Online Seminar Series
Epistemology – Part XI –

Meditations by Descartes, continued

Sunday, July 10, 2022

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What can we say we know with certainty? What does it mean to say that we know something? How do we know that we know? How does knowledge differ from belief? This series will include works from Plato, Aristotle, Empiricus, Descartes, Hume, Nietzsche, Russell, Popper, and others. These three seminars on Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy will include John Cottingham’s selection from the seven sets of “Objections and Replies,” which accompanied the Meditations’ original publication.

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July 10 Reading:

Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes – Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (February 2017), ISBN 1107665736

Fourth and Fifth Meditations, and selected Objections and Replies:

pp. 42-56 and 113-135 (in the second Cambridge edition)

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Schedule:

12:00-2:00PM PDT

Tutor: 

Carol Seferi

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Location: 

Online. Register to receive the link.