Descartes's Discussion of his Existence in the Second Meditation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10695759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry G Frankfurt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329 |
| Publication date | 1966-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2183145 |
| OpenAlex | W2322109511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
THE epidemic doubt which Descartes generates in the First Meditation is arrested early in the Second, when he finds in his own existence a belief apparently immune to even the most virulent skepticism. There are versions of this discovery in many of Descartes's works, but it is the Meditations which provides his most mature and fully developed account of it. Moreover, some of his most important statements elsewhere concerning the belief that he exists refer to the discussion in the Second Meditation. My aim here is to understand what he says in that discussion
Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Meditation · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |