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© James Hill 2012

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Research on this book was supported by the Czech government grant project ‘Formal and Historical Approaches to Epistemology’, GAČR, no. P401/10/1504.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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ISBN: 9781441113108

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hill, James.

Descartes and the doubting mind / James Hill.

p. cm. -- (Continuum studies in philosophy)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978–1–4411–3203–1 – ISBN 978–1–4411–7986–9 – ISBN 978–1–4411–1310–8 1. Descartes, René, 1596–1650. 2. Philosophy of mind-History-17th century. I. Title. II. Series.

B1878.M55H55 2011

194–-dc23

2011028610

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