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Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations and explores issues such as scepticism, judgement, causation, the nature of meditation and the meditator's relation to God, the nature of personhood, Descartes' theory of sense perception and his ideas on the nature of substance. The contributors bring new insights to both central and less-studied topics in the Meditations, and connect the work with the rich historical and intellectual context in which Descartes forged his thought. The resulting volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars of early modern thought.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Descartesā Meditations
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Descartesā texts
- Introduction
- Part I Skepticism
- Chapter 1 The skepticism of the First Meditation
- Chapter 2 Descartes and content skepticism
- Part II Substance and cause
- Chapter 3 Descartes against the materialists: how Descartesā confrontation with materialism shaped his metaphysics
- Chapter 4 Thinking: the nature of Descartesā mental substance
- Chapter 5 Causation and causal axioms
- Part III Sensations
- Chapter 6 Sensation and knowledge of body in Descartesā Meditations
- Chapter 7 Descartes on sensory representation, objective reality, and material falsity
- Part IV The human being
- Chapter 8 Teleology and natures in Descartesā Sixth Meditation
- Chapter 9 The role of will in Descartesā account of judgment
- Chapter 10 God and meditation in Descartesā Meditations on First Philosophy
- Chapter 11 Cartesian selves
- Bibliography
- Index