Descartes' Meditations: a critical guide
'Descartes' Meditations', one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. These essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars examine a range of central and less-studied topics in the Meditations.
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- Full title :Descartes' Meditations : a critical guide / edited by Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania.
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'Descartes' Meditations', one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. These essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars examine a range of central and less-studied topics in the Meditations.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 264 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521111607, 0521111609
- oclc:ocn831529119
- LC Classification:B1854
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Part I. Skepticism: 1. The skepticism of the first meditation / Thomas M. Lennon and Michael W. Hickson -- 2. Descartes and content skepticism / Deborah Brown -- Part II. Substance and Cause: 3. Descartes against the materialists : how Descartes' confrontation with materialism shaped his metaphysics / Daniel Garber -- 4. Thinking : the nature of Descartes' mental substance / Martha Brandt Bolton -- 5. Causation and causal axioms / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Part III. Sensations: 6. Sensation and knowledge of body in Descartes' Meditations / John Carriero -- 7. Descartes on sensory representation, objective reality, and material falsity / Gary Hatfield -- Part IV. The Human Being: 8. Teleology and natures in Descartes' sixth meditation / Karen Detlefsen -- 9. The role of will in Descartes' Account of judgment / Lilli Alanen -- 10. God and meditation in Descartes' Meditations on first philosophy / Jorge Secada -- 11. Cartesian selves / Lisa Shapiro.
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