Epistemic individualism and the ‘myth’ of Descartes

Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s marco Damonte
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/53 Language Italian
Pages 11 P. 35-45 File size 69 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2015-053004
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In analytic philosophy the various theories of knowledge are, for the most part, ascribable to the same meta-epistemology: classical deontological internalism. It is a form of epistemic individualism whose origin is ascribed to Descartes. Unfortunately, the reference to him has often rhetorical features. The aim of this paper is to determine how Cartesian the thesis of classical deontological internalism really is. To achieve this purpose, Kenny’s historiographical reconstruction will be taken into consideration. His contribution underlines that individualistic epistemology has an anthropological connotation on which not only the past, but also the future of epistemology depend

marco Damonte, L’individualismo epistemico e il ‘mito’ di Cartesio in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 53/2015, pp 35-45, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2015-053004