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Cogito? - Descartes and Thinking the World (Hardcover)
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Cogito? - Descartes and Thinking the World (Hardcover)
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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 and he maintains that it is self-evident;
but as Almog points out, from the point of view of Descartes' own
skepticism, it is far from obvious that there could be a
thinking-man. How can it be that a thinking human be both part of
the natural world and yet somehow distinct and separate from it?
How did "thinking" arise in an otherwise "thoughtless" universe and
what does it mean for beings like us to be thinkers? Almog goes
back to the Meditations, and using Descartes' own aposteriori
cognitive methodology--his naturalistic, scientific, approach to
the study of man--tries to answer the question.
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