ISBN:
9789004171152
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 255 S.
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history 170
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history
DDC:
194
Keywords:
Descartes, René
;
Huet, Pierre-Daniel
;
Descartes René
;
1596-1650
;
Huet Pierre-Daniel
;
1630-1721
;
Skepticism
;
Skepticism
;
Descartes, René 1596-1650
;
Huet, Pierre Daniel 1630-1721
;
Skeptizismus
Description / 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249) and index
