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Cartesian truth / Thomas C. Vinci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vinci, Thomas C., 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Descartes, René.
- Sellars, Wilfrid.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing that science and metaphysics are inseparably linked in Descartes' work, and that one can't be understood without the other, the author offers a reconstruction of central parts of Descartes' metaphysics and theory of perception.
- Contents:
- Self-knowledge and the rule of truth
- Propositional awareness and nonpropositional awareness
- Intuitive knowledge and certain knowledge
- The method of clear and distinct ideas
- The first phase of Descartes's account of self-knowledge: meditation II
- The intuitive phase of Descartes's account of self-knowledge
- The rule of truth and the intuitive cogito
- Identifying intuitional awareness
- Foundationalism and privileged access revisited
- Defending Descartes against the charge of circularity
- Truth, existence, and ideas
- Descartes's concepts of truth and existence
- Descartes's general theory of existential reasoning
- The objective reality of ideas: the basic picture
- The ontological status of immutable essences
- Descartes's notion of eminent containment: an epistemic interpretation
- The third element of objective reality: the form or content of perceptions of objects
- Ideas as images: presentation versus representation
- Causes, existence, and ideas
- Descartes's causal principles and the rule of truth
- The fundamentality thesis and the main causal argument for the existence of God in meditation III
- The relation between the causal argument and the ontological argument
- The causal principle and the proof of the external world in meditation VI
- The proof of the external world in principles II, 1
- Descartes's ambivalence toward the senses
- Alternative accounts of Descartes's notion of eminent containment
- Inadequacy versus misperception in our idea of God
- The sense experience of primary qualities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-45381-8
- 9786610453818
- 0-19-802730-3
- 0-585-26332-9
- OCLC:
- 191826169
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