The Lure of the Cartesian Sideshow - The Philosophers' Magazine
The Philosophers' Magazine The Lure of the Cartesian Sideshow Is there an internal mental world that is better known to you than the world outside? In his Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes famously described how he could doubt the existence of a world beyond his own mind. He thought he was sitting by the fire in his dressing gown writing, but could he be absolutely certain that he wasn’t in bed dreaming? He couldn’t. He couldn’t be absolutely certain that he had eyes or hands or a bod...
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