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The plain truth Descartes, Huet, and skepticism /

Main Author: Lennon, Thomas M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 170
Subjects:
Descartes, Renβe, > 1596-1650.
Huet, Pierre-Daniel, > 1630-1721.
Skepticism.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10363901
Table of Contents:
  • People
  • Who was Huet?
  • The Censura : why and when?
  • The birth of skepticism
  • Malebranche's surprising silence
  • The downfall of Cartesianism
  • Kinds
  • Huet a Cartesian?
  • Descartes and skepticism : the standard interpretation
  • Descartes and skepticism : the texts
  • Thoughts
  • The cogito : an inference?
  • The transparency of mind
  • The cogito as pragmatic tautology
  • Doubts
  • The reality of doubt
  • The generation of doubt
  • The response to doubt
  • Rules
  • The criterion of truth
  • The trump argument
  • Circles
  • The simple circularity of the Meditations
  • The inner circle(s)
  • Gods
  • Gassendist influences
  • The objections of objections
  • The rejection of intentionality
  • Virtues
  • Descartes's voice
  • Betting the family farm
  • The propagation of light
  • The heart-beat
  • The moving earth
  • Faith and reason
  • Descartes as methodological academic skeptic.

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