Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen : : The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations / / Harry G. Frankfurt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Frankfurt, Harry G.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Goldstein, Rebecca.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: With a New preface by the author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword /; 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 Reason --; 16. Truth and Reality: The Galileo Controversy --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400828180; 9783110662580; 9783110413434; 9783110442502; 9783110459531
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400828180
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Harry G. Frankfurt.

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 masterful and imaginative reading of Descartes's seminal work not only stands the test of time; one imagines Descartes himself nodding in agreement.