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The Cogito, Dreamt Characters, and Unreal Existence
Borges’ The Circular Ruins tells the story of a magician who turns out to be a character in a dream. Leibowitz (
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Cogito and Moore
Self-verifying judgments like I exist seem rational, and self-defeating ones like It will rain, but I don’t believe it will rain seem irrational . But...
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Foucault–Derrida Debate on Cartesian Cogito: One Step Forward and Two Steps Backward
In this paper, I’ll discuss the philosophical debate that took place between Michel Foucault and his student Jacques Derrida on Rene Descartes’...
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Stop Doubting with Descartes
Did Descartes manage to overcome the skeptics? If we understand “overcome” in the sense of “refute,” the answer is no, since his hyperbolic doubt...
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Did Descartes make a Diagonal Argument?
This paper explores the idea that Descartes’ cogito is a kind of diagonal argument. Using tools from modal logic, it reviews some historical...
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Du denkst an mich, also bin ich
Wer kennt sie nicht, die jahrhundertealte Formel von René Descartes, mit der er sich eine zweifelsfreie Basis seines philosophischen Reflektierens...
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God and Cogito: Semen Frank on the ontological argument
Semen Frank (1877–1950) was one of the first and most ardent advocates of the ontological argument in the twentieth century. He proposed an original...
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Wittgenstein and the Duty to Believe
It is generally assumed that hinge-commitments are deprived of an epistemically normative structure, and yet, that although groundless, the...
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Tanabe Hajime — “Where self‐evidence resides”
In this article from 1928, translated here for the first time, Tanabe Hajime examines the concept of self-evidence, mainly in the light of Husserl...
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The body ideal in French phenomenology
Is the phenomenological concept of “body” not, in general, an ideal? The purpose of this article is to defend this thesis within the scope of the...
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The Excess of Descartes’ First Principle of Philosophy
This chapter comprises a rewriting of Descartes’ first principle of philosophy, Cogito, ergo sum. It follows the Meditations on First Philosophy...
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African Philosophy of Communalism
The starting point of this chapter is that there is a basic distinction between indigenous African societies and Western societies. It is argued that...
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African Philosophy of Communalism
The starting point of this chapter is that there is a basic distinction between indigenous African societies and Western societies. It is argued that...
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Saving philosopher Descartes: Valentin Asmus as a guardian of culture
Early in his career, Valentin Asmus gave a polemical lecture on Descartes’s dialectics, and during the “Thaw” he published a book on René Descartes’s...
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Corine Pelluchon: Nourishment: a philosophy of the political body, trans. by Justin E. H. Smith
“In the beginning there was hunger.” This opening quote from Levinas sets the stage for Pelluchon’s ethico-political project that revamps classical...
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Is There a Gap Between the Hermeneutical and the Ethical? A Discussion on Paul Ricoeur’s Moral Attestation of Here I am
Paul Ricoeur is a philosopher of wide ranging interests whose main concern is hermeneutics. His hermeneutics is self-reflexive, an existential...
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The Skeptical Origins of Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology
This paper demonstrates that two signature methodological concepts in Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, the epoché and the phenomenological...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the book. It gives an outline of the chapters. Before this, it gives some historical context to the writing of the Preface of...
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A Foundational Scepticism
René Descartes took up Galileo Galilei’s kinematic science and his foundational method in his Discourse on Method. He challenged ancient forms of...
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Existential selfhood in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
This paper provides an interpretation of the existential conception of selfhood that follows from Merleau-Ponty’s account of perception. On this...