Joseph Almog

Cogito? (eBook, ePUB)

Descartes and Thinking the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Descartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. But how it can be that a thinking human can be both part of the natural world and yet somehow distinct and separate from it? Joseph Almog goes back to the Meditations, and using Descartes' own methodology--and his naturalistic, scientific worldview--tries to answer the question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190450755
• Artikelnr.: 42620348

Autorenporträt

Jospeh Almog is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface * Ch. 1 Synopsis
The thinking
man paradox * Ch. 2 Thinking about the sun I
having an idea of the sun * Ch. 3 Thinking about the sun II
having
in
mind vs. knowing
which * Ch. 4 Thinking about God and nature
as
a
whole * Ch. 5 Thinking about material things * Ch. 6 Descartes' cosmological invariants I
thinking * Ch. 7 Descartes' cosmological invariants II
knowing * Ch. 8 Skepticism