Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations

New York: Princeton University Press (1970)
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In this classic work, best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes ...

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1973, 1987, 2008

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B1854.F7 2008

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9780691134161   0691134162   9780691134154   0824046617   0691134154

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10.2307/2184245
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Contents.Harry G. Frankfurt
Foreword.  (pages vii-xii)Rebecca Goldstein
Preface.Harry G. Frankfurt
Preface To The Princeton Edition.  (pages xiii-xvi)Harry G. Frankfurt
1. Introduction.  (pages 3-18)Harry G. Frankfurt
2. The General Overthrow of Belief.  (pages 19-31)Harry G. Frankfurt
3. The Criterion of Doubt.  (pages 32-42)Harry G. Frankfurt
4. The Perception of the Physical World.  (pages 43-59)Harry G. Frankfurt
5. The Strategy of the First Meditation.  (pages 60-74)Harry G. Frankfurt
6. Simple and Universal Things.  (pages 75-83)Harry G. Frankfurt
7. Mathematics in the First Meditation.  (pages 84-92)Harry G. Frankfurt
8. Mathematics and the Omnipotent Deceiver.  (pages 93-107)Harry G. Frankfurt
9. Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen.  (pages 108-120)Harry G. Frankfurt
10. Sum.  (pages 123-153)Harry G. Frankfurt
11. Sum res cogitans.  (pages 154-174)Harry G. Frankfurt
12. Clear and Distinct Perception.  (pages 175-199)Harry G. Frankfurt
13. Objections to Descartes’s Rule of Evidence.  (pages 200-214)Harry G. Frankfurt
14. Memory and Doubt.  (pages 215-234)Harry G. Frankfurt
15. The Validation of Reason.  (pages 235-249)Harry G. Frankfurt
16. Truth and Reality: The Galileo Controversy.  (pages 250-256)Harry G. Frankfurt
Index.  (pages 257-264)Harry G. Frankfurt

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