Title: Insight and inference
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Metaphysics, Contributions in metaphysics, History, Descartes, rene, 1596-1650, Philosophy, modern, history, Miscellanea, Theology, Appreciation, Qurʼan, Islam, Essence, genius, nature
People: René Descartes (1596-1650)
Time periods: 17th century