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Subject: Re: here is the article on descartes
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     An excellent book which rejects foundationalism as the basis for philosophy
is "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" (Man and the Mirror of Nature ???).
by Richard Rorty. His ripping apart of conventional notions of foundational
philosophy "as an ultimate context of thought", and the syntactical mess with
which we discuss philosophical concepts, as well as a triumph over dualism,
is supurb. Chapter One is probably all one will want to read, as the remainder
of the book is quite technical in its treatment of behaviourism, cognitive
psychology, etc.

     I just finished this last term in a Philosophy of Mind course, but most
of it has already been forgotten......

     As for ontonlogical and epistomological questions (with respect to cognitive
science and AI) "Brainstorms" by Daniel Dennett is very good.



>From the last of the analog.....


David        ( decvax!duke!mcnc!(unc-c,urp)!dya )