Descartes’ın rüya şüpheciliği, uyku ve uyanıklık halinin nasıl ayırt edileceği üzerine gelişmiştir. Descartes, ‘Şu an rüyada olmadığımı nereden bilebilirim?’ sorusu ile rüyayı, epistemik şüphesinin merkezine oturtmaktadır. Descartes sonrası Kartezyen şüpheciliğini de belirleyen bu problem, şüpheden ontolojik şüpheye evrilmiş konusu hem epistemolojinin ontolojinin haline gelmiştir. Bu aşamada od...

Review of Reuter, M., & Svensson, F. (Eds.). (2019). Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes Spinoza. Oxon: Routledge.

In this paper I argue that the continued relevance of Descartes' philosophy for present-day concerns can be demonstrated by bringing to bear on his Meditations state-of-the-art developments in Informal logic and Argumentation theory, specifically Leo Groarke’s approach multimodal arguments. show meditative exercises Descartes viewed as preconditions establishing metaphysical tenets system recas...

It seems odd that after 370 years or so, since Descartes published his Meditations (1641), we are still wrestling with his thought. Not just philosophers, but scientists who study the mind, as well (see, e.g., Edelman 2006). By the time Descartes himself arrives at his Sixth Meditation, he is wresting with his own thought. Insofar as he defined the self as a thinking thing (res cogitans) in the...

It is a standard criticism of Descartes' dream argument that it must necessarily fail because it is inconsistent with itself: it has to assume the truth of what it sets out to deny. It concludes that there is no difference between dreaming and waking and that our experiences may be false delusions, while the premises, which liken waking to dreaming and assert the illusory character of the latte...