Insight and Inference : Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy
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Overview
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 re-interpretations 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.
A meticulous, scholarly, and exhaustive analysis, this book provides a minutely detailed reading of each word of Descartes's founding principle, exploring in great depth the underlying epistemology and ontology. The book will fully repay a careful reading by any serious student of Descartes's philosophy.
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- ISBN-13: 9780802043153
- ISBN-10: 0802043151
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publish Date: March 1999
- Dimensions: 9.22 x 6.46 x 1.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.99 pounds
- Page Count: 600
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