Uri D Leibowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 9505399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uri D Leibowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uri D |
| FAMILY NAME | Leibowitz |
| SIGNATURE | LEIBOWITZ U D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8008-6059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Descartes’ foundation and Borges’ ruins: How to doubt the Cogito
Descartes claimed that the Cogito is ‘so firm and sure that all the most extravagant suppositions of the sceptics were incapable of shaking it’. This paper aims to demonstrate that this claim is false by presenting a sceptical scenario for the Cogito. It is argued that the story ‘The Circular Ruins’ by J. L. Borges illustrates that one can doubt one’s own existence and that pace Descartes (and many others) the claim ‘I am, I exist, is necessarily…
How to Solve The Euthyphro Problem
A dilemma for evolutionary debunking arguments
The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolu…
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The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics
Evolutionary ethics - the application of evolutionary ideas to moral thinking and justification - began in the nineteenth century with the work of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, but was subsequently criticized as an example of the naturalistic fallacy. In recent decades, however, evolutionary ethics has found new support among both the Darwinian and the Spencerian traditions. This accessible volume looks at the history of thought about evolu…
A dilemma for evolutionary debunking arguments
How to Solve The Euthyphro Problem
Descartes’ foundation and Borges’ ruins: How to doubt the Cogito
Descartes claimed that the Cogito is ‘so firm and sure that all the most extravagant suppositions of the sceptics were incapable of shaking it’. This paper aims to demonstrate that this claim is false by presenting a sceptical scenario for the Cogito. It is argued that the story ‘The Circular Ruins’ by J. L. Borges illustrates that one can doubt one’s own existence and that pace Descartes (and many others) the claim ‘I am, I exist, is necessarily…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Skepticism (2 works) · Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity (1 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 works) · Cogito ergo sum (1 works) · Darwin (ADL) (1 works)