Abstract

AVILA CANAMARES, Ignacio. Accuracy and epistemic agency in Descartes: an exploration of the margins of the First Meditation. Estud.filos [online]. 2019, n.60, pp.85-109. ISSN 0121-3628.  https://doi.org/10.17533/10.17533/udea.ef.n60a05.

In this paper I advance a reading of the contours of the First Meditation. I try to bring out an important dimension of Descartes’s thinking about the virtue of accuracy. I contrast the concern for the truth in daily life and in the Cartesian inquiry. I explore the way in which Descartes faces some epistemic risks in the course of his meditation and highlight some aspects of his conception of epistemic agency. And, finally, I conclude with a brief note about Pascal’s wager.

Keywords : Descartes; accuracy; pure enquiry; epistemic akrasia; epistemic agency; Pascal’s wager..

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