Silencing the Demonas Advocate: The Strategy of Descartesa Meditations

by Ronald Rubin

This book attempts to explain The Meditations (1641), a classic of Western philosophy in which Descartes tries to reach a predetermined end ("perfect certainty") by means of a definite method ("the method of doubt"). The author argues that many problems of interpretation--including notorious problems of circularity--arise from a failure to recognize that Descartes' strategy for attaining certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758166
• ISBN13: 9780804758161
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"