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Show Notes
Descartes responds to radical uncertainty with an audacious plan: find one belief so secure that nothing—not even deception itself—can shake it.
Topics Discussed:- The historical and intellectual crises of early 17th-century Europe that shaped Descartes’ project
- The motivation behind Descartes’ method of doubt as a response to skepticism
- The regress problem and why it pressures philosophers toward foundationalism
- Descartes’ strategy of withholding belief from anything that can be doubted
- Arguments from sense deception, dreaming, and the evil demon
- Why even mathematics and logic become targets of radical doubt
- The search for indubitable foundations as the starting point for knowledge
- How Descartes’ internal, first-person approach marks a turning point in modern epistemology