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By Joseph Almog

ISBN-10: 0195337719

ISBN-13: 9780195337716

Decartes' maxim Cogito, Ergo Sum (from his Meditations) might be the main well-known philosophical expression ever coined. Joseph Almog is a Descartes analyst whose final ebook WHAT AM I? concerned with the second one half this expression, Sum--who is the "I" who's existing-and-thinking and the way does this entity someway include either physique and brain? This quantity appears to be like on the first 1/2 the proposition--cogito. Almog calls this the "thinking man's paradox": how can there be, within the the flora and fauna and as half and parcel of it, a creature that... thinks? Descartes' proposition broadcasts that this type of truth obtains and he continues that it truly is self-evident; yet as Almog issues out, from the viewpoint of Descartes' personal skepticism, it's faraway from seen that there can be a thinking-man. How can it's considering human be either a part of the flora and fauna and but in some way specific and break free it? How did "thinking" come up in an differently "thoughtless" universe and what does it suggest for beings like us to be thinkers? Almog is going again to the Meditations, and utilizing Descartes' personal aposteriori cognitive methodology--his naturalistic, clinical, method of the examine of man--tries to respond to the question.

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