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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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Abbreviations I. People 1. Who was Huet? 2. The Censura: When and Why? 3. The Birth of Skepticism 4. Malebranche’s Surprising Silence 5. The Downfall of Cartesianism II. Kinds 6. Huet a Cartesian? 7. Descartes and Skepticism: The Standard Interpretation 8. Descartes and Skepticism: The Texts III. Thoughts 9. The Cogito: An Inference? 10. The Transparency of Mind 11. The Cogito as Pragmatic Tautology IV. Doubts 12. The Reality of Doubt 13. The Generation of Doubt 14. The Response to Doubt V. Rules 15. The Criterion of Truth 16. The Trump Argument VI. Circles 17. The Simple Circularity of the Meditations 18. The Inner Circle(s) VII. Gods 19. Gassendist Influences 20. The Objection of Objections 21. The Rejection of Intentionality VIII. Virtues 22. Descartes’s Voice 23. Betting the Family Farm 24. The Propagation of Light 25. The Heart-Beat 26. The Moving Earth 27. Faith and Reason 28. Descartes as Methodological Academic Skeptic Bibliography of Works Cited Index

About the Author :
Thomas M. Lennon (Ph.D, Ohio State University, 1968) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. Among his books are The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Philosophical Legacies of Gassendi and Descartes, 1655-1715, and Reading Bayle.

Review :
"Lennon fait [...] une analyse historique minutieuse pour démontrer que le scepticisme dont Descartes pouvait démontrer l'incohérence était, justement, le scepticisme académique, et non pas le pyrrhonien, que le philosophe « describes as extravagant »." – Archives de Philosophie, cahier 2011/1, tome 74, Printemps, pp. 192-193


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  • ISBN-13: 9789004171152
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 258
  • Series Title: 170 Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9004171150
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 612 gr


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