Intuition, deduction and method in Descartes first philosophy

• Grant number: 10/02337-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2010
• End date: January 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura
• Grantee: Monique Vivian Mendes Guedes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

"This research aims at a less rigid characterization of the acts of understanding, intuition and deduction, from the variability of practical examples of the method, in order to denature an interpretation that has become canonical through the studies of the Cartesian theory of knowledge. The Cartesian claim of science unity as a result of the unity of wisdom, as well as the abstract formulation of the method precepts, conditioned a rigid characterization of these operations that does not consider its peculiarity in the case of mathematics, and especially in its application to the first philosophy. Therefore, our purpose is to show that these areas require a reformulation of the characterization of intellectual operations, so that we can clearly realize that they do not reproduce the model provided by the Aristotelianism." (AU)