Rene Descartes Father of Modern Philosophy b. March 31 1596 in La Haye France wrote Meditations in 1641 d. February 11 1650.

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Rene Descartes Father of Modern Philosophy b. March 31 1596 in La Haye France wrote Meditations in 1641 d. February 11 1650

Background Galileo and the Copernican system The Protestant Reformation

Epistemology How do I know anything? What does it mean to know something?

The Skeptics Knowledge = A belief that cannot be doubted at all Knowledge is Impossible. We can only have beliefs

Hyperbolic Doubt

Am I really dreaming?

The Evil Genius

The Brain in a Vat

The Truth I cannot Doubt Cogito; ergo sum I think; therefore I am The Truth I cannot Doubt

But What is this “I” who thinks?

I am a Thinking Thing!

Representationalism

The Ego-Centric Predicament/ Problem of the External world How can I know if the world outside of my mind really exists? All I ever can know is what my mind perceives, not what really exists

Where do we get our knowledge? Empiricism Rationalism All knowledge comes from the senses Science is the best kind of knowledge we can have All knowledge comes from self-evident truths grasped by the mind alone Logic and math are the best kind of knowledge we can have

Theories of Perception Direct Realism – The World is exactly as it appears to our senses Indirect Realism – Our primary experience is of ideas in our minds. These ideas are representations of objects in the world Idealism – Physical objects are not real. Only minds and their ideas exist

Immanuel Kant 1724-1804 Rationalism is wrong, because you cannot think unless you have sense experiences But equally Empiricism is wrong because you cannot have valid sense experience unless you first have concepts by which you can interpret your sense experience

Kant’s Core Concepts Ket Terms – Set 1) Analytic and Synthetic. Set 2) A Priori and A Posteriori Analytic concepts = True by definitions of the terms. “All Bachelors are unmarried men.” Synthetic concepts = not true by definition; rather, they had information to our concept. For example, “Baboons can dance.” A Priori truths = true prior to experience A Posteriori truths = true based on experience

Kant’s Synthetic A Priori Space & Time – Not an object of experience. Rather, it’s a “precondition of experience.” We MUST think this way! So it makes no sense to consider whether there is some “reality in itself” that is different.