{"product_id":"9781498276221","title":"The Proof of the External World: Cartesian Theism and the Possibility of Knowledge","description":"“Descartes' attempt to ground the possibility of human knowledge in the existence of God was judged to be a complete failure by his contemporaries, and this remains the universal opinion of philosophers to this day, despite the fact that three and a half centuries of secular epistemology--which attempts to ground the possibility of knowledge either in the unaided human intellect or in natural processes--has failed to do any better. Further, the leading twentieth-century attempts at theistic epistemology reject both the conception of knowledge and the standards of epistemic evaluation that Descartes takes for granted.  “In this book--partly an interpretation of Descartes and partly an attempt to complete his project-- the author attempts to show that a theistic epistemology incorporating Platonic and Aristotelian\/Thomist elements can revitalize the Cartesian approach to the solution of the central problems of epistemology, including that most elusive of prizes--the proof of the external world.”  --From the author's preface","brand":"Wipf \u0026 Stock Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145293119728,"sku":"9781498276221","price":17.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781498276221_p0.jpg?v=1763708505","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781498276221","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}