COGITO? Descartes and Thinking the World
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978-0-19-533771-6
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2008
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loginCogito should be the last proposition in one ’s repertoire to engender a question mark.* What is this question mark doing then? Is there any question–doubt–uncertainty about my . . . thinking? Is this not, as Descartes likes to say, the “Archimedean point” of my (cognitive) life? My students often complain with impatience that, by wonder-ing in this Cogito? vein, I confront them with another one of those invented philosophical problems. What in the world could be the problem about thinking, since we do it all the time, we live by it?
