Descartes’ Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck

Husain Sarkar0521821665, 9780521821667, 9780511061899

Книга Descartes’ Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck Descartes’ Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck Книги Психология, философия Автор: Husain Sarkar Год издания: 2003 Формат: pdf Издат.:Cambridge University Press Страниц: 326 Размер: 1,6 Mb ISBN: 0521821665 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes’ cogito “I think therefore I am”. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative new interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this new interpretative lens, Sarkar reconsiders key Cartesian topics. He demonstrates how Descartes’ attempt to prove the existence of God is foiled by a new Cartesian Circle.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 9
Preface……Page 11
Acknowledgments……Page 15
Abbreviations……Page 19
1 The Prolegomena to Any Future Epistemology……Page 23
I. The Making of an Ideal Seeker……Page 25
II. The Method: The Rationalist Thread……Page 32
III. The Tree of Philosophy……Page 38
IV. Method, Morals, and Bootstraps……Page 44
2 The Problem of Epistemology……Page 55
I. Types of Problems……Page 56
II. Directive to Dismantle……Page 61
III. Two Models of Doubt……Page 67
IV. Doubt and Principles……Page 72
3 The Solution: Cogito……Page 80
I. The Nature of the First Principle……Page 82
II. The Thought Experiment……Page 87
III. The Experiment Evaluated……Page 102
IV. The Eucharist Objection……Page 105
V. Doubt and the Cogito……Page 108
VI. The General Rule and Truth……Page 113
4 A Skeptic against Reason……Page 123
I. Why Natural Reason?……Page 124
II. “Buy All or Nothing”……Page 131
III. Attempting to Step Out of the Circle……Page 138
IV. No Escaping from the Circle……Page 143
V. Another Failed Attempt……Page 148
VI. How Not to Read the Meditations: A Skeptic’s Reply……Page 152
5 The Five Ways……Page 160
I. The Five Ways………Page 161
A. The First and Second Ways……Page 164
B. The Third Way……Page 170
C. The Fourth Way……Page 176
D. The Fifth Way……Page 184
II. …Plus One……Page 190
6 Cogito: Not an Argument……Page 198
I. The Preliminaries……Page 199
II. The Core of the Claim……Page 203
III. The Proof……Page 208
IV. Skepticism and the Theory of Deduction……Page 217
I. A Source of the Mistake……Page 231
II. The Content of the Cogito……Page 236
III. Ryle and the Elusive ‘I’……Page 248
I. The Role of Memory……Page 258
II. Discovery, Explanation, and the New Logic……Page 262
III. Will, Cogito, and the Purposes of God……Page 271
Appendix A Comments on Jeffrey Tlumak’s “Certainty and Cartesian Method”……Page 291
Appendix B Comments on Robert Nozick’s “Fiction”……Page 295
Appendix C Cogito and the Port-Royal Logic……Page 300
Appendix D Bacon and Descartes……Page 306
I……Page 309
II……Page 311
III……Page 314
Bibliography……Page 316
Name Index……Page 321
Subject Index……Page 324