Peirce, Descartes and the possibility of a Skeptical Philosophy

Authors

  • Danilo Marcondes PUC-Rio/UFF

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2019v20i1p113-122

Keywords:

Descartes. Method of doubt. Peirce.

Abstract

Peirce’s discussion of Descartes’s method of doubt has attracted great attention among Peirce scholars. I shall try to assess Peirce’s criticism of this method from the point of view of the possibility of a skeptical philosophy, trying to argue that it does not depend on the “cartesian doubt” as it is interpreted by Peirce, and that in fact in many respects Descartes’s view is closer to Peirce’s than it may initially appear to be.

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Published

2019-09-10

How to Cite

Marcondes, D. (2019). Peirce, Descartes and the possibility of a Skeptical Philosophy. Cognitio: Revista De Filosofia, 20(1), 113–122. https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2019v20i1p113-122

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Cognitio Papers