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The Blackwell guide to Descartes' Meditations /

Contained in this volume are twelve essays on one of the widely taught texts in the history of philosophy. It touches on the themes of the Meditations, including the mind - body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of the material world. It also includes William Molyneux's famous...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gaukroger, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., ©2006.
Series:Blackwell guides to great works.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Stephen Gaukroger
  • The meditations and the objections and replies / Roger Ariew
  • Descartes and scepticism / Charles Larmore
  • The cogito and foundations of knowledge / Edwin Curley
  • The nature of the mind / Marleen Rozemond
  • The doctrine of substance / Jorge Secada
  • The doctrine of ideas / Steven Nadler
  • Proofs for the existence of God / Lawrence Nolan and Alan Nelson
  • The Cartesian circle / Gary Hatfield
  • Judgement and will / Michael Della Rocca
  • Descartes' proof of the existence of matter / Desmond M. Clarke
  • The mind-body relation / John Cottingham
  • Seventeenth-century responses to the meditations / Tad M. Schmaltz
  • Appendix : Descartes' Six metaphysical meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680).