Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen The Defense of Reason in Descartes's ""Meditations""

Author/Creator:

Frankfurt, Harry G.

Publication/Creation:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009

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Book

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Full Title:

Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen The Defense of Reason in Descartes's ""Meditations""

Abbreviated Titles:

DEMONS, DREAMERS, AND MADMEN

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Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Reason
First philosophy

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Table of Contents:

Contents; Foreword by Rebecca Goldstein; Preface to the Princeton Edition; Preface; One: THE FIRST MEDITATION; 1 Introduction; 2 The General Overthrow of Belief; 3 The Criterion of Doubt; 4 The Perception of the Physical World; 5 The Strategy of the First Meditation; 6 Simple and Universal Things; 7 Mathematics in the First Meditation; 8 Mathematics and the Omnipotent Deceiver; 9 Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen; Two: REASON AND ITS VALIDATION; 10 Sum; 11 Sum res cogitans; 12 Clear and Distinct Perception; 13 Objections to Descartes's Rule of Evidence; 14 Memory and Doubt
15 The Validation of Reason16 Truth and Reality: The Galileo Controversy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Summary:

In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations, but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern philosophy: on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for the truth of our beliefs? Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen provides an ingenious account of Descartes's defense of reason against his own famously skeptical doubts that he might be a madman, dreaming, or, worse yet, deceived by an evil demon into believing falsely. Frankfurt's maste

Language:

English

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English

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1 online resource (283 p.)

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Description based upon print version of record.

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Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936535149502486

ISBN:

0-691-13415-4
0-691-13416-2

OCLC Number:

344100132