Descartes Discussion

As meditators who have been led through his destructive arguments all the while denying everything ourselves, senses, the world, every objec...

To discover truth we must look deeper into our own thoughts instead of thoughts of things outside us. So, now that we have abandoned the que...

The will, also called freedom of choice, is the greatest perfection in us. It is not restricted in any way by God or any other force. In fac...

What is it for an idea to resemble a thing? Resemble? Resemble… resemble… this mundane and commonplace word is suddenly foreign to me. Comin...

Nature as teacher comes from the resemblance thesis (as it is called by Hatfield). It is one explanation for why we believe that things outs...

The meditator begins Meditation 3 by realigning her thoughts with the cogito after a rousing frolic through the magical world of wax, now sh...

A piece of wax seems so simple. The residual taste of honey, a sweet fragrance, yellowish appearance, sticky and solid: that’s all there is ...