Descartes : an analytical and historical introduction /

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'...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dicker, Georges, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650. > Meditationes de prima philosophia.
Descartes, René, > 31.03.1596-11.02.1650. > Meditationes de prima philosophia.
Meditationes de prima philosophia (Descartes, René)
First philosophy.
God > Proof, Ontological.
Methodology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Metaphysics
Methods
Métaphysique.
Dieu > Existence > Preuve ontologique.
Méthodologie.
Théorie de la connaissance.
metaphysics.
methodology.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Meditation I and the Method of Doubt
  • 1. Descartes's Goal
  • 2. Cartesian Doubt
  • 3. Is The Cartesian Doubt Self-Refuting?
  • 3.1. Deceptiveness of the Senses
  • 3.2. Dream Argument
  • 3.3. Deceiver Argument
  • 2. Meditation II: The Cogito and the Self
  • 1. Descartes's "I Am Thinking, Therefore I Exist"
  • 2. Certainty Of One's Own Thoughts
  • 3. Problem For The Cogito
  • 4. Substance Theory
  • 5. Reconstruction Of The Cogito Based On The Substance Theory
  • 6. Critical Discussion Of The Reconstructed Cogito
  • 6.1. Substance Theory and the Argument from Change
  • 6.2. Corollary
  • 6.3. Assumption That Thoughts Are Properties
  • 6.4. Inference to "I Exist"
  • 7. Defense Of The Unreconstructed COGITO
  • 8. Does The Unreconstructed COGITO Require An Additional Premise?
  • 9. Descartes's Conception Of The Self
  • 10. Cartesian Dualism
  • 3. Meditation III: The Criterion of Truth and the Existence of God
  • 1. Descartes's Criterion Of Truth
  • 2. Project Of Meditation III
  • 3. From The Idea Of God To God
  • 3.1. Nature of Ideas
  • 3.2. Objective Reality and Formal Reality
  • 3.3. Core Argument
  • 3.4. Central Argument of Meditation III: The Subargument, the Core Argument, and the Sequel
  • 4. Criticisms Of Descartes's Central Argument In Meditation III
  • 4.1. Subargument
  • 4.1.1. Precontainment Principle
  • 4.1.2. Degrees of Reality
  • 4.1.3. Justifying the Causal Maxim
  • 4.2. Problem of the Cartesian Circle
  • 4.2.1. Restriction of the Doubt to Past Clear and Distinct Perceptions Defense
  • 4.2.2. General Rule Defense
  • 4.2.3. Radical Doubt of Reason and the Creation of the Eternal Truths
  • 4.2.4. Validation of Reason
  • 4.3. Final Criticism of the Core Argument
  • 4. Meditation IV: Error, Freedom, and Evil
  • 1. Issues Of The Fourth Meditation
  • 2. Error And The Will
  • 3. Some Possible Objections
  • 3.1. Assenting and Deciding to Believe
  • 3.2. Irresistibility and Freedom
  • 4. Coherence Of Cartesian Freedom
  • 5. Descartes's Troubling Letter To Mesland
  • 6. Error And Evil
  • 6.1. Problem of Evil
  • 6.2. Cartesian Theodicy
  • 6.3. Some Critical Reflections
  • 5. Meditation V: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
  • 1. Descartes's Ontological Argument
  • 2. Critique Of The Ontological Argument
  • 2.1. Gaunilo's Objection
  • 2.2. Kant's Objection
  • 2.3. Further Consideration of Kant's Objection
  • 2.4. Caterus's Objection
  • 3. Some Implications For Descartes's System
  • 6. Meditation VI: Dualism and the Material World
  • 1. Scope Of Meditation VI
  • 2. Descartes's Proof Of The Real Distinction Between Mind And Body
  • 3. Descartes's Proof Of The Material World
  • 4. Descartes On The Nature Of The Material World
  • 4.1. Primary and Secondary Qualities
  • 4.2. Matter, Space, and Solidity
  • 4.3. Bodies as Substances versus Bodies as Modes of Substance
  • 5. Dualism And The Problem Of Interaction
  • 6. Assessment Of Cartesian Dualism.

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