Proof of the External World.
Descartes' attempt to ground the possibility of human knowledge in the existence of God was judged to be a complete failure by his contemporaries. This remains the universal opinion of philosophers to this day, despite thefact that three and a half centuries of secular epistemology ' which...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The Perils of Methodological Doubt; 2. The Deceiver Hypothesis; 3. Skepticism and the Cogito; 4. Thinking; 5. Being; 6. How Can God Be Apprehended?; 7. The Cartesian Cosmological Argument; 8. The Concept of God; 9. God and Knowledge in the Meditations; 10. Descartes' Arguments for God's Existence: A Vindication; Bibliography; Back cover. | |
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