The Fourth Meditation and Cartesian Circles

Philosophical Annals: Special Issue on Descartes' Epistemology 68 (2):119-138 (2020)
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Abstract

We offer a novel interpretation of the argumentative role that Meditation IV plays within the whole of the Meditations. This new interpretation clarifies several otherwise head-scratching claims that Descartes makes about Meditation IV, and it fully exonerates the Fourth Meditation from either raising or exacerbating Descartes’ circularity problems.

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Everett Fulmer
Loyola University, New Orleans
Scott Ragland
Saint Louis University

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