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9 cze 2011 · Full catalog record. MARCXML. The works translated here are the 'Rules', the 'Method', the 'Meditation', with the 'Objections and replies', part of the 'Principles', the 'Search after...
3 gru 2008 · Descartes’ conclusion in Meditation VI that the senses do not reveal the “essential nature” of external objects (7:83) differs from his position in the Rules. In that work, he allowed that some “simple natures” pertaining to corporeal things can be known through the images of the senses (10:383, 417).
Rene Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher, generally regarded as the founder of modern Western philosophy. He is known for his epistemological foundationalism as expressed in the cogito (‘I think, therefore I am’), his metaphysical dualism, and his rationalism based on innate ideas of mind, matter, and God.
Versions of the cogito appear in each of Descartes’ three main published philosophical works. The “canonical” formulation (as I shall call it) includes an explicit inference – “I am thinking, therefore [ergo] I exist.”
18 kwi 1996 · This authoritative translation by John Cottingham, taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes, is based upon the best available texts...
26 lis 2018 · 4. Conclusion: Knowledge without Certainty. Descartes was impressed by the Cogito because he had found a belief that is certain and so, when believed, cannot be false. He thought that certainty was necessary for a belief to be known.
This process of doubt, while seemingly destructive, was, for Descartes, a necessary prelude to finding something indubitable – something he could know with absolute certainty. The "Cogito" Argument: I Think, Therefore I Am After systematically dismantling his previous beliefs, Descartes arrives at a pivotal point: the realization that even while
