Walking, thinking and knowing. Comments to "Ambulo, ergo sum", by Lucy O-Brien.

PEREZ, DIANA INÉS

MAdrid

Workshop; 3rd Workshop: Agency, Rationality and Normativity; 2014

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

In this paper a make a few comments to "Ambulo, ergo sum", by Lucy O-Brien. Descartes´ cogito is probably one of the most quoted and discussed pieces of philosophy ever written. The bewitch of the cogito is still among us. I have my own view about the cogito, and I do not share some of the initial assumptions that O´Brien takes for granted in order to develop her paper. I also have a different reading about Moore´s proof. So I will first state my own reading of both classics, and then I will discuss Lucy´s proposal about the "ambulo" argument. Finally I will say a few words about the primacy of movement.