The plain truth [electronic resource] : Descartes, Huet, and skepticism / by Thomas M. Lennon.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 170.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.Description: xi, 255 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 194 22
- B1878.S55 L46 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249) and index.
People -- Who was Huet? -- The Censura : why and when? -- The birth of skepticism -- Malebranche's surprising silence -- The downfall of Cartesianism -- Kinds -- Huet a Cartesian? -- Descartes and skepticism : the standard interpretation -- Descartes and skepticism : the texts -- Thoughts -- The cogito : an inference? -- The transparency of mind -- The cogito as pragmatic tautology -- Doubts -- The reality of doubt -- The generation of doubt -- The response to doubt -- Rules -- The criterion of truth -- The trump argument -- Circles -- The simple circularity of the Meditations -- The inner circle(s) -- Gods -- Gassendist influences -- The objections of objections -- The rejection of intentionality -- Virtues -- Descartes's voice -- Betting the family farm -- The propagation of light -- The heart-beat -- The moving earth -- Faith and reason -- Descartes as methodological academic skeptic.
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