This study serves as an introduction to Descartes's ideas and as a sophisticated companion to his 'Meditations'. The volume provides a thorough discussion of several basic issues of epistemology and metaphysics elicited from the main themes and arguments of the 'Meditations'. It…
This study serves as an introduction to Descartes's ideas and as a sophisticated companion to his 'Meditations'. The volume provides a thorough discussion of several basic issues of epistemology and metaphysics elicited from the main themes and arguments of the 'Meditations'. It…
A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant. It is also crucial to the study of contemporary epistemolo…
This new edition of Georges Dicker's commentary on Descartes's masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, features a new chapter on the fourth meditation and improved treatments of the famous cogito ergo sum and the notorious problem of the Cartesian Circle, among numerous ot…
This new edition of Georges Dicker's commentary on Descartes's masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, features a new chapter on the fourth meditation and improved treatments of the famous cogito ergo sum and the notorious problem of the Cartesian Circle, among numerous ot…
This study serves as an introduction to Descartes's ideas and as a sophisticated companion to his 'Meditations'. The volume provides a thorough discussion of several basic issues of epistemology and metaphysics elicited from the main themes and arguments of the 'Meditations'. It…
Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that min…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction David Cunning; 1. The methodology of the Meditations: tradition and innovation Christia Mercer; 2. The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and certainty Charles Larmore; 3. The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths and…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction David Cunning; 1. The methodology of the Meditations: tradition and innovation Christia Mercer; 2. The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and certainty Charles Larmore; 3. The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths and…
"Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that mi…
"Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that mi…
"Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that mi…
"Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that mi…