Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
Book
Conceptual Bridge
Metaphysics and Philosophy
Citation
René Descartes. (1641). Meditationes de Prima Philosophia.
Why this reference is included
Descartes’ Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641) sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited in Book VII (Categorical Metaphysics), Part 3, Chapter The Ontology-Epistemology Dissolution, where the program draws on it in the context of “Ontology asks: What is there? Epistemology asks: What can we know about what is there? The gap between the two questions generates the central dramas of modern philosophy:….”
Cited in
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Book VII — Categorical Metaphysics Part 3Chapter The Ontology-Epistemology Dissolution
Ontology asks: What is there? Epistemology asks: What can we know about what is there? The gap between the two questions generates the central dramas of modern philosophy: Descartes' doubt, Hume's skepticism, Kant's critical project, the analytic-continental divide