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Author | : Han Thomas Adriaenssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1316857948 |
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In this book Han Thomas Adriaenssen offers the first comparative exploration of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern philosophy. Descartes is traditionally credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that the direct objects of perception are images in the mind, not external objects, but Adriaenssen shows that as early as the thirteenth century, critics had already found similar problems in Aquinas's theory of representation. He charts the attempts of philosophers in both periods to grapple with these problems, and shows how in order to address the challenges of scepticism and representation, modern philosophers in the wake of Descartes often breathed new life into old ideas, remoulding them in ways that we are just beginning to understand. His book will be valuable for historians interested in the medieval background to early modern thought, and to medievalists looking at continuity with the early modern period.
Author | : Han Thomas Aaenssen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : PHILOSOPHY |
ISBN | : 9781316861363 |
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The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.
Author | : Han Thomas Adrianssen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Representation (Philosophy) |
ISBN | : 9781316860984 |
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Author | : Han Thomas Adriaenssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107181623 |
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The first comparative study of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern thought.
Author | : Henrik Lagerlund |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004170618 |
Download Rethinking the History of Skepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book aims at beginning the rewriting of the history of skepticism by highlightening the medieval sources of the modern skeptical discussions. It shows through seven newly written essays how epistemological and external-world skepticism was developed and discussed particularly in the fourteenth century up to sixteenth century Paris.
Author | : Alexander W. Hall |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1443865788 |
Download Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality studies the interrelated themes of causality and skepticism in contemporary, early modern and medieval philosophy. Thomas Aquinas’s celebrated proofs of the existence of God (the Five Ways of the Summa Theologica) rely in part on an Aristotelian notion of synchronous causality, wherein the things that exist and persist require an accounting that ultimately terminates in the ongoing activity of a first mover, as the existence and persistence of an ecosystem is traceable to the sun. By contrast, in David Hume’s early modern account, causality consists in the regularity of successive events (a rolling billiard ball’s collision with a stationary one is always followed by the movement of the latter). Moreover, Newtonian and Einsteinian accounts respectively suggest that motion, once initiated, requires no explanation. In light of these developments, the first set of essays in this volume re-evaluates the Aristotelian paradigm and its relation to modern science, contending that in some fields (such as ecology, thermodynamics or information theory) contemporary science still preserves some intuitions about causality that support Aquinas’s deliberations. Hume’s skepticism about causality is heir to late medieval and early modern development that transformed not only the notion of causality in general, but also the idea of the causal connections between our cognitive faculties, God, and the world in particular, giving rise to extreme, solipsistic forms of skepticism, such as Descartes’ Demon skepticism. The second set of essays considers whether Aquinas’s thought would be susceptible in some ways to this form of skepticism, and what motivated, just a couple of generations later, the turn to epistemology already involving this sort of skepticism.
Author | : Richard Popkin |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2013-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1447489632 |
Download The History Of Scepticism From Erasmus To Descartes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Edwin M. Curley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Descartes Against the Skeptics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134530579 |
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An original reassessment of Descartes' work which reinserts it in its contemporary context. Explores the notion of intellectual virtue in Descartes' inquiry and argues for a new approach to Descartes' ideas of scepticism and the sciences.
Author | : Thomas M. Lennon |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047424468 |
Download The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The skeptic Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Censura philosophiae cartesianae (1689) is the most comprehensive, unrelenting and devastating critique of Descartes ever. It incisively captures all the issues that now interest readers of Descartes: the method of doubt, the cogito, clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth, the circularity of the Meditations, proofs of God’s existence, etc. Naturally, the work provoked great controversy among the Cartesians, who were implicated in various capacities—Nicolas Malebranche as the occasional cause of the publication, and Pierre-Sylvain Regis as the chief defender of the Cartesian camp. What emerges in this study of the controversy is a heroic, defensible Descartes. He possesses hitherto unappreciated answers to the criticisms that have bedeviled his philosophy from his time to ours.