Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy - Brossura

Miles, Murray

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1442615028 ISBN 13: 9781442615021

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1999

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Murray Miles is a professor of philosophy at Brock University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1442615028
• ISBN 13: 9781442615021
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 277
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile