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373What does the Premise “A Deceiver Deceives Me” Conclude?: Descartes’ Deceiver Argument ReconsideredFilozofia 74 (4): 308-317. 2019.Descartes insists, “[...] there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me [...]” (AT-VII, 25; CSM-II, 17). In what way can we draw evidence that our existence can be drawn from our being deceived? The interpretations that the earlier studies have shown is not a monolith. Then I will search for some inherent characteristics of deception, and analyse the construction of the reasoning, “if …Read more
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246Bringing an End to the Interpretative Dispute on Descartes’s Cogito: the Cogito as Vérité, Cognitio, Propositio, and ConclusioPhilosophy Journal 13 (3): 38-48. 2020.The aim of this paper is to bring an end to the interpretative dispute on Descartes’s cogito: is the cogito known by intuition or by inference? There have been several studies based on both analytical and historical approaches to the dispute, and it seems that we have exhausted all interpretations. Nevertheless, I wish to revisit this dispute, as it appears that the previous studies have overlooked Descartes’s use of words and phrases, which is the most significant for understanding his variou…Read more
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14Trace of Stoic logic in Descartes: Stoic axiōma and Descartes’s pronuntiatum in the Second MeditationThe Seventeenth Century 38. 2023.
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10Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism? A Preliminary StudyThe European Legacy 1-14. forthcoming.This article is an attempt to answer the question whether Descartes had read Sextus Empiricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. At first glance, the question seems trivial. This question, however, is of historico-philosophical significance in that it reveals, even if only partially, what Descartes, who is regarded as the father of early modern philosophy, inherited from his earlier intellectual legacy in formulating his own philosophy. I first compare statements from Sextus’s Outlines with corresponding…Read more
Ayumu Tamura
National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki College
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National Institute of Technology, Ibaraki CollegeAssistant Professor
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |