Descartes reinvented /

Descartes reinvented /

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Author / Creator:Sorell, Tom.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xxii, 180 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650.
Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813741
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ISBN:0511130651
9780511130656
9780511499289
0511499280
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0521851149
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9781280422393
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9780511129124
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a reinterpretation of Cartesianism and responds directly to the dislike of Descartes in contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism, which is characterized as realistic, antisceptical but respectful of scepticism, rationalist, centered on the first person, dualist, and dubious of the comprehensiveness of natural science and its supposed independence of metaphysics. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also shows for the first time how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian, despite its outward hostility to Cartesianism.
Other form:Print version: Sorell, Tom. Descartes reinvented. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005
Standard no.:100380870
Table of Contents:
  • Radical doubt and inner space
  • A doubt that over-reaches itself?
  • Unreconstructed Cartesianism : the target of doubt
  • The species-less self and God
  • The solipsistic self as the residue of the doubt : three claims of incoherence
  • Innocent Cartesianism in the theory of self-reference
  • Self-implicatingness and first person authority
  • Knowledge, the self and internalism
  • The autonomy of knowing and the "prejudices of childhood"
  • Externalism and reflectiveness
  • "Meta-epistemology" versus "normative epistemology"
  • Internalism and the ethics of belief
  • Internalism and externalism
  • The belief in foundations
  • Unreconstructed Cartesianism and the justification of the new science
  • Ideal method and actual practice
  • Kinds of success-of
  • science argument
  • Descartes's foundations and innocent Cartesian foundations
  • Another innocent cartesianism about foundations?
  • Conscious experience and the mind
  • Descartes's soul and unreconstructed Cartesianism about the mind
  • Toward innocent Cartesianism
  • Naturalism and "existential naturalism"
  • Reactions to irreducibility claims
  • Reason, emotion and action
  • Damasio's error
  • Cartesian practical reason
  • Innocent cartesianism about practical reason
  • Anthropology, misogyny, and anthropocentrism
  • Cartesian misogyny?
  • Cartesian speciesism
  • Lesser parts of worthwhile wholes and rationalist intervention.

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