Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-114) and index.
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Synopsis : the thinking-man paradox -- Thinking about the sun I : the fundamental case -- Thinking about the sun II : thinking-about versus knowing-which -- Thinking about God (and nature-as-a-whole) -- Descartes' cosmological invariants I : thinking -- Descartes' cosmological invariants II : knowing.
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Decartes' maxim 'Cogito, ergo sum' is perhaps the most famous philosophical expression ever coined. This volume looks at the first half of the proposition - cogito. Almog calls this the 'thinking man's paradox' - that there can be, in the natural world and as part and parcel of it, a creature that thinks.