Hello List: I am presently engaged in self-directed study of Descartes. I have done a preliminary reading of most of his major works over the past several...
Sounds good to me Herman I will make try to have a useful dialogue with you. Phil -- In descartes@yahoogroups.com, "hermanbtriplegood" <Hb3g@L...> ... have ......
HB, It sounds good to me, though a close reading of the Meditations, Objections, and Replies is a big order. It will take years I figure. It is a good idea ...
William Reid
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Dec 15, 2005 6:09 pm
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Bill: You are right. I finished my first read through the Synopsis, the Meditations itself, and the seven sets of Objections and Replies and I can say it was...
Bill: Come to think of it, one year, devoted to the Meditations, about two months per each part, is, I think, a good beginning. I'll be posting up some of my...
I posted the following to the Journal of Consciousness Studies mailing list. Replies to this post, which I will also forward, quickly veered off into a...
The primary attack on Descartes' Cogito came not from subjectless sentences, but from David Hume's argument that nothing can be identified about ourselves...
... The connection between Descartes' cogito and subjectless sentences has several steps. Hume is only the first. Hume is using the theater as a metaphorical...
... From: "Joseph Polanik" <jPolanik@...> ... You are misunderstanding Hume's argument. He is not merely "saying" that the experiencer isn't real. He is...
... If you feel that Hume is making a legitimate actual argument, attempt to state it in the first person. Whenever i try to translate Hume's argument into the...
... From: "Joseph Polanik" <jPolanik@...> ... Your characterization of Hume's argument above begins from his conclusion (i.e., that i am a theater, that...
... ================================== Hume's Argument ================================== I would characterize Hume's argument as a poorly executed modus...
... From: "Joseph Polanik" <jPolanik@...> ... Whatever awareness of self-as-subject means, it must remain the case that the subject is the same subject...
... I appreciate your willingness to reformulate Hume's argument to make it clear that step 1 involves awareness of self-as-subject. We are half done. Keep...
... From: "Joseph Polanik" <jPolanik@...> ... If I existed before my body was born (or after my body dies), it would still follow that this can only make...
... You'll have to forgive me for being a little slow on the uptake here; but, I'm only now realizing that you may be using the words 'I' and 'self' quite...
... Yes. 'that in which all my experiences are unified' = 'The experiencing subject'. ... I think we've already established that you believe that Kant believed...
Hello Here is my understanding of Hume and Descartes on the Self. Hume claimed that we do not have a sense-impression of the self. No matter how closely I...
... From: "Joseph Polanik" <jPolanik@...> ... The *use* of the pronoun "I" belongs to experiential awareness, since any kind of "saying" or "thinking" of...
... This is sort of why I feel it is important to ground the discussion at the point in Descartes' second meditation where he is implicitly saying 'I know that...
... From: "theoryphil2004" <bennett_jules@...> ... Kant essentially offers a theory that fulfills your criterion above: a "concept of a self that is...
... In English, 'I' is an indexical word --- meaning that it refers to the user of the word, nothing else. In English, 'self' can be indexical as in the phrase...
Hi Joseph, I think we are in broad agreement with Descartes argument for the existence of a self that has conscious experiences in contrast to Hume. We...
... As I understand the criterion that Julian stated above, the question is whether I, the experiencer, am distinct from the perceptions that I experience. So...
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