Week 2 Descartes: Meditations 1 and 2

Question 1

Main (philosophical works)

Answer 1

Discourse (1637)
Mediations (1641)
Principia Philosophicae (1644)

Question 2

Cartesian Feminism

Answer 2

Pullain de la Barre (1647-1723)•Published anonymously in 1673 On the Equality of the Two Sexes.
(Poullain de la Barre (2002). Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises. U. of Chicago Press)

Question 3

cogito argument

Answer 3

Based on Descartes’ it sates that establishes the superiority of the mind over the body, Poullain extended the challenge of rational thinking to the polemic of sex and gender.

Question 4

Fallacious argument

Answer 4

this the way things have always been done, therefore they should be done this way

Question 5

Descartes Innovation/Main Contribution

Answer 5

Mthematics is Central•
“Scientific” Revolution:Break away from Scholastics •Philosophical Knowledge: 
(i) unity
(ii) purity and 
(iii) certainty

Question 6

Method of Doubt

Answer 6

An epistemological enterprise. The maliciousdemon and the dream argument

Question 7

The Cogito Argument

Answer 7

The First Principle. This brings a stop to the doubt.