Insight & Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle & Modern Philosophy - Couverture rigide

Miles, Murray

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802043151 ISBN 13 : 9780802043153

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum, Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Modern Philosophy that is very different from the standard one.

Viewing Descartes in both a historical and a systematic perspective, Miles presents a wealth of original analyses, arguments, and re-interpretations of key texts. The result is a fresh and illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysical project and theory of the mind. 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, yet is free of the metaphysical idealism that some of his successors went on to embrace.

A meticulous, scholarly, and exhaustive analysis, this book provides a minutely detailed reading of each word of Descartes's founding principle, exploring in great depth the underlying epistemology and ontology. The book will fully repay a careful reading by any serious student of Descartes's philosophy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Murray Miles is a professor of philosophy at Brock University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802043151
• ISBN 13: 9780802043153
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible