Review: Descartes's Method of Doubt [Book Review]

Mind 115 (458):394-399 (2006)
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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 the doubt. The latter includes her own distinctive take on what she calls the "I exist" argument.

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Gary Hatfield
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