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Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy

Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy

Miles, Murray

Paperback

Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1442615028
ISBN13: 9781442615021
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 1999
Pages: 584
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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