The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' MeditationsStephen Gaukroger Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux’s famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy.
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Contents
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Descartes Meditations 1 The Meditations and the Objections and Replies | 6 |
Descartes Meditations 2 Descartes and Skepticism | 17 |
Descartes Meditations 3 The Cogito and the Foundations of Knowledge | 30 |
Descartes Meditations 4 The Nature of the Mind | 48 |
Descartes Meditations 5 The Doctrine of Substance | 67 |
Descartes Meditations 6 The Doctrine of Ideas | 86 |
Descartes Meditations 7 Proofs for the Existence of God | 104 |
Descartes Meditations 9 Judgment and Will | 142 |
Descartes Meditations 10 Descartes Proof of the Existence of Matter | 160 |
Descartes Meditations 11 The MindBody Relation | 179 |
Descartes Meditations 12 Seventeenthcentury Responses to the Meditations | 193 |
Descartes Meditations Appendix Descartes Six Metaphysical Meditations trans William Molyneux 1680 | 204 |
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Descartes Meditations 8 The Cartesian Circle | 122 |
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Aquinas argued argument in Meditation Aristotelian Aristotle Arnauld assent assent-compelling belief Cartesian Cartesian circle causal cause certainty claim clear and distinct clearly and distinctly cogito compatibilism conceive conception consider creatures deceived Descartes says determination Discourse Discourse on Method distinct ideas distinct perception distinctly perceive doctrine empiricist error evident example explain extended external fact faculty false finite formal reality Frans Burman God’s existence grounds for doubt human imagine indubitable innate ideas intellect judgment kind knowledge Leibniz matter Meditation III mental Mersenne metaphysical mind–body modes motion necessary existence non-clear and distinct objective reality one’s ontological ontological argument perfect perhaps physical premise Principles of Philosophy problem proof properly basic properties proposition pure question reason representation requires scholastic seems sensation sense perception sensory simply skeptic skeptical hypothesis soul Spinoza strategy Suárez substance suppose thinking thing thought tion triangle true truth understand