Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World

by Joseph Almog

Book Overview

Decartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. Joseph Almog is a Descartes analyst whose last book WHAT AM I? focused on the second half of this expression, Sum--who is the "I" who is existing-and-thinking and how does this entity somehow incorporate both body and mind? This volume looks at the first half of the proposition--cogito. Almog calls this the "thinking man's paradox"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195337719
• ISBN13: 9780195337716
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.4"