Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck

ISBN-13: 9780521821667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 326 str.

Husain Sarkar

Opis

Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito "I think therefore I am." Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative new interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this new interpretative lens, Sarkar reconsiders key Cartesian topics. He demonstrates how Descartes' attempt to prove the existence of God is foiled by a new Cartesian Circle.

Recenzje

'The first original interpretation of the Meditations to appear since the studies of Margaret Wilson and Bernard Williams in the 1970s. Husain Sarkar's handling of the Cartesian argument brings a … level of sophistication to the discussion of this classic text.' Catherine Wilson, University of British Columbia

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. The prolegomena to any future epistemology; 2. The problem of epistemology; 3. The solution: cogito; 4. A skeptic against reason; 5. The five ways; 6. Cogito: not an argument; 7. The content of the cogito; 8. Memory, explanation, and will; Appendices; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index.