Precedence-type tests and applications / N. Balakrishnan, H.K. Tony Ng.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover Contents Introduction Unreconstructed Versus Innocent Cartesianism Innocent cartesianism and pre-philosophical ways of thinking Between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy Acknowledgements 1 Radical Doubt, the Rational Self, and Inner Space A doubt that overreaches itself? Unreconstructed Cartesianism: the target of the doubt The Species-less Self and God The Solipsistic Self as the Residue of the Doubt: three claims of incoherence Innocent Cartesianism in the Theory of Self-Reference Self-Implicatingness and First-Person Authority 2 Knowledge, the Self, and Internalism The autonomy of knowing and the prejudices of childhood Externalism and Reflectiveness 'Meta-epistemology' versus 'normative epistemology' Internalism and the Ethics of Belief Internalism and externalism 3 The Belief in Foundations Unreconstructed cartesianism and the justification of the new science Ideal Method and Actual Practice Two Kinds of Success-of-Science Argument Descartes s foundations and innocent cartesian foundations Another Innocent Cartesianism about Foundations? 4 Conscious Experience and the Mind Descartes s soul and unreconstructed cartesianism about the mind Towards Innocent Cartesianism Naturalism and Èxistential Naturalism' Reactions to Irreducibility Claims 5 Reason, Emotion, and Action Damasio's Error Cartesian Practical Reason Innocent Cartesianism about Practical Reason 6 Anthropology, Misogyny, and Anthropocentrism Cartesian Misogyny? Cartesian Speciesism Lesser parts of worthwhile wholes and rationalist intervention Rationalism Again Conclusion.

Full coverage of statistical techniques for developing and implementing precedence-type testsPrecedence-Type Tests and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and applied approaches to a variety of problems in which precedence-type test procedures can be used.

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