Descartes Reinvented
$78.00
USDThomas Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are highly unpopular in analytic philosophy and often instantly dismissed. His book serves as an interpretation, if not outright revision, of unreconstructed Cartesianism and responds directly to the critique of contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism which is characterized as realistic. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also demonstrates how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian.
- Shows, for the first time, how deeply Cartesian some contemporary analytic philosophy is
- It distinguishes unacceptable from acceptable claims in Cartesianism, while making clear the roots of acceptable or 'innocent' Cartesianism
- Enables philosophers who use 'Cartesian' as a term of abuse and Descartes scholars to communicate on a range of issues
Reviews & endorsements
"Sorrell's interpretations are careful and, by and large, sound, given the intention with which they are offered. Were one of my historicophobic colleagues to ask why Descartes...should be worth studying, I would, without misgivings, direct him to Descarte Reinvented." - Dennis Des Chene, Washington University in Saint Louis
Product details
July 2005Hardback
9780521851145
204 pages
235 × 160 × 24 mm
0.42kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Radical doubt and inner space
- 2. Knowledge, the self and internalism
- 3. The belief in foundations
- 4. Conscious experience and the mind
- 5. Reason, emotion and action
- 6. Anthropology, misogyny, and anthropocentrism
- Conclusion.
