Insight and Inference : : Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy / / Murray Miles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Miles, Murray,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. The "Twin Pillars" of Cartesianism --; 2. Scholastic-Aristotelian Metaphysics --; 3. Cartesian Metaphysics --; 4. The New Order of Knowing --; 5. Synopsis --; PART ONE: THOUGHT AND CONSCIOUSNESS --; 6. Descartes's Definition of 'Thought' --; 7. Thought, Consciousness, and 'the Cogito' --; 8. The Structure of Thought --; 9. Pure and Empirical Thought --; PART TWO: CERTAINTY AND TRUTH --; 10. The Degrees of Certainty --; 11. The Kinds of Certainty --; 12. The Modalities of Truth --; 13. Truth and Correspondence --; 14. Certainty and Circularity --; PART THREE: REFLEXION AND INFERENCE --; 15. Consciousness, Thought, and Reflexion --; 16. Idea and Object --; 17. The Inferential Import of the Ergo --; 18. Reflexion and Innateness --; 19. The Model of the Mind --; 20. Experience and Induction --; CONCLUSION --; 21. Realism, Subjectivism, and Transcendence --; 22. The Old and the New Metaphysics --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442676190; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442676190
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Murray Miles.

In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum, Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Modern Philosophy that is very different from the standard one.Viewing Descartes in both a historical and a systematic perspective, Miles presents a wealth of original analyses, arguments, and re-interpretations of key texts. The result is a fresh and illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysical project and theory of the mind. Descartes's achievement is a radical reversal of the order of knowing, a subjectivism that places knowledge of the mind ahead of knowledge of material things, yet is free of the metaphysical idealism that some of his successors went on to embrace.A meticulous, scholarly, and exhaustive analysis, this book provides a minutely detailed reading of each word of Descartes's founding principle, exploring in great depth the underlying epistemology and ontology. The book will fully repay a careful reading by any serious student of Descartes's philosophy.