Insight and inference: Descartes's founding principle and modern philosophy

Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1999)
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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, ...

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B1878.M5.M55 1999

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10.3138/9781442676190

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Contents.  (pages ix-xiv)Murray Miles
Frontmatter.  (pages i-viii)Murray Miles
Preface.Murray Miles
Introduction.  (pages 1-2)Murray Miles
1. The "Twin Pillars" of Cartesianism.  (pages 3-10)Murray Miles
2. Scholastic-Aristotelian Metaphysics.  (pages 11-23)Murray Miles
3. Cartesian Metaphysics.  (pages 24-38)Murray Miles
4. The New Order of Knowing.  (pages 39-44)Murray Miles
5. Synopsis.  (pages 45-54)Murray Miles
6. Descartes's Definition of 'Thought'.  (pages 55-67)Murray Miles
Part one: Thought and consciousness.  (pages 55-55)Murray Miles
7. Thought, Consciousness, and 'the Cogito'.  (pages 68-85)Murray Miles
8. The Structure of Thought.  (pages 86-95)Murray Miles
9. Pure and Empirical Thought.  (pages 96-106)Murray Miles
10. The Degrees of Certainty.  (pages 107-147)Murray Miles
11. The Kinds of Certainty.  (pages 148-164)Murray Miles
12. The Modalities of Truth.  (pages 165-183)Murray Miles
13. Truth and Correspondence.  (pages 184-204)Murray Miles
14. Certainty and Circularity.  (pages 205-228)Murray Miles
15. Consciousness, Thought, and Reflexion.  (pages 229-262)Murray Miles
16. Idea and Object.  (pages 263-278)Murray Miles
17. The Inferential Import of the Ergo.  (pages 279-290)Murray Miles
18. Reflexion and Innateness.  (pages 291-320)Murray Miles
19. The Model of the Mind.  (pages 321-335)Murray Miles
20. Experience and Induction.  (pages 336-360)Murray Miles
21. Realism, Subjectivism, and Transcendence.  (pages 361-377)Murray Miles
22. The Old and the New Metaphysics.  (pages 378-390)Murray Miles
Notes.  (pages 391-530)Murray Miles
References.  (pages 531-546)Murray Miles
Index.  (pages 547-564)Murray Miles

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Descartes’s Clarity First Epistemology.Elliot Samuel Paul - forthcoming - In Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup, The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd edition. Wiley Blackwell.

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