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Descartes reinvented / Tom Sorell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005Description: xxii, 180 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521851149
  • 9780521851145
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 22
LOC classification:
  • B1875 .S672 2005
Contents:
1. Radical doubt, the rational self, and inner space -- 2. Knowledge, the self, and internalism -- 3. The belief in foundations -- 4. Conscious experience and the mind -- 5. Reason, emotion, and action -- 6. Anthropology, misogyny, and anthropocentrism.
Review: "In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a reinterpretation Cartesianism and responds directly to the dislike of Descartes in contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism, which is characterized as realistic, antisceptical but respectful of skepticism, rationalist, centered on the first person, dualist, and dubious of the comprehensiveness of natural science and its supposed independence of metaphysics. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also shows for the first time how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian, despite its outward hostility to Cartesianism."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Radical doubt, the rational self, and inner space -- 2. Knowledge, the self, and internalism -- 3. The belief in foundations -- 4. Conscious experience and the mind -- 5. Reason, emotion, and action -- 6. Anthropology, misogyny, and anthropocentrism.

"In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a reinterpretation Cartesianism and responds directly to the dislike of Descartes in contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism, which is characterized as realistic, antisceptical but respectful of skepticism, rationalist, centered on the first person, dualist, and dubious of the comprehensiveness of natural science and its supposed independence of metaphysics. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also shows for the first time how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian, despite its outward hostility to Cartesianism."--BOOK JACKET.

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