Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen : : The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations / / 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 f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | With a New preface by the author |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword / Goldstein, Rebecca
- 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