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Descartes' Slight and Metaphysical Doubt
The goal of my dissertation is to argue that Descartes arrives at his account of self-knowledge by grappling with skepticism about introspection. As I interpret him, Descartes has his meditator attempt to undermine introspection so that he can replace his former beliefs about his mind's nature and …
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Descartes, Hintikka, and the 'Cogito'
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Regarding Descartes' meditations as meditational
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is often hailed as one of the great classics of western philosophy. First-time readers of the Meditations are often struck by Descartes' clear and accessible writing style. Within recent scholarship (e.g., most notably, Amelie Osksenberg Rorty's collection …
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Fable, method, and imagination in Descartes
… traces the effects that attending to Descartes' deployment of fable have on our understanding of the Cartesian method and its conception of the imagination. Descartes must take on the task of inaugurating a break from Scholastic metaphysics and physics. Because of the limitations he …
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Das Problem des Skeptizismus bei Descartes und Locke
… fast als eine Selbstverständlichkeit angesehen, Descartes in Verbindung mit dem Problem des Skeptizismus zu bringen. Ist dies aber wirklich eine Selbstverständlichkeit? Daß dieser Frage eine große Bedeutung zukommt, wird deutlich, wenn wir uns klar machen, daß es eine Zeit gab, in der Descartes …
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Descartes and tradition: the miracle of the Eucharist
Descartes and the followers of his new mechanistic physics were subject to condemnation as a result of a reaction against his philosophy on the basis that it could not adequately explain the miracle of the Eucharist. Descartes, however, firmly believed that he could give an explanation of the real …
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Descartes' World: An Interpretation of the Discourse On Method
<p>Descartes' <italic>Discourse on Method<italic> is a canonical text. It, however, has received little attention by English scholars, and its importance for understanding Descartes' mature philosophy has been unappreciated. In this dissertation, "Descartes' <italic>World <italic>: An …
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Descartes and Foundationalism: A Definitive Explanation for Knowledge Possession?
This thesis attempts to investigate whether Descartes’s epistemoiogy as presented in the Meditations should be interpreted in the traditional way, as an example of strong classical foundationalism or whether this traditional account needs to be revised. I will argue not only that the traditional …
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The hippocampal "Event Code" : implications from Descartes to Gridworld
The brain codes continuous spatial, temporal, and sensory changes in daily experience. Recent studies suggest the brain also tracks experience as segmented subdivisions (events), but the neural basis for encoding events remains unclear. Here, I present our recent advances to understand the encoding …
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Ανάλυση και Αμφιβολία: Μία Κριτική της Μεθοδολογικής Βεβαιότητας στον Bacon και τον Descartes
Η παρούσα μελέτη εξετάζει συγκριτικά τις βασικές θέσεις του Φράνσις Μπέικον και του Ρενέ Ντεκάρτ ως προς τη βεβαιότητα της γνώσης που εγγυάται μία μέθοδος, με παράλληλη μελέτη του ρόλου της ανάλυσης και της αμφιβολίας στη συγκρότηση της νεωτερικής γνώσης. Περαιτέρω, διερευνά τον τρόπο με τον οποίο …
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An evaluation of the first principle of Descartes and its relevance to modern thought
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Philosophy, 1952
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Descartes' Letters to Pere marin Mersenne, Le Minime, on the Science of Sound and Music, 1629-40
… thesis completes the English translation of Descartes's works influential to the history of acoustics and music theory, directly or indirectly. They include Compendium musicae (1618), Traité de l'homme (1632), Discours de la méthode and La dioptrique (1637), and Les passions de l'ame (1649). …
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Scepticism and naturalism
Descartes' First Meditation presents a serious challenge to the theoretical enterprise of science by raising doubts about our belief that we know truths. The various strategies for refuting the challenge, represented by Descartes, Putnam and Austin, have proven unsuccessful, leaving theoretical …
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" Από τον Πλατωνικό Μύθο του Σπηλαίου έως τον Descartes και το Matrix : Η Μεταφυσική της Αλήθειας στον Ψηφιακό Κόσμο της Προσομοίωσης".
Η παρούσα εργασία εξετάζει την ταινία The Matrix (1999) των Lana και Lilly Wachowski ως μια σύγχρονη φιλοσοφική αλληγορία της αναζήτησης της αλήθειας μέσα στον ψηφιακό κόσμο της προσομοίωσης. Μέσα από τη συγκριτική ανάλυση του εικονικού κόσμου του Matrix με τον Πλατωνικό Μύθο του Σπηλαίου, …
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Textual solipsism in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands
… of Western print culture and children of René Descartes: literate and acutely self-conscious. I note how each conceives himself according to Descartes' mind-body dualism as primarily a thinking thing. I argue that this self-conception is reinforced by their paradoxical presence-as-absence as …
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Re-examining the Cartesian mind: Dispelling a myth
… The Concept of Mind, for example, Ryle portrayed Descartes as positing a nonphysical ""place"" where mental events and processes resided. Psychological states were taken to be private, internal objects to which we had access by a special kind of perceptual process, namely, introspection. Following …
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