Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)
Language: English
Published by U.S.A.: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2012
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- Title
- Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy (Toronto Studies in Philosophy)
- Author
- Miles, Murray
- Publisher
- U.S.A.: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
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- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1442615028
- ISBN 13
- 9781442615021
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- PHILOSOPHY
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.
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About the Author
Murray Miles is a professor of philosophy at Brock University.
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