Thinker
René Descartes
Where René Descartes turns up in the books of Quim Aiguafreda, and which chapters take him up in detail.
Books
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Solipsism Taken Seriously
The External World, Other Minds, and the Limits of Knowledge
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Epistemology and the Shape of Truth
How Philosophy Explores the Boundaries of Knowledge
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Making Sense of Metaphysics
A Simple Guide to Reality
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The Enlightenment Mind
How Philosophers Challenged Tradition and Reimagined the World
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Big Questions in Philosophy of Mind
Consciousness, Self, and Identity Explained Simply
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Is Reality a Simulation?
The Philosophy, Arguments, and Implications of the Simulation Hypothesis
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Space and Time Beyond Common Sense
From Ancient Metaphysics to Modern Cosmology
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Posthumanism and the More-Than-Human World
Life, Matter, and the Question of Agency
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The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Mind, Meaning, and the End of Human Exceptionalism
Chapters that take up Descartes
Solipsism Taken Seriously
- The Dream Argument, or Why Descartes Ruined Mornings
- Descartes Deletes the Universe
Epistemology and the Shape of Truth
- Descartes Doubts Everything
Making Sense of Metaphysics
- Descartes: When Reality Split in Two
The Enlightenment Mind
- Descartes Deletes Everything
Big Questions in Philosophy of Mind
- Descartes: “I Think, Therefore I’ve Made Everything Worse”
Is Reality a Simulation?
- Descartes Gets a Software Upgrade
Space and Time Beyond Common Sense
- Descartes Fills Space Completely
Posthumanism and the More-Than-Human World
- Descartes and the Suspiciously Clean Mind