“A Necessary Preparative to the Study of Philosophy”: A Positive Appraisal of Descartes’ Universal Doubt

The European Legacy 27 (3-4):239-250 (2022)
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My main concern in this article is to arrive at a clear view of the nature, extent, and value of Descartes’ universal doubt, not to determine whether Hume’s critique of Cartesian doubt is compellin...

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