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Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World
Joseph Almog
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hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLH; HPCD; HPM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 297. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195337716
SKU
KSG0033604
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About Joseph Almog
Jospeh Almog is a Professor of Philosophy at UCLA.
Reviews for Cogito?: Descartes and Thinking the World
Cogito? is a first-rate philosophical examination of a constellation of concepts that Almog finds lurking in the work of the seventeenth-century thinker ReneDescartes.
Kurt Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Kurt Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews