Cogito? : Descartes and thinking the world / Joseph Almog.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almog, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 120 pages)

Other Title:

Descartes and thinking the world

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Decartes' maxim 'Cogito, ergo sum' is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. This volume looks at the first half of the proposition - cogito. Almog calls this the 'thinking man's paradox' - that there can be, in the natural world and as part and parcel of it, a creature that thinks.

Contents:

Synopsis : the thinking-man paradox

Thinking about the sun I : the fundamental case

Thinking about the sun II : thinking-about versus knowing-which

Thinking about God (and nature-as-a-whole)

Descartes' cosmological invariants I : thinking

Descartes' cosmological invariants II : knowing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-114) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-045075-4

1-281-85208-2

9786611852085

0-19-971392-8

1-4356-3380-6

OCLC:

213465659