Publication Type |
Journal Article |
School or College |
College of Humanities |
Department |
Philosophy |
Creator |
Newman, Lex |
Title |
Rocking the foundations of cartesian knowledge: critical notice of Janet Broughton, descartes's method of doubt |
Date |
2004-01 |
Description |
Janet Broughton's Descartes's Method of Doubt†1 is a systematic study of the role of doubt in Descartes's epistemology. The book has two parts. Part 1 focuses on the development of doubt in the First Meditation, exploring such topics as the motivation behind methodic doubt; the targeted audience; the method's game-like character (on her view); its relations to ancient skepticism, its reasonableness; the method's presuppositions relative to commonsense belief; Michael Williams's recent criticisms of Descartes; and more. Part 2 focuses on how doubt figures in the constructive epistemology of the Meditations-on how Descartes employs doubt as a tool for founding knowledge. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
Duke University Press |
Volume |
113 |
Issue |
1 |
First Page |
101 |
Last Page |
125 |
Subject |
Super-indubitables; Canonical circularity; Clear and distinct truths' |
Subject LCSH |
Knowledge, Theory of; Criticism |
Language |
eng |
Bibliographic Citation |
Newman, L. (2004). Rocking the foundations of cartesian knowledge: critical notice of Janet Broughton, descartes's method of doubt. Philosophical Review, 113,(1), 101-25. |
Rights Management |
(c) Duke University Press |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
68,492 Bytes |
Identifier |
ir-main,2045 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6m04ptn |
Setname |
ir_uspace |
ID |
705080 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m04ptn |