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Against Cartesian philosophy = Censura philosophiae Cartesianae / Pierre-Daniel Huet ; edited, translated, annotated, and introduced by Thomas M. Lennon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huet, Pierre-Daniel, 1630-1721.
- Series:
- JHP books series
- Standardized Title:
- Censura philosophiae Cartesianae. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Descartes, René.
- Physical Description:
- 248 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- This is the first English translation of the Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae, by Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), an erudite cleric, teacher, philosopher, and scientist, and one of the most accomplished intellectuals of the age. The Censura is the most comprehensive, unrelenting, and devastating critique of Descartes ever published. Anticipating the issues that have occupied Cartesian scholarship for the past half-century, Huet argues at length that Descartes' philosophy fails on many counts: his methodology of doubting; the reliability of his famous cogito ("I think, therefore I am"); clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth; his proofs for the existence of God; the circularity of Descartes' main argument in the Meditations; and numerous other points. Complete with a long introduction explaining the circumstances, history, and importance of the work, this firstever translation and edition of Huet's Censura brings to light a neglected but important work.
- Contents:
- Apparatus 13
- Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae 43
- Chapter 1 An Exposition of Descartes's View on Doubt, and of the Argument 'I Am Thinking, Therefore I Am' 67
- Chapter 2 An Examination of Descartes's View of the Criterion 113
- Chapter 3 A Consideration of Descartes's View of the Human Mind 135
- Chapter 4 An Evaluation of Descartes's View of the Existence of God 153
- Chapter 5 An Evaluation of Descartes's View of Body and the Void 175
- Chapter 6 An Explanation of Descartes's View concerning the Origin of the Visible World 185
- Chapter 7 An Evaluation of Descartes's View concerning the Cause of Gravity of Terrestrial Bodies 191
- Chapter 8 A General Evaluation of the Cartesian Philosophy 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1591021022
- OCLC:
- 52302194
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