468. Perchance to Dream: Descartes’ Skeptical Method

How Descartes fashioned a “method” to repel even the strongest and most radical forms of doubt, with the cogito argument as its foundation.

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• E. Curley, Descartes against the Skeptics (Cambridge MA: 1978).

• D.E. Flage and C.A. Bonnen, Descartes and Method: A Search for a Method in Meditations (London: 1999).

• G. Fine, “Descartes and Ancient Skepticism: Reheated Cabbage?” Philosophical Review 109 (2000), 195-234.

• H.G. Frankfurt, Demons, Dreamers, & Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes’s Meditations (Princeton: 2008).

• S. Gaukroger, Cartesian Logic: An Essay on Descartes’s Conception of Inference (Oxford: 1989).

• M. Marlies, “Doubt, Reason, and Cartesian Therapy,” in M. Hooker (ed.), Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays (Baltimore: 1978), 89-113.

• C. Wee, Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’ Meditations (London: 2006).