The main features of Cartesianism are:
(1) the use of methodical doubt as a tool for testing beliefs and reaching certainty.
– A Companion to Epistemology, p 57
It seems odd to me that keiths, who denies the possibility of certainty, is a champion of Cartesian skepticism.
A Cartesian skeptic will argue that no empirical proposition about anything other than one’s own mind and its contents is sufficiently warranted because there are always legitimate grounds for doubting it.
… A Cartesian requires certainty.
– A Companion to Epistemology, p 457
keiths is not a Cartesian Skeptic.
Cartesian scepticism, more impressed with Descartes’ argument for scepticism than his own reply, holds that we do not have any knowledge of any empirical proposition about anything beyond the contents of our own minds. The reason, roughly put, is that there is a legitimate doubt about all such propositions because there is no way to justifiably deny that our senses are being stimulated by some cause (an evil spirit, for example) which is radically different from the objects which we normally think affect our senses.
A Companion to Epistemology, p 457
keiths is not a Cartesian Skeptic.
Is it even possible to be Cartesian Skeptic?