Descartes' Meditations: a critical guide
This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.
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- Full title :Descartes' Meditations : a critical guide / edited by Karen Detlefsen.
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This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139030731, 1139030736, 0521111609, 9780521111607, 9781107305328, 1107305322
- oclc:on1113446272
- LC Classification:B1854
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
Cover -- Descartes' Meditations -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Descartes' texts -- Introduction -- Part I Skepticism -- Chapter 1 The skepticism of the First Meditation -- Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Chapter 2 Descartes and content skepticism -- I Introduction -- II Descartes and ancient skepticism -- III Descartes' departure from the ancients -- IV Content skepticism -- V Sensory ideas and material falsity -- VI Apraxia and trust in the senses -- VII Conclusion -- Part II Substance and cause -- Chapter 3 Descartes against the materialists: how Descartes' confrontation with materialism shaped his metaphysics -- Hobbes against Descartes: mind, body, and substance -- Descartes on substance: the Meditations and the Second Replies -- Descartes on substance: the reply to Hobbes -- Descartes on substance: the reply to Arnauld and beyond -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4 Thinking: the nature of Descartes' mental substance -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter 5 Causation and causal axioms -- 1 Causal Containment Axiom (CCA) -- 2 Conservation-Is-Creation Axiom (C-I-CA) -- 3 Universal Causation Axiom (UCA) -- Part III Sen…
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