Descartes on innate ideas /
This book offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes' conception of innateness. The concept of innateness is central to Descartes' epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet understanding...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2009.
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| Series: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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| Summary: | This book offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes' conception of innateness. The concept of innateness is central to Descartes' epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet understanding Descartes' conception of innate ideas is not an easy task and some commentators have concluded that Descartes held several distinct and unrelated conceptions of innateness. In "Descartes on Innate Ideas", however, Deborah Boyle argues that Descartes' remarks on innate ideas in fact form a unified ac. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1441160981 9781441160980 9781441102874 1441102876 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |