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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvides an excellent introduction. . . . This book will be as useful to beginners as to seasoned academics because it brings together eleven articles that are both clear and profound. . . . The organization of the book is both simple and efficient, and the brief introduction and the bibliography are well done. -- J. M. Beyssade, Sorbonne, University of Paris
This book is a collection of eleven terrific essays that represent a span of nearly thirty years of Descartes scholarship. The book clearly will not only benefit the professional researcher, but it will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate philosophy students interested in Descartes's work. * Review of Metaphysics *
The high quality essays in this reader are carefully arranged to parallel the plot of the Meditations. It is a valuable guide for students of Descartes's most famous philosophical work. -- Alan Nelson, University of California, Irvine
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Note on the Reference Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 The First Meditation Chapter 5 The Cogito and Its Importance Chapter 6 Descartes on His Essence Chapter 7 Descartes' Cosmological Argument Chapter 8 Descartes' Problematic Casual Principle of Ideas Chapter 9 Will and the Theory of Judgment Chapter 10 Epistemic Appraisal and the Cartesian Circle Chapter 11 Descartes' Ontological Argument Chapter 12 Descartes: The Epistemological Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness Chapter 13 Descartes' Sixth Meditation: The External World, 'Nature' and Human Nature Chapter 14 Truth and Stability in Descartes' Meditations Chapter 15 References Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index of Passages Chapter 18 About the Authors
