南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院

学术前沿讲座 第322期

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Why Does Descartes Need To Imagine A Deceitful God in His Quest For Truth?

演讲人： 法国巴黎第一大学哲学系教授   

         André Charrak      

时间：2018年11月8日（周四）下午16:10-18:30

地点：仙林邵逸夫楼国际学院C308高研院报告厅

备注：英语演讲

内容提要：

In this Lecture, I will try to shed a new light on an argument exposed in the Metaphysical Meditations (published in latin in 1641), according to which an almighty God could have created the soul such a way that it should always be misguided. I will then show how it is rooted in Descartes’ conception of reasoning. Lastly, I will identify in this false supposition the highest expression of the problems raised by the actual development of philosophy, by proposing a comparison with a given state of knowledge before Descartes. The goal of this Lecture is to show that the extravagante assumption of a deceitful God reaches avery concrete problem, that has to do with the actual scientific reasoning in early Modernity.

主讲人简介：

André Charrak is teaching at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. His research focuses on early modern western philosophy. His publications include these books: Musique et philosophie à l'âge classique (1998), Raison et perception. Fonder l'harmonie au xviiie siècle (2001), Empirisme et métaphysique: Condillac (2003), Contingence et nécessité des lois de la nature au XVIIIe siècle (2006), Empirisme et théorie de la connaissance (2009), Rousseau. De l’empirisme à l’expérience (2013). He translated and commented on Descartes’ letters on physics. He now participates in the new edition of Descartes’ works.