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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
The Modern Beginner
Early Days and Youth
The Soldier
Descartes’ Three Dreams
The First and Second Dreams
The Third Dream
Descartes Settles in Holland
Scholasticism
The Early Days of Science
What is Science?
Reduction to Mathematics
Descartes the Scientist
Cause
Discourse on The Method
Clear in the Mind
What Is a Clear Idea?
Logical and Causal Necessity
Can You Know Wax?
Rationalists and Empiricists
Brief History of Scepticism
The Pyrrhonists
The Pyrrhonists Arguments
Sextus and Other Sceptics
Cartesian Doubt
How to Doubt Everything
Seeing Isn’t Believing
Dreaming
Rationalists and Reason
The Invisible Demon
Do Our Senses Lie to Us?
Are We Awake or Not?
Invisible Demons?
The Impossibility of a “Private Language”
Back to the Basket
The Last Apple: Cogito ergo Sum
What is the Cogito?
The Cul de Sac of the Cogito
Public Knowledge
The Clear and Distinct Rule
Problems of the Clear and Distinct Rule
The Need for God
The Trademark Argument
The Cartesian Circle
The Ontological Argument
A Series of Leaky Proofs
Making Mistakes
Intellect versus Will
Belief Is Cheap
Belief and Faith
A Good Bet
A Quiet Life in Holland
Meditations on Perception
Bringing in God Again
Mathematical Certainties
Ancient Greek Mathematics
Is the Universe Mathematical?
Descartes the Mathematician
The Rigour of Mathematics
But What is Mathematics?
Mathematical Relativism
Formalists
The Success Story
Mathematical Humans
The Mathematization of Everything
Res Extensa
Res Cogitans
Cartesian Dualism
The Dualist Agrument
Thinking Existence
Problems with Cartesian Dualism
Another Argument
Human Beings and Language
Brains or Minds?
Effects of Brain Damage
Mind-Body Interaction
Seeing and Hearing the World
Perceiving and Imagining
Trialism Explains Sensations
The Philosophy of Mind
Open to Criticism
The Mind and Body Problem
Some Odd Answers
How Did Brains Evolve Minds?
What is Consciousness?
Aspects of Consciousness
Brains not Minds
Behaviourists
Problems with Behaviourism
Physicalist
Problems
Functionalism
Problems
Humans and Computers
Can Computers Understand?
The Principles
Retirement
Descartes and Ethics
Invitation to England?
Invitation to Sweden
All Frenchmen Dance …
Lessons at 5 A.M.
Descartes’ Legacy
The Thinking Individual
The Postmodern Mind
“How do we really think?”
Knowledge and Certainty
The Postmodern Condition
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Authors
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