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  1. Circumventing cartesian circles.Lex Newman & Alan Nelson - 1999 - Noûs 33 (3):370-404.
  2. Descartes' epistemology.Lex Newman - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
    René Descartes (1596-1650) is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy. His noteworthy contributions extend to mathematics and physics. This entry focuses on his philosophical contributions in the theory of knowledge. Specifically, the focus is on the epistemological project of Descartes' famous work, Meditations on First Philosophy.
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  3. Locke on sensitive knowledge and the veil of perception – four misconceptions.Lex Newman - 2004 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85 (3):273–300.
    Interpreters of Locke’s Essay are divided over whether to attribute to him a Representational Theory of Perception (RTP). Those who object to an RTP interpretation cite (among other things) Locke’s Book IV account of sensitive knowledge, contending that the account is incompatible with RTP. The aim of this paper is to rebut this kind of objection – to defend an RTP reading of the relevant Book IV passages. Specifically, I address four influential assumptions (about sensitive knowledge) cited by opponents of (...)
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  4. The fourth meditation.Lex Newman - 1999 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (3):559-591.
    Recent scholarship suggests that Descartes’s effort to establish a truth criterion is not viciously circular ---a fact that invites closer scrutiny of his epistemological program. One of the least well understood features of the project is his deduction of a truth criterion from theistic premises, a demonstration Descartes says he provides in the Fourth Meditation: the alleged proof is not revealed by a casual reading, nor have commentators fared any better; in general, the relevance of the Fourth Meditation has not (...)
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  5. Descartes on the will in judgment.Lex Newman - 2007 - In Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 334-352.
    On Descartes’s account, the will is the central player in judgment, a role that this chapter aims to explain. The first section situates the will in Descartes’s broader ontology of mind. The second section characterizes the will’s contributions to judgment. The third section addresses the will’s voluntary control over judgment. The fourth section considers whether, on Descartes’s account, our epistemic responsibility in judgment is best understood as a form of compatibilism or incompatibilism.
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  6. (1 other version)Locke on knowledge.Lex Newman - 2007 - In The Cambridge Companion to Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The primary aim of this essay is to explain the central elements of Locke's theory of knowledge. A secondary aim arises from the official definition of knowledge introduced in the opening lines of book IV. Though Locke's repeated statements of the definition are consistent with the initial formulation, the consensus view among commentators is that that official definition is in tension with other book IV doctrines. My broader interpretation involves an effort to render the various doctrines consistent with the official (...)
     
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    Attention, Voluntarism, and Liberty in Descartes's Account of Judgment.Lex Newman - 2015 - Res Philosophica 92 (1):61-91.
    This essay addresses two main aspects of Descartes’s views on the mind’s voluntary control over judgment. First, I argue that in his view, the mind’s control over judgment is indirect: rather than believing things directly at will, the mind’s voluntary control is exercised by directing its attention to reasons—the reasons then doing the work of determining either assent, dissent, or suspension. Second, I argue that the foregoing indirect voluntarism account undermines an influential line of argument purporting to show that Descartes (...)
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    Defense of a Libertarian Interpretation of Descartes' Account of Judgment 1.Lex Newman - 2023 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 104 (3):597-621.
    Widespread scholarly agreement has it that Descartes' theory of judgment favors a compatibilist interpretation. This essay explains and rebuts the standard arguments made on behalf of compatibilist readings, while explaining and defending a libertarian interpretation. Along with relevant Fourth Meditation doctrines and texts, my analysis encompasses a much discussed 1645 letter discussing his account. Although some scholars view the letter as departing from the account of theMeditations, I argue that the two works present a consistent view – allowing us to (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding".Lex Newman (ed.) - 2007 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    First published in 1689, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. The Essay puts forward a systematic empiricist theory of mind, detailing how all ideas and knowledge arise from sense experience. Locke was trained in mechanical philosophy and he crafted his account to be consistent with the best natural science of his day. The Essay was highly influential and its rendering of empiricism would become the standard for (...)
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  10. Unmasking Descartes’s Case for the Bête Machine Doctrine.Lex Newman - 2001 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (3):389-425.
    Among the more notorious of Cartesian doctrines is the bête machine doctrine – the view that brute animals lack not only reason, but any form of consciousness (having no mind or soul). Recent English commentaries have served to obscure, rather than to clarify, the historical Descartes' views. Standard interpretations have it that insofar as Descartes intends to establish the bête machine doctrine his arguments are palpably flawed. One camp of interpreters thus disputes that he even holds the doctrine. As I (...)
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  11. Ideas, pictures, and the directness of perception in Descartes and Locke.Lex Newman - 2008 - Philosophy Compass 4 (1):134-154.
    How are we to understand philosophical claims about sense perception being direct versus indirect? There are multiple relevant notions of perceptual directness, so I argue. Perception of external objects may be direct on some notions, while indirect on others. My interest is with the sense in which ideas count as perceptual mediators in the philosophy of Descartes and Locke. This paper has two broader aims. The first is to clarify four main notions of perceptual directness. The second is to support (...)
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  12. Descartes on unknown faculties and our knowledge of the external world.Lex Newman - 1994 - Philosophical Review 103 (3):489-531.
    How are we to understand philosophical claims about sense perception being direct versus indirect? There are multiple relevant notions of perceptual directness, so I argue. Perception of external objects may be direct on some notions, while indirect on others. My interest is with the sense in which ideas count as perceptual mediators in the philosophy of Descartes and Locke. This paper has two broader aims. The first is to clarify four main notions of perceptual directness. The second is to support (...)
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  13. Locke on the idea of substratum.Lex Newman - 2000 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (3):291–324.
    it, the idea of "substance-in-general". It is clear he accords a central role to collections of simple..
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  14. Descartes’ Epistemology.Lex Newman - 2019 - In .
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    The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715.Lex Newman & Thomas M. Lennon - 1995 - Philosophical Review 104 (2):272.
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    Frankfurt and the Cartesian Circle.Lex Newman - 2012 - In Stewart Duncan & Antonia LoLordo (eds.), Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses. New York: Routledge. pp. 18.
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    (1 other version)Cartesian Truth.Lex Newman - 1998 - Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 62 (3):735-738.
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  18. Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology.Lex Newman - 2005 - In Alan Jean Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 179–204.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Descartes on Innateness Two Rationalist Doctrines The Methodical Case for the Two Rationalist Doctrines.
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    Rocking the Foundations of Cartesian Knowledge.Lex Newman - 2004 - Philosophical Review 113 (1):101-125.
    Janet Broughton’s Descartes’s Method of Doubt1 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 (...)
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  20. Descartes on the method of analysis.Lex Newman - 2019 - In Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
     
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  21. Descartes on the Will in Judgment.Lex Newman - 2008 - In . pp. 334-352.
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  22. Phil 3200 - deductive logic.Lex Newman - manuscript
    It is not uncommon for students to try, and indeed to succeed, in buying the course texts used. This often makes a great deal of sense. But for this course, you must buy the textbook new . Here's why. The textbook comes with software that you will use to submit all of the course homeworks. The problem is that only one student can register the software , per book — period. So, if you buy the textbook used, not only do (...)
     
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  23. Phil 1000 - intro: Survey of Philosophy.Lex Newman - manuscript
    McGraw-Hill Primis custom course pack. (Bundled with the course pack will be an Enrollment Code that you'll eventually need. Don't buy a course pack unless it is shrink-wrapped, thus including the code.) CPS remote clicker device — here's what it looks like . You may need to talk with a bookstore employee to find out where they have the remote devices, assuming information is not posted with the course packs. (NOTE: The bookstore is also selling the..
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  24. Phil 5120 / 6120 - modern & recent Philosophy.Lex Newman - manuscript
    An Essay concerning Human Understanding , by John Locke ISBN: 0198245955. This is the standard scholarly edition of Locke's Essay published by Oxford and edited by Peter Nidditch. This version contains countless aids for the scholar and student and is the version of the..
     
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  25. Phil 4120 - early modern Philosophy.Lex Newman - manuscript
    Since this is a survey course (one in which we'll consider some philosophical views from a wide variety of philosophers), buying texts for a course like this one is potentially a very expensive endeavor. I have tried to keep down the costs in two kinds of ways. First, in some cases I will simply provide web readings (rather than having you buy a whole text). Second, I have ordered..
     
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    (1 other version)Sensory Doubts and the Directness of Perception in the Meditations1.Lex Newman - 2011 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 35 (1):205-222.
  27. Vinci's formulation of the Truth Rule.Lex Newman - unknown
    On his interpretation, the Truth Rule is intended to provide an epistemic principle that grounds specifically existential knowledge. Vinci builds his account around Descartes' doctrine that "if we perceive the presence of some attribute, we can infer that there must also be present an existing thing or substance to which it may be attributed" (Prin. 1:51, CSM 1:210, AT 8a:25). As Vinci understands it, the Truth Rule is a principle ensuring (roughly) that whatever properties I clearly and distinctly perceive are (...)
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    Berkeley’s Thought. [REVIEW]Lex Newman - 2002 - Philosophical Review 111 (2):314-318.
    By his own account, Pappas "focuses on three core elements" of Berkeley's thought: abstraction, immediate perception, and common sense. The reader will also find interesting commentary on numerous other aspects of Berkeley's thought, including detailed treatments of the esse is percipi principle and Berkeley's claimed avoidance of skepticism.
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