Memory and the Cartesian Circle

1962 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry G. Frankfurt
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Circle

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Foley
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Humility ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Cartesian Circle

This chapter makes a plea both for intellectual humility, which cautions against overconfidence in one’s opinions, and for deference to experts when one is not well positioned to reach an opinion on one’s own. The chapter also discusses how Descartes’s efforts to find a method that would inoculate inquirers against error encountered problems with the Cartesian Circle. The chapter concludes that intellectual humility and openness to new ideas are appropriate even for those who have immense expertise in their fields. All the more so, they are the appropriate attitudes for nonexperts to have; and since no one has expertise in all fields, they are the attitudes that specialists in one field should have when considering issues in other fields. The chapter concludes by pointing out, in particular, they are the attitudes those in the humanities ought to have toward work in the sciences, and vice versa.

The Cartesian Circle

1965 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn E. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Circle

The Cartesian Circle Reconsidered

1970 ◽  
Vol 67 (19) ◽  
pp. 668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Gewirth
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Circle

A Journey Around the Cartesian Circle

1983 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewing Y. Chinn ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Circle

THE CARTESIAN CIRCLE: HEGELIAN LOGIC TO THE RESCUE

1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-418
Author(s):  
ERIC v.d. LUFT
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Circle

Circularity and Consistency in Descartes

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Dreisbach
Keyword(s):  
Cartesian Circle ◽  
The Way

The problem of the Cartesian Circle has been with us ever since the publication of the Meditations. This is quite remarkable, since the error of circularity which Descartes is accused of having committed is not a subtle one but is, if there is such an error, a gigantic blunder which is not difficult to discover, which was pointed out to Descartes shortly after the Meditations appeared, and which completely undermines Descartes’ primary project, the establishment of sure and certain knowledge. It is incredible that Descartes, a slow and careful thinker with considerable philosophical talent, could have made such an obvious and egregious error. It is much more plausible that there really is no circularity in Descartes’ argument, and that the charges of circularity grow out of a misunderstanding of Descartes’ intention or of the way in which his argument progresses.The incredible, of course, is possible, and I am not proposing that the question of the circle be resolved merely by dismissing it, nor am I suggesting that the text be ignored in order to force consistency onto Descartes’ thought.

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