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Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World

Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World

Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World
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Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World Hardback - 2008

by Almog, Joseph

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  • Title Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World
  • Author Almog, Joseph
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008. 144p. Hardback. Cogito? is a first-rate philosophical examination of a constellation of concepts that Almog finds lurking
  • Publication date 21/03/2008
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0195337719
  • ISBN 9780195337716 / 0195337719
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.36 x 5.97 x 0.62 in (21.23 x 15.16 x 1.57 cm)
  • Size 8.50x5.51x0.44
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Descartes, Rene, Thought and thinking
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007023072
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128.3
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Decartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. Joseph Almog is a Descartes analyst whose last book WHAT AM I? focused on the second half of this expression, Sum--who is the "I" who is existing-and-thinking and how does this entity somehow incorporate both body and mind? This volume looks at the first half of the proposition--cogito. Almog calls this the "thinking man's paradox" how can there be, in the the natural world and as part and parcel of it, a creature that... thinks? Descartes' proposition declares that such a fact obtains and he maintains that it is self-evident; but as Almog points out, from the point of view of Descartes' own skepticism, it is far from obvious that there could be a thinking-man. How can it be that a thinking human be both part of the natural world and yet somehow distinct and separate from it? How did "thinking" arise in an otherwise "thoughtless" universe and what does it mean for beings like us to be thinkers? Almog goes back to the Meditations, and using Descartes' own aposteriori cognitive methodology--his naturalistic, scientific, approach to the study of man--tries to answer the question.

About the author

Jospeh Almog is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA.

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