Abstract

SENEDA, Marcos César. O CETICISMO INACABADO DE DESCARTES. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2011, vol.25, n.spe, pp.215-238.  Epub Jan 31, 2024. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.issn.0102-6801.v25nespeciala2011-10.

The intention of this text is to show that from the point of view of the empirical sciences, the project of demolition of skepticism, conducted by Descartes, continues up to Meditation VI and may not be concluded in it. If this occurs, it is because there are two models of overcoming skepticism in Descartes. The first model is in regard to overcoming the metaphysical doubt. This model is already somewhat successful in Meditation II in which, by analogy with the mathematical procedure, the discovery of evidence that cannot be refused leads to the first certainty, and this becomes the point of departure for the obtaining of others. The second model is in regard to overcoming doubt about the content of the sensible world. Although it may seem that the solution of the second model comes to pass directly from the success obtained in the mastery of the first, this is not so, because although Descartes constructs the foundations of mathematics from a theory of extension, he is not able to resolve in it the problems of Physics understood as a theory of empirical objects.

Keywords : Descartes; Skepticism; Doubt; Physics; Mathematics.

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