Stop Doubting with Descartes

Did Descartes manage to overcome the skeptics? If we understand “overcome” in sense of “refute,” answer is no, since his hyperbolic doubt harbors several blind spots and is, therefore, not as radical commonly argued. In this way, victory cogito perhaps less decisive fruitful than it claimed. “remove” or “move beyond,” yes. has skepticism, but at cost a decision, sort bet made favor reason based on confidence human mind that never really subverted. This faith reason, truth, specific epistemological principles Descartes’ philosophy constitute what Wittgenstein calls “hinges,” which are indispensable for doubting searching truth. sense, anti-skepticism more order save possibility science result logical refutation.