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Type: 
Article in Journal
Author: 
Dabay, Thomas
Title: 
Why Peirce’s Anti-Intuitionism is not Anti-Cartesian: The Diagnosis of a Pragmatist Dogma
Year: 
2016
Journal: 
International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Volume: 
24
Issue: 
4
Pages: 
489-507
Keywords: 
Descartes, Intuition, Anti-Cartesianism, Inferentialism
Abstract: 
A close reading of Descartes’ works, particularly his Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii, calls into question the common interpretation of Peirce’s ‘Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man’ and ‘Some Consequences of Four Incapacities’ as being anti-Cartesian. In particular, Descartes’ conception of intuition differs from Peirce’s, and on one plausible reading of Descartes his intuitionism actually mirrors Peirce’s inferentialism in key respects. Given these similarities between Descartes and Peirce, the dogmatic status of the anti-Cartesian interpretation of Peirce becomes evident.
Language: 
English