[PDF] Ergo Sum eBook

Author : Richard A. Watson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

GET BOOK

It was Descartes (1596-1650), says Watson (philosophy, Washington U., St. Louis), who established (or perhaps discovered) the rules of Reason, the foundation on which science and philosophy have been constructed since his time. He explores the life of the mathematician and philosopher, for readers who have no background in either field, but would l

Author : Richard Watson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781567923353

GET BOOK

Rene Descartes was a highly influential philosopher, mathematician, and scientist and is regarded as the Father of modern philosophy and mathematics. This is the biography of Descartes, and it describes the life of Descartes, in the flesh and blood, rather than a technical analysis of his philosophical, scientific, and mathematical ideas.

Author : Queena N. Lee
Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789715504348

GET BOOK

In this groundbreaking collection, science is viewed from diverse perspectives and disciplines. Through essay, poetry, journalism, and fiction, well-known writers reflect on and investigate the vagaries of physics, zoology, mathematics, as well as computer science, environmental science, and agriculture, among others.

Author : Lawrence Nolan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316380939

GET BOOK

The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by critics and developed by followers. There are entries on topics such as certainty, cogito ergo sum, doubt, dualism, free will, God, geometry, happiness, human being, knowledge, Meditations on First Philosophy, mind, passion, physics, and virtue, which are written by the largest and most distinguished team of Cartesian scholars ever assembled for a collaborative research project - 92 contributors from ten countries.

Author : Wolfgang Diehr
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,90 MB
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Corporations
ISBN : 9780937912119

GET BOOK

The first new Fuzzy novel in almost 30 years continues H. Beam Piper's most well-known and beloved series, featuring Jack Holloway, Little Fuzzy, and Victor Grego. All is well until several men arrive on Zarathustra with an agenda that will spell trouble for humans and Fuzzies alike.

Author : Deborah J. Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521857284

GET BOOK

An important and original reading of Descartes' account of mind-body unity and his theory of mind.

Author : Emre Bayamlioglu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Data protection
ISBN : 9789463722124

GET BOOK

Profiling the European citizen: why today's democracy needs to look harder at the negative potential of new technology than at its positive potential.

Author : J. Allan Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429913087

GET BOOK

As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and is now almost entirely obsolete. Via a series of clinical case reports, the author first apologizes for the arrogant ignorance that he adopted from his teachers and then replaces Freudian doctrine with a scientific alternative called Psychodynamic Neurology. The new approach is solidly grounded in sleep and dream science and restores hypnosis to its rightful place in the therapeutic armamentarium. A central precept of Ego Damage and Repair is that the self and its subjective experience (including symptoms) are natural accompaniments of spontaneous and prenatal brain activation that persists throughout life as REM sleep dreaming. Far from being the nonsense theory that psychoanalytic opponents mock, Psychodynamic Neurology views the unconscious as a hyper-meaningful set of predictions about the world that constitutes a virtual reality model which is continuously updated by personal experience. To showcase the changes in psychotherapeutic practice that are recommended, the self treatment of Dr Glen Just is described in detail.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300067736

GET BOOK

Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.

Author : Joseph Almog
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2008-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199713928

GET BOOK

Decartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. Joseph Almog is a Descartes analyst whose last book WHAT AM I? focused on the second half of this expression, Sum--who is the "I" who is existing-and-thinking and how does this entity somehow incorporate both body and mind? This volume looks at the first half of the proposition--cogito. Almog calls this the "thinking man's paradox": how can there be, in the the natural world and as part and parcel of it, a creature that... thinks? Descartes' proposition declares that such a fact obtains and he maintains that it is self-evident; but as Almog points out, from the point of view of Descartes' own skepticism, it is far from obvious that there could be a thinking-man. How can it be that a thinking human be both part of the natural world and yet somehow distinct and separate from it? How did "thinking" arise in an otherwise "thoughtless" universe and what does it mean for beings like us to be thinkers? Almog goes back to the Meditations, and using Descartes' own aposteriori cognitive methodology--his naturalistic, scientific, approach to the study of man--tries to answer the question.