Descartes' Meditations: a critical guide

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Provide 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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Provide new insights into understanding Descartes' philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

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Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781107313767, 1107313767, 9781139030731, 1139030736
oclc:ocn827335031
LC Classification:B1854
Dewey Decimal:194

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.