"Ann Scholl revises the traditional understanding of the role of imagination and sensory perception in Descartes's Meditations. Traditionally, Cartesian scholars have focused primarily on sensory perception as the more significant of the two "special" modes of thought. In this w…
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Essays on Descartes' "Meditations"
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"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…
The problem of the first-person point of view -- Epistemic position and the First meditation -- Imagining mind and body -- The idea of a Supreme Being -- Truth and imprecision in the Fourth meditation -- Another proof of the existence of God -- Embodiment and mind-body union -- …
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades. David Cunning's m…
Descartes' Meditations: a critical guide
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"No single text has more importance for the history of philosophy than Descartes' Meditations. This unique collection of background material has been translated from the original French and Latin. The texts gathered here illustrate the kinds of principles, assumptions, and philo…