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Essays on Descartes' Meditations /

The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rorty, Amélie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1986]
Colección:Major thinkers series ; 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Structure of Descartes' Meditations / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
  • Naive narrator : meditation in Descartes' Meditations / L. Aryen Kosman
  • Senses and the fleshless eye : the Meditations as cognitive exercises / Gary Hatfield
  • Semel in vita : the scientific background to Descartes' Meditations / Daniel Garber
  • Descartes and the metaphysics of doubt / Michael Williams
  • Descartes and the problem of other minds / Gareth B. Matthews
  • Analysis in the Meditations : the quest for clear and distinct ideas / E.M. Curley
  • Theory of ideas / Vere Chappell
  • Second Mediation and the essence of the mind / John P. Carriero
  • Meaning and objective being : Descartes and his sources / Calvin Normore
  • Is there radical dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? / Louis E. Loeb
  • On the complementarity of Meditations III and V : from the "general rule" of evidence to "certain science" / Genevieve Rodis-Lewis
  • Essential incoherence of Descartes' definition of divinity / Jean-Luc Marion
  • Can I be the cause of my idea of the world? (Descartes on the infinite and indefinite) / Margaret D. Wilson
  • Idea of the true God in Descartes / Annette Baier
  • Confused and obscure ideas of sense / Martha Bolton
  • Will and the theory of judgment / David M. Rosenthal
  • Objectum Purae Matheseos : mathematical construction and the passage from essence to existence / David R. Lachterman
  • Status of necessity and impossibility in Descartes / Hide Ishiguro
  • Descartes : "All things which I conceive clearly and distinctly in corporeal objects are in them" / Ruth Mattern
  • Why was Descartes a foundationalist? / Frederick F. Schmitt
  • Cartesian passions and the union of mind and body / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty.