The Cambridge companion to Descartes' Meditations / edited by David Cunning, University of Iowa.
Cunning, David.
2014
B1854 .C35 2014 (Mapit)
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The Cambridge companion to Descartes' Meditations / edited by David Cunning, University of Iowa.
ISBN
9781107018600 hardcover
1107018609 hardcover
9781107630482 paperback
1107630487 paperback
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Language Note
Text in English.
Description
xviii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
B1854 .C35 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
194
Summary
"Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that minds are immaterial substances. The work is a treasure-trove of views and arguments, but there are controversies about the details of the arguments and about how we are supposed to unpack the views themselves. This Companion offers a rich collection of new perspectives on the Meditations, showing how the work is structured literally as a meditation and how it fits into Descartes' larger philosophical system. Topics include Descartes' views on philosophical method, knowledge, scepticism, God, the nature of mind, free will, and the differences between reflective and embodied life. The volume will be valuable to those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy more generally"-- Provided by publisher.
"Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that minds are immaterial substances. The work is a treasure-trove of views and arguments, but there are controversies about the details of the arguments and about how we are supposed to unpack the views themselves"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-318) and index.
Added Author
Cunning, David.
Series
Cambridge companions to philosophy.
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Introduction / David Cunning
1. The methodology of the Meditations: tradition and innovation / Christia Mercer
2. The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and certainty / Charles Larmore
3. The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths and the possibility of radical deception / David Cunning
4. The Second Meditation and the nature of the human mind / Lilli Alanen
5. The Second Meditation: unimaginable bodies and insensible minds / Katherine J. Morris
6. The Third Meditation: causal arguments for God's existence / Lawrence Nolan
7. The Third Meditation on objective being: representation and intentional content / Amy Schmitter
8. The Fourth Meditation: Descartes' theodicy avant la lettre / Thomas M. Lennon
9. The Fourth Meditation: Descartes and libertarian freedom / Cecilia Wee
10. The Fifth Meditation: Descartes' doctrine of true and immutable natures / Tad M. Schmaltz
11. The Fifth Meditation: externality and true and immutable natures / Olli Koistinen
12. The Sixth Meditation: Descartes and the embodied self / Deborah Brown
13. Sensory perception of bodies: Meditation 6.5 / Alison Simmons
14. Descartes' dualism and its relation to Spinoza's metaphysics / Alan Nelson
15. The Meditations and Descartes' considered conception of God / Annette Baier.

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