Insight and inference
Subtitle: Descartes's founding principle and modern philosophy
By: Murray Miles.
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng; urd
Number of pages: 564
Subjects: Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650 -- Contributions in metaphysics.; Metaphysics.; Metaphysics -- History -- 17th century.
Description: In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum, Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Modern Philosophy that is very different from the standard one.

Viewing Descartes in both a historical and a systematic perspective, Miles presents a wealth of original analyses, arguments, and reinterpretations of key texts. The result is a fresh and illuminating account of Descartes's metaphysical project and theory of the mind.

Descartes's achievement is a radical reversal of the order of knowing, a subjectivism that places knowledge of the mind ahead of knowledge of material things, yet is free of the metaphysical idealism that some of his successors went on to embrace.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.