Descartes
The Project of Pure Enquiry.
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23169222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret D Wilson |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 431 |
| Publication date | 1979-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies, René Descartes, 1996 |
| Venue | The Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-362X • E-ISSN: 1939-8549 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2025412 |
| OpenAlex | W1980396526 |
| Language | EN |
Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy. This is a classic and challenging introduction to Descartes by one of the most distinguished modern philosophers. Bernard Williams not only analyzes Descartes' project of founding knowledge on certainty, but uncovers the philosophical motives for his search. With acute insight, he demonstrates how Descartes' Meditations are not merely a description but the very enactment of philosophical thought and discovery. Williams covers all of the key areas of Descartes' thought, including God, the will, the possibility of knowledge, and the mind and its place in nature. He also makes profound contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics and philosophy generally. This is essential reading for any student of philosophy. This reissue includes a new foreword by John Cottingham.
Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy
Mysterious Mixtures
The anatomy of anatomia
Selective scepticism over thought
Pandora's box
Some issues in understanding spirituality as relational
The Central Role of Imagination in Linguistics, Philosophy and Logic
Does Epistemology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Rorty on Scepticism
Nota Sobre a Dúvida Cartesiana
Rorty's Linguistic Turn
Possibility and Imagination
The significance of Hobbes’s conception of power
Why Gold is Necessarily a Yellow Metal
Spirituality and education; inner and outer realities
Cogito, Ergo Sum
Descartes' Flash of Insight
The Moral Formation of Descartes' Meditations
Knowing and knowing in Descartes
The Uses of Thought and Will
Descartes's Interactionism and his principle of causality
Why Every Belief is a Choice
Departures from Lichtenberg
The Practical Self
A project of “impure” enquiry—Williams' historical self‐consciousness
In Search of the Cartesian Self
Descartes', Sixth Meditation
The disenchanted world and beyond
John Bell on ‘Subject and Object’
Narratives of Responsibility and Agency
The Meaning of 'Theory
Styles of Sociological Thought
Doubt as a Political Virtue
The Virtue of Consistency
Alarums and excursions
Thick Concepts, Non-Cognitivism, and Wittgenstein’s Rule-Following Considerations
Descartes' proto-critique
Privacy, self-knowledge, and the inner eye
In what sense is contemporary medicine dualistic
El texto cartesiano de la adoración y la hipótesis de los juicios implícitos verdaderos
Consideração Das Coisas Compostas’ E Deus Enganador Na Primeira Meditação
Pode Deus determinar o valor de pi? (Ou, pensar na objetividade depois de Hegel e Wittgenstein)
The Habitus , Coping Practices, and the Search for the Ground of Action
Descartes on the Animal Within, and the Animals Without
Centred worlds, personal identity and imagination
The Self-Knowledge Gambit
Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief
Saving the phenomena’ and saving the phenomena
Epistemology Factualized
Internalism, externalism, and transcendental idealism
The internalist virtue theory of knowledge
Cogito and Moore
Scientia, diachronic certainty, and virtue
Dreams, agency, and judgement
The epistemic significance of modal factors
Scientific practice as ecological-enactive co-construction
Strong knowledge, weak belief
Non‐Accidental Knowing
Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy
Reconsidering Hobbes's Conventionalism
Owning Virtue
Indeterminism and Free Agency
Activating the Mind
Between Autonomy and Authority
Why Are We Certain that We Exist
The Fourth Meditation
Scepticism and Evidence
Transformative Experience in Skepticism. The External Standpoint and the Finitude of the Human Condition
The Cogito and sums
The Trouble with Tarski
Part II
Descartes's Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote
Denying the Body? Memory and the Dilemmas of History in Descartes
Cartesian Skepticism from Bare Possibility
The Rhetoric of Modal Equivocacy in Cartesian Transubstantiation
Simulacra as conscious exotica
Replies to Oza, Das, Rattan
Three grades of self involvement and the deduction of objectivity in The Practical Self
Other I’s, communication, and the second person
Taking Rorty seriously
The subject-as-object problem
The Dilemma of Humanitarian Intervention
Persons and Mysterianism
Ebbs's Participant Perspective on Self-Knowledge
Introduction
La pensée sans sujet pensant
Absolute Idealist Powers
Descartes’ Sum-Res-Cogitans-Argument in der Zweiten Meditation
The Question of Realism
Loosening the Need-Concept Tie
Inborn Knowledge
A Political and Ameliorative State of Nature
When Genealogy Is Called For
The Benefits of Reverse-Engineering
A Genetic History of Thought
Ideas Worth Having
The Uses of Intrinsic Value
Epigraph
The Normative Significance of Pragmatic Genealogies
Romance, Satire, and the Exploitation of Disorder
Ideas as Remedies to Inconveniences
Why We Came to Think as We Do
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