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65Connaissance de Dieu et conscience de soi chez DescartesDialogue 49 (1): 1-24. 2010.ABSTRACT: The analytic method by which Descartes established the first principle of his philosophy is a unique cognitive process of direct insight and non-logical inference that differs markedly from the deductive model of noetic apprehension long associated with seventeenth-century rationalism. In this paper, it is shown that the same analytic process is at work in the Third Meditation proof of the innateness of the idea of God, where, however, there are serious doubts about its legitimacy
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14IndexIn Murray Lewis Miles (ed.), Insight and inference: Descartes's founding principle and modern philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 547-564. 1999.
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4FrontmatterIn Inroads: Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. 2003.
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324Kant’s ‘Five Ways’: Transcendental Idealism in ContextDialogue 57 (1): 137-161. 2018.In 1772, Kant outlined the new problem of his critical period in terms of four possible “ways” of understanding the agreement of knowledge with its object. This study expands Kant’s terse descriptions of these ways, examining why he rejected them. Apart from clarifying the historical context in which Kant saw his own achievement (the Fifth Way), the chief benefits of exploring the historical background of Way Two, in particular, are that it (1) explains the puzzling intuitus originarius/intellec…Read more
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37Descartes' Mechanicism and the Medieval Doctrine of Causes, Qualities, and FormsModern Schoolman 65 (2): 97-117. 1988.
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223. Cartesian MetaphysicsIn Murray Lewis Miles (ed.), Insight and inference: Descartes's founding principle and modern philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 24-38. 1999.
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12AcknowledgmentsIn Inroads: Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. 2003.
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5Introduction: What philosophy isIn Inroads: Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 1-146. 2003.
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146. Descartes's Definition of 'Thought'In Murray Lewis Miles (ed.), Insight and inference: Descartes's founding principle and modern philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 55-67. 1999.
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13ConclusionIn Inroads: Paths in Ancient and Modern Western Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 631-636. 2003.