The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

by Thomas M. Lennon

This historical study of Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Censura philosophiae cartesiana (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartes’s the method of doubt, the cogito, proofs of God’s existence, etc.

Genres: Philosophy

272 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2008