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LoLordo (2005) ‘Descartes’s One Rule of Logic’: Gassendi’s Critique of the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Perception.

LoLordo, Antonia (2005). ‘Descartes’s One Rule of Logic’: Gassendi’s Critique of the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Perception. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1):51 – 72. Because he estimates that the way to have true and appropriate cognition of things is not by exploring things through themselves and in themselves, but by the Intellect alone and depending on thoughts alone, ..

Descartes on Second Replies

Suppose someone does not discern any cause cooper ating in the production of a fly which possesses all the degrees of perfection possessed by the fly; suppose further that he is not sure whether there is any additional cause beyond those which he does discern: it would be quite irrational for him to take this as a basis for doubting something which, as I shall shortly explain at length, is manif..

Gut (2020) The Epistemic Significance of Current Clear and Distinct Perceptions in Descartes’ Epistemology

Gut, Przemysław (2020). The Epistemic Significance of Current Clear and Distinct Perceptions in Descartes’ Epistemology. Roczniki Filozoficzne 68 (2):87-118. In recent literature, we can find two interpretations about the epistemic status and function of current clear and distinct perceptions in Descartes’ epistemology.The first one may be called the psychological interpretation. It states that ..

Cunning (2009) on Clear and Distinct Perception

Cunning, David (2009). Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations. New York, US: Oxford University Press. 1. The veriety of Readers and the Heuristic MethodThe readers of the Meditations will be different in other ways as well. Some will be more confused than others, and many who are confused to a similar degree will be confused in different ways. Some might hold that qualities like color..

Markie, Peter (1979). Clear and distinct perception and metaphysical certainty. Mind 88 (349):97-104.1Recent commentators on Descartes have been concerned with clarifying the relationship between two important Cartesian concepts: clear and distinct perception and metaphysical certainty.It is generally agreed that to perceive a proposition clearly and distinctly is to apprehend it in a particular..

Zhang, Haojun (2019). Descartes and Husserl on “Clear and Distinct”. Husserl Studies 35 (1):51-72. The expression “clear and distinct” is used by Descartes and Husserl when they talk, respectively, about the truth of an idea and the evidence of judgment. Although for both authors the words “clear” and “distinct” are juxtaposed with the conjunction “and,” their status is not actually equal.For De..

2025-1 Descartes 1. Cavendish allows that there exists conscious mentality, but she argues that much of our conscious intelligent thinking would not take place without unconscious "fairies" that "set" our conscious thoughts "in order." Explain her argument and illustrate it with an example.Strawson and Cavendish both think that there are a lot of familiar instances of mentality that are not cons..

2025-1 Descartes 1. Descartes argues that bodies do not have features like color, taste, sound, scent. What is his argument? What is the external world like, for Descartes, if bodies in fact exist? How does Descartes' view represent a dramatic turn in the history of science?He argues that the most basic features of body are size, shape, and extension. That is to say – color, taste, sound, smell,..

1. Descartes argues that thinking cannot arise or emerge from body. How does this argument go? How does the argument rely on the conception of thinking that is advanced in the Second Meditation?Descartes defends the view that minds and bodies are different kinds of stuff. This view is often called – mind-body dualism.He uses the Second Meditation to argue that at the most basic level the nature ..

5. At the start of the Fourth Meditation Descartes makes the assumption that a perfect being would not create being that err. But he is not entitled to that assumption. Why not? Why then might he be making it?By using the argument from objective reality, Descartes reaches the conclusion that God exists and that God is omniscient, omnipotent, eternal, immutable, and in a nutshell – supremely perf..