The Appeal to Reason: The Legitimacy of Science and the Cartesian Genealogy of Knowledge

Dissertation, Yale University (1980)
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It has been maintained that modern philosophy's search for incorrigible foundations arose as a direct response to the threat of skepticism. I shall argue that such a position does not do justice to the complex motivations which compelled the seventeenth century savants, Descartes most notably

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