Descartes' Meditations
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Descartes' Meditations

A Critical Guide

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Descartes' Meditations

A Critical Guide

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Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations and explores issues such as scepticism, judgement, causation, the nature of meditation and the meditator's relation to God, the nature of personhood, Descartes' theory of sense perception and his ideas on the nature of substance. The contributors bring new insights to both central and less-studied topics in the Meditations, and connect the work with the rich historical and intellectual context in which Descartes forged his thought. The resulting volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars of early modern thought.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781107302020
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Descartes’ Meditations
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Contributors
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Descartes’ texts
  11. Introduction
  12. Part I Skepticism
  13. Chapter 1 The skepticism of the First Meditation
  14. Chapter 2 Descartes and content skepticism
  15. Part II Substance and cause
  16. Chapter 3 Descartes against the materialists: how Descartes’ confrontation with materialism shaped his metaphysics
  17. Chapter 4 Thinking: the nature of Descartes’ mental substance
  18. Chapter 5 Causation and causal axioms
  19. Part III Sensations
  20. Chapter 6 Sensation and knowledge of body in Descartes’ Meditations
  21. Chapter 7 Descartes on sensory representation, objective reality, and material falsity
  22. Part IV The human being
  23. Chapter 8 Teleology and natures in Descartes’ Sixth Meditation
  24. Chapter 9 The role of will in Descartes’ account of judgment
  25. Chapter 10 God and meditation in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy
  26. Chapter 11 Cartesian selves
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index