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    Back to Sanity.Sophie Berman - 1999 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1999 (115):185-190.
    Lately, a clamor can be heard, announcing that disinterested inquiry is neither possible nor desirable, that so-called “knowledge” is nothing but an expression of power, and that the concepts of evidence, objectivity, truth, are mere “ideological humbug” (p. 93). Thus, according to Richard Rorty, the champion of relativism, to call a statement true “is just to give it a rhetorical pat on the back” (p. 7), and “there are no constraints on inquiry save conversational ones” (p. 44). Similarly, for Sandra (...)
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  2. Infinity in Descartes.Sophie Berman - 1993 - Dissertation, Fordham University
    In Descartes's Cogito the mind discovers itself as an infinite power of self-assertion, a subjectivity, positing itself from within. But the mind also knows that it is finite, and receives its being from an "Other"--the infinite substance, or God, of which it finds within itself the idea, as one which cannot be derived from its idea of itself. The Cartesian conception of subjectivity is openness to the infinite. ;Descartes's ontological argument shows the infinite as radically "essence". But more fundamentally than (...)
     
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    The A Priori in the Thought of Descartes: Cognition, Method and Science. By Jan Palkoska.Sophie Berman - 2018 - International Philosophical Quarterly 58 (3):343-345.
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    Descartes and the Passionate Mind—Deborah J. Brown. [REVIEW]Sophie Berman - 2007 - International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (4):495-498.
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    Descartes’s Imagination. [REVIEW]Sophie Berman - 1998 - International Philosophical Quarterly 38 (4):457-458.
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    Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, by Kurt Brandhorst. [REVIEW]Sophie Berman - 2012 - International Philosophical Quarterly 52 (3):386-388.
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