Descartes' Cogito Saved from the Great Shipwreck

Name: Descartes' Cogito Saved from the Great Shipwreck
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ISBN: 9780521037341

ISBN-10: 0521037344

ISBN-13: 9780521037341

Edition: 2007

Authors: Husain Sarkar

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Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes cogito I think, therefore I am. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relation of these to the will, memory, the nature of intuition and deduction, the nature, content and elusiveness of I, and the tenability of the doctrine of the creation of eternal truths. Finally, the book demonstrates how Descartes' attempt to prove the…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations



The prolegomena to any future epistemology



The problem of epistemology



The solution: cogito



A skeptic against reason



The five ways



Cogito: not an argument



The content of the cogito



Memory, explanation, and will


Appendices


Bibliography


Name index


Subject index