A Doubleday Anchor Original |
| Publication Date: | 1967 |
| Pagination: | 386 p. |
| Size: | 18 cm |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]- 386) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Philosophy
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| Class number: | 100 |
| Abstract: | With two exceptions, the studies of Descartes and Cartesian problems that are assembled here were written in English or by British or American philosophers. All of them were written after 1925, most of them fairly recently, and some have not been published before. The two exceptions are Émile Bréhier's “La Création des vérités éternelles dans le système de Descartes” and P. H. J. Hoenen's account of Descartes's Mechanicism in his Cosmologia. Both, which appear here in translation, contain interpretations that, to the best of my knowledge, are not represented in the rapidly growing literature on Descartes in English. They also have an important bearing on problems that are now being discussed. The discussions in general are directed toward views and argu ments in Descartes that have been of special concern to philosophers whose interest in Descartes has been related to, or has been conjoined with, their interest in the theory of knowl edge and adjoining problems in metaphysics. The theory of knowledge or epistemology has occupied-on some estimates preoccupied-a great many philosophers in English-speaking countries. |
| Contents note: | Dreaming and Skepticism; 'I think, therefore I am; The Certainty of the Cogito; Cogito, Ergo Sum: Inference or Performance?; Descartes's Meditations; The Basis of Knowledge in Descartes; The Creation of the Eternal Truths in Descartes's; Descartes on Ideas; The Ontological Argument Revisited; Alston on the Ontological Argument; Descartes's Proof that His Essence is Thinking; Descartes's Mechanicism; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19813 |
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