num_pages: 312
description: In this classic work best-selling author Harry Frankfurt provides a compelling analysis of the question that not only lies at the heart of Descartes's Meditations  but also constitutes the central preoccupation of modern on what basis can reason claim to provide any justification for the truth of our beliefs? Demons Dreamers and Madmen provides an ingenious account of Descartes's defense of reason against his own famously skeptical doubts that he might be a madman dreaming or worse yet deceived by an evil demon into believing falsely.Frankfurt's masterful and imaginative reading of Descartes's seminal work not only stands the test of time; one imagines Descartes himself nodding in agreement.
language: English
title: Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes's Meditations
publisher: Princeton University Press