The plain truth Descartes, Huet, and skepticism /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 170. |
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Table of Contents:
- People
- Who was Huet?
- The Censura : why and when?
- The birth of skepticism
- Malebranche's surprising silence
- The downfall of Cartesianism
- Kinds
- Huet a Cartesian?
- Descartes and skepticism : the standard interpretation
- Descartes and skepticism : the texts
- Thoughts
- The cogito : an inference?
- The transparency of mind
- The cogito as pragmatic tautology
- Doubts
- The reality of doubt
- The generation of doubt
- The response to doubt
- Rules
- The criterion of truth
- The trump argument
- Circles
- The simple circularity of the Meditations
- The inner circle(s)
- Gods
- Gassendist influences
- The objections of objections
- The rejection of intentionality
- Virtues
- Descartes's voice
- Betting the family farm
- The propagation of light
- The heart-beat
- The moving earth
- Faith and reason
- Descartes as methodological academic skeptic.