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Hey, I bought the Penguin Descartes Meditations book a few days ago and have since done my usual rewriting thing (including the meditations...

*Claire makes grand entrance* I'm actually really happy as Matt is a genius and told me how I can post posts and so now I shall post a p...

Roll up! Roll up! See the phantasmical " MIKE, THE HEADLESS CHICKEN " Also, i was thinking about animals and morality earlier, rec...

Read the posts on 1. Clear and Distinct Ideas and the Cartesian Circle, 2. The Ontological Argument, and then write the fol...

You need to read Meditation 5, especially section 7 onwards. Before we begin, remember why it is important for Descartes to prove the existe...

Descartes argues that he is a res cogitans , a thinking thing. He is a thing that "doubts, perceives, affirms, denies, wills, does not ...

Descartes is a rationalist. The cogito argument rests on an acceptance of an idea that is immediately present to his mind - not on experienc...

In Meditations II Descartes argues that even if the Evil Demon is deceiving him about everything else, it cannot be deceiving him about one ...

Descartes begins by adopting the position of a global sceptic. He wants to doubt everything because he wants to get back to the foundations ...

I have never seen the Matrix before (shock horror) but i am fairly sure this is a good example of what to expect - watch out for something i...

A small task for you to do before the start of next term. Read Meditation 2 and makes sure you really understand the cogito argument. Then w...

I will be back in school on Monday (July 20th) and we will have a lesson - in fact, the last lesson of the year. Please be there. (Also Lite...

This is work for you to do this week. We miss a lesson on Monday and two on Wednesday, when I am not in, so this is for you to have complete...

MEDITATION I. OF THE THINGS OF WHICH WE MAY DOUBT. 1. SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted, even fr...

Dear Students In your exam essays please remember to select examples and to evaluate (criticise) as well as describe. For example, if you we...