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 early translation of the Meditations
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1 online resource (viii, 254 pages)
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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)
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