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  1. Descartes, Methodical doubt, and the Grounding of Method.M. T. Shahed Tabatabaei - 2021 - Occidental Studies 12 (1):85-107.
    Descartes' methodical doubt is being criticized by naïve realists and others who don't find doubt as a good starting point for metaphysical thought, however, the philosophical achievements of his method have been absorbed in all later philosophies. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how an inevitable question concerning the foundation of Descartes' mathesis universalis, which led him to investigate this foundation by applying this very method in Metaphysics, has finally enabled him to discover his most important (...)
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    Theories of Truth and Methodic Doubt.John F. Bannan - 1981 - Modern Schoolman 58 (2):105-112.
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    Ordering knowledge by methodical doubt: Francis Bacon's constructive scepticism.Eleonora Montuschi - 2012 - Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    Methodical doubt is usually associated with Descartes. However, it is with Francis Bacon that its function and scope are first recognized – as a preliminary stage in the attainment of knowledge, and as an epistemological tool (a rule) for achieving true knowledge. In this paper, I follow the various steps of construction and use of Baconian doubt as it appears in the first book of the New Organon. I will argue that Bacon - in distancing himself from traditional (...)
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  4. Aquinas's metaphysics and Descartes's methodic doubt.John Fx Knasas - 2000 - The Thomist 64 (3):449-472.
     
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    Aquinas’ Metaphysics and Descartes’ Methodic Doubt.John F. X. Knasas - 1999 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73:159-177.
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    “Mother is not holding competely respect”: Making social sense of schizophrenic writing. [REVIEW]Keith Doubt, Maureen Leonard, Laura Muhlenbruck, Sherry Teerlinck & Dana Vinyard - 1995 - Human Studies 18 (1):89 - 106.
    This paper provides a phenomenological account of the writing of a young woman diagnosed with schizophrenia. The method of interpretation is to put ourselves in the place of the author drawing upon a combination of sympathy, reason, common-sense, experience, and an intersubjective world, common to us all (Schutz, 1945: 536). The result is the recognition of the person as also capable of putting herself in the place of others so as to understand their behavior. This role-taking success identifies the limits (...)
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  7. Sources of Cartesian doubt. Aristotle's perplexity becomes Descartes's doubt: Metaphysics 3, 1 and methodical doubt in Benito Pereira and René Descartes.Constance Blackwell - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill. pp. 231-248.
  8. Aristotle's perplexity becomes Descartes's doubt : Metaphysics 3, 1 and methodical doubt in Benito Pereira and Rene Descartes. [REVIEW]Constance Blackwell - 2009 - In Maia Neto, José Raimundo, Gianni Paganini & John Christian Laursen (eds.), Skepticism in the modern age: building on the work of Richard Popkin. Boston: Brill.
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    Doubting One's Methods.Alan R. White - 1983 - Analysis 43 (3):133 - 134.
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    Descartes' Method of Doubt.Harry Bracken - 2003 - Philosophy Now 43:43-44.
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    Without any doubt: Gersonides on method and knowledge.Sara Klein-Braslavy - 2011 - Boston: Brill.
    "Without any doubt" : Gersonides on method and knowledge -- The opinions that produce the aporias in The wars of the Lord -- The solutions of the aporias in The wars of the Lord -- Dialectic in Gersonides' commentary on Proverbs -- The Alexandrian prologue paradigm in Gersonides' writings -- The introductions to the Bible commentaries -- Gersonides as commentator on Averroes -- Determinism, contingency, free choice, and foreknowledge in Gersonides -- Gersonides on the mode of communicating knowledge of (...)
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    Spinoza, Method, and Doubt.Diane Steinberg - 1993 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 10 (3):211 - 224.
  13. Descartes's Method of Doubt.Marleen Rozemond - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (4):591-614.
    In Descartes's Method of Doubt Janet Broughton examines in depth Descartes's well-known use of the method of doubt in the Meditations. This is a very stimulating book. The book is rich in subtle, interesting ideas, and the writing is engaging in perhaps the best sense for philosophy. It is not only extremely lucid, but in addition one senses Broughton think the issues through on the page in a way that strongly draws the reader in. Broughton pursues the historian's (...)
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  14. Al-Ghazālī’s Method of Doubt and its Epistemological and Logical Criticism.Aytekin Özel - 2008 - Journal of Islamic Philosophy 4:69-76.
    The method of doubt has been used in philosophy and theology by both philosophers and theologians, among them al-Ghazālī. Al-Ghazālī’s method conveys the process of how he was cured of his epistemological and existential crisis. This study analyzes each phase of the process in terms of epistemology and logic; it explains the problems and how they appeared to al-Ghazālī.
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  15. Descartes's Method of Doubt.Janet Broughton & Joseph Almog - 2003 - Philosophical Quarterly 53 (212):437-445.
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    A Critique of Doubt: Questioning the Questioning Method as a Means of Obtaining Knowledge.David Swartz - 2017 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 51 (2):40-52.
    There appears to be a certain presumption of innocence involved in the asking of questions, versus a contrary presupposition of authority involved in answering them. Has anyone ever tried to put into question the question's presupposition of innocence? Just what is implied in a question? And to what extent does what is implied in a question determine its answer? In what follows, I draw attention to the role questions play in determining their possible responses, and, as a consequence, I ask (...)
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    If in doubt, treat’em equally: a case study in the application of formal methods to ethics.Tadeusz Czarnecki, Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, Olga Pollr & Jan Wolenski - 2010 - In Tadeusz Czarnecki, Katarzyna Kijanija-Placek, Olga Poller & Jan Wolenski (eds.), The Analytical Way. College Publications. pp. 219-243.
    Presumption of Equality requires that individuals be treated equally in the absence of relevant information that would discriminate between them. Our objective is to make this principle more precise, if viewed as a principle of fairness, and to determine why and under what conditions it should be obeyed. Presumption norms are procedural constraints, but their justification can be sought in the possible or expected outcomes of the procedures they regulate. This is the avenue pursued here. The suggestion is that in (...)
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  18. Descartes's Method of Doubt.Janet Broughton - 2002 - Princeton University Press.
    "This stunning work is without question a major contribution to Cartesian studies, to the field of early modern philosophy, and to general epistemology--original, provocative, and philosophically interesting.
  19. Descartes' method of doubt.Virgil C. Aldrich - 1937 - Philosophy of Science 4 (4):395-411.
    Lord Acton, in his letter to the contributors to the Cambridge Modern History, wrote: “By Universal History, I understand that which is distinct from the combined histories of all countries … and is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” If we replace “history” by the more general term “knowledge,” we get the statement of an ideal cherished by the great men of every age—those lonely pioneers to whom book-learning is an intellectual gloom more treacherous (...)
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    Can There Be a Method of Doubt?Oswald Hanfling - 1984 - Philosophy 59 (230):505 - 511.
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  21. The Form of Descartes’ Method of Doubt.Patrick Brissey - 2017 - Southwest Philosophy Review 33 (2):233-249.
    I argue that Descartes’ approach in the First Meditation is the same as the one found in Rule VIII, with some modifications, and this helps toward establishing a connection between the Regulae and Meditationes that has gone unnoticed by scholars.
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    If in doubt, treat’em equally: a case study in the application of formal methods to ethics.Wlodek Rabinowicz - 2010 - In Tadeusz Czarnecki, Katarzyna Kijanija-Placek, Olga Poller & Jan Wolenski (eds.), The Analytical Way. College Publications. pp. 219-243.
    Presumption of Equality requires that individuals be treated equally in the absence of relevant information that would discriminate between them. Our objective is to make this principle more precise, if viewed as a principle of fairness, and to determine why and under what conditions it should be obeyed. Presumption norms are procedural constraints, but their justification can be sought in the possible or expected outcomes of the procedures they regulate. This is the avenue pursued here. The suggestion is that in (...)
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  23. Malebranche and Descartes on Method: Psychologism, Free Will, and Doubt.David Scott - 2008 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (4):581-604.
    The subject of this paper is Malebranche’s relation to Descartes on the question of method. Using recent commentary as a springboard, it examines whether Malebranche advances a nonpsychologistic account of method, in contrast to the psychologism typically thought to characterize the Cartesian view. I explore this question with respect to two issues of central importance to method generally: doubt and free will. My argument is that, despite superficial differences of emphasis, Descartes and Malebranche adopt positions on doubt and (...)
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  24. Review: Descartes's Method of Doubt[REVIEW]Gary Hatfield - 2006 - Mind 115 (458):394-399.
    Review of _Descartes’s Method of Doubt_, by Janet Broughton. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 217. H/b £22.95, P/b £10.95. The review characterizes Broughton's book on Cartesian doubt as a work that attends to the philosophical significance of Descartes's work while taking seriously his own aims and the historical context of his arguments. The review considers her extensive examination of the method of doubt and her notion of "dependence arguments" as a way of overcoming (...)
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  25. E. Husserl and Descartes' method of doubt.S. Sousedik - 1996 - Filosoficky Casopis 44 (5):833-840.
     
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    Review of Descartes’s Method of Doubt, by Janet Broughton. [REVIEW]Peter Murphy - 2009 - Essays in Philosophy 10 (1):139-143.
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  27. Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt Reviewed by. [REVIEW]Deborah Boyle - 2003 - Philosophy in Review 23 (1):3-5.
     
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  28. Critical Notice of Janet Broughton 'Descartes's Method of Doubt'. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2002.Marleen Rozemond - 2004 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34 (4):591-613.
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    Two Methods Of Creative Marketing Research Neuromarketing And In-Depth Interview.Macit Koc & Maia Ozdemir - 2012 - Creative and Knowledge Society 2 (1):113-117.
    Two Methods Of Creative Marketing Research Neuromarketing And In-Depth Interview Creativity is one of the most important concepts nowadays' business environment. The purpose of this article is to determine whether neuromarketing and in-depth interviews complete each other in terms of allowing marketers to to create more creative marketing strategies on how customers really feel.Raising global competition pressure does not allow marketers to ignore it. Marketing is a field that is most sensitive to such influences. New point of view most times (...)
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    Review of Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt[REVIEW]Peter Murphy - 2005 - Essays in Philosophy 10 (1):8.
    The book has two parts. The first looks at the destructive use to which Descartes puts the method of doubt. But this is just half the story since, according to Broughton, Descartes also uses the method of doubt constructively. The second part of the book takes up the constructive use. Both uses fit into an overarching claim that is set out in the introduction. According to this claim, Descartes employs the method of doubt in order to establish (...)
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    Doubt as a Political Virtue.Quassim Cassam - 2021 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45:371-391.
    This article explicates the notion of doubt and the relationship of doubt to belief and conviction. It distinguishes three types of political virtue—leadership, systemic, and corrective—and considers whether doubt is a political virtue in any of these three senses. It is argued that while doubt is not a leadership virtue, it is a systemic and a corrective virtue. Specifically, it is potentially an antidote to methods, ideological, and psychological extremism. A distinction is drawn between extremism and (...)
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    Mummy, Mummy, what is Descartes' Method of Doubt?Rick Lewis - 2003 - Philosophy Now 43:44-44.
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    Doubtful Certainties: Language-Games, Forms of Life, Relativism.Jesús Padilla Gálvez & Margit Gaffal (eds.) - 2012 - Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
    To what extent can we doubt certainties? How are certainties expressed in words? Which language games convey certainty? To answer these questions we have to recall the method Wittgenstein used in his investigations. When we look at language games and forms of life as inseparable phenomena, do forms of life then provide any certainty? On the other hand, do we automatically relapse into relativism once we doubt certainties? Which formal structures underlie certainty and doubt? The book is (...)
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  34. Belief, doubt and reason: C. S. Peirce on education.Donald J. Cunningham, James B. Schreiber & Connie M. Moss - 2005 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 37 (2):177–189.
    In this paper, we explore Peirce's work for insights into a theory of learning and cognition for education. Our focus for this exploration is Peirce's paper The Fixation of Belief (FOB), originally published in 1877 in Popular Science Monthly. We begin by examining Peirce's assertion that the study of logic is essential for understanding thought and reasoning. We explicate Peirce's view of the nature of reasoning itself—the characteristic guiding principles or ‘habits of mind’ that underlie acts of inference, the dimensions (...)
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  35. Bodily doubt.Havi Carel - 2013 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 20 (7-8):7-8.
    In this paper I explore the tacit underlying sense of bodily certainty that characterizes normal everyday embodied experience. I then propose illness as one instance in which this certainty breaks down and is replaced by bodily doubt. I characterize bodily doubt as radically modifying our experience in three ways: loss of continuity, loss of transparency, and loss of faith in one's body. I then discuss the philosophical insights that arise from the experience of bodily doubt. The paper (...)
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    Method and Mathematics: Peter Ramus's Histories of the Sciences.Robert Goulding - 2006 - Journal of the History of Ideas 67 (1):63-85.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Method and Mathematics:Peter Ramus's Histories of the SciencesRobert GouldingPeter Ramus (1515–72) was, at first sight, the least likely person to write an influential history of mathematics. For one thing, he was clearly no great mathematician himself. His sympathetic biographer Nicholas Nancel related that Ramus would spend the mornings being coached in mathematics by a team of experts he had assembled, and in the afternoon would lecture on the very (...)
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  37. Cartesian Doubt and Metaphysics.Jason Costanzo - 2015 - In Cartesian Doubt and Metaphysics. pp. 0.
    Since Descartes, the nature of doubt has played a central role in the development of metaphysics both positively and negatively. Despite this fact, there has been very little discussion centering round the specific nature of doubt which led, for example, to the Cartesian discovery of the cogito. Certainly, the role of doubt has been well recognized: through doubt Descartes arrives at his indubitable first principle. But what can it mean to doubt the existence of the (...)
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    Doubt and Human Nature in Descartes's Meditations.Sarah Patterson - 2012 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 70:189-217.
    Descartes is well known for his employment of the method of doubt. His most famous work, the Meditations, begins by exhorting us to doubt all our opinions, including our belief in the existence of the external world. But critics have charged that this universal doubt is impossible for us to achieve because it runs counter to human nature. If this is so, Descartes must be either misguided or hypocritical in proposing it. Hume writes:There is a species of (...)
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    The Limits of Doubt: The Moral and Political Implications of Skepticism (review). [REVIEW]José Maia Neto - 2002 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (4):551-552.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.4 (2002) 551-552 [Access article in PDF] Book Review The Limits of Doubt: The Moral and Political Implications of Skepticism Petr Lom. The Limits of Doubt: The Moral and Political Implications of Skepticism. Albany: The State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 138. Cloth, $49.50. Paper, $16.95. Since the appearance in 1960 of Richard Popkin's The History of (...)
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  40. Resolving the Question of Doubt: Geometrical Demonstration in the Meditations.Steven Burgess - 2012 - Society and Politics 6 (2):43-62.
    The question of what Descartes did and did not doubt in the Meditations has received a significant amount of scholarly attention in recent years. The process of doubt in Meditation I gives one the impression of a rather extreme form of skepticism, while the responses Descartes offers in the Objections and Replies make it clear that there is in fact a whole background of presuppositions that are never doubted, including many that are never even entertained as possible candidates (...)
     
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    The Extent of Doubt in Descartes' Meditations.Peter A. Schouls - 1973 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1):51 - 58.
    There is still considerable debate among commentators about the extent to which Descartes intended to, or actually did, exercise the principle of methodic doubt. Basically, the debate is about the import of the word “all” in the opening sentence of the synopsis of the Meditations: “In the first Meditation I set forth the reasons for which we may, generally speaking, doubt about all things … ”. A. K. Stout and Willis Doney have argued that the thing to (...)
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    Discours des Méthodes: The Methods of Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology.Josef Seifert - 2009 - De Gruyter.
    The term "method" of realist phenomenology and philosophy can refer to three kinds of things which are being explored extensively in this work: (1) Kinds of philosophical knowledge used to return to things themselves: intellectual "vision" of necessary intelligible essences, insights into necessary states of affairs, knowledge of less than necessary essences, knowledge of existence as such, of the ego cogitans and of a concretely existing world, other persons, and the absolute being, deductive forms of reasoning, and others. (2) Ways (...)
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    Doubting Castle or the Slough of Despond: Davidson and Schiffer on the Limits of Analysis.Christopher Norris - 1996 - Review of Metaphysics 50 (2):351 - 382.
    To Rorty this seemed just one more example of the kinds of dilemma that philosophers typically got into by supposing that there must be a right way of doing things and that theirs was the method by which best to do it. His own work up to this point had been largely analytical in character, or addressed to problems within and around that first line of descent. However, thereafter--that is to say, in his writings subsequent to The Linguistic Turn--he swung (...)
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    Shortening of psychological tests – assumptions, methods and doubts.Władysław Jacek Paluchowski & Paweł Kleka - 2017 - Polish Psychological Bulletin 48 (4):516-522.
    In this article, on the basis of questionnaire data collected for other purposes, the Authors want to show the consequences of various methods of shortening of tests and what may result from such an action for diagnosticians, researchers and examined individuals. The research aim of the work is to show the best method of shortening of the scale of questionnaires. Will shortening of a questionnaire according to different statistical techniques bring the same results? Will the quality of shortened scales be (...)
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    Ethnographies of waiting: doubt, hope and uncertainty.Manpreet K. Janeja & Andreas Bandak (eds.) - 2018 - New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc.
    We all wait – in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty. Ethnographies of Waiting explores the social phenomenon of waiting and its centrality in human society. Using waiting as a central analytical category, the book investigates how waiting is negotiated in myriad ways. Examining the politics and poetics of waiting, Ethnographies of Waiting offers fresh perspectives on waiting as the uncertain (...)
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    Belief and Method.Israel Scheffler - 2009 - In Worlds of Truth: A Philosophy of Knowledge. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 93–113.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Problems of pragmatism and pragmatic responses Peirce's theory of belief, doubt, and inquiry Peirce's comparison of methods Difficulties in Peirce's treatment An epistemological interpretation The primacy of method.
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    Contrasting Methods of Environmental Planning.Richard Hare - 1974 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 8:281-297.
    In planning the conduct of his affairs in relation to nature, man is faced with many problems which are so complex and so intermeshed that it is hard to say at first even what kind of problems they are. We are all familiar with the distinction between factual and evaluative questions, and I do not doubt that there is this distinction; but the actual problems with which we are faced are always an amalgam of these two kinds of question. (...)
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    Doubts, Philosophy, and Therapy.Annalisa Coliva - 2021 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 45:155-177.
    There is nowadays a tendency, to be dated back to Gordon Baker’s reading, to interpret the later Wittgenstein as proposing a thoroughly therapeutic view of philosophy. Accordingly, he was not dealing with philosophical problems to show how they originated in a misunderstanding of our language. For that would have presupposed his advancing theses about how language works. Rather, his therapeutic method was in the service of liberating philosophers from the kind of intellectual prejudices that would prompt them to ask philosophical (...)
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    Sceptical Readings of the Cartesian Doubt.Massimo Marilli - 2010 - Rivista di Filosofia 101 (3):387-414.
  50. Doubts about Descartes' indubitability: The cogito as intuition and inference.Peter Slezak - 2010 - Philosophical Forum 41 (4):389-412.
    Kirsten Besheer has recently considered Descartes’ doubting appropriately in the context of his physiological theories in the spirit of recent important re-appraisals of his natural philosophy. However, Besheer does not address the notorious indubitability and its source that Descartes claims to have discovered. David Cunning has remarked that Descartes’ insistence on the indubitability of his existence presents “an intractable problem of interpretation” in the light of passages that suggest his existence is “just as dubitable as anything else”. However, although the (...)
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