Abstract
This episode is part two of four of the lecture series [HTA 7] on René Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditations 1-3.
Guiding Questions
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Why can I not doubt cogito ergo sum, or I am thinking, therefore I exist?
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How do we know the wax is the same wax after changing form through melting?
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How does our judgment-perception of the automatons prove that all sense perception is actually and has always actually been mental judgment?
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What does this say about our perception, cognition, and mind in relation to the world we believe is external to us? In other words, are our worlds truly external?
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Is our belief that worlds are external to us sufficient evidence to prove they are?
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Are there any experiences which do not count as thinking or mental activity [in the Second Meditation]? Can we access non-thinking reality, non-thought?