Descartes's Meditations

Critical Essays
Herausgeber: Chappell, Vere

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be valuable not only to philosophers but to historians, theologians, literary scholars, and interested general readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780847684878
• ISBN-10: 0847684873
• Artikelnr.: 21470076

Autorenporträt

Vere Chappell is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. He is editor and co-author of the Cambridge Companion to Locke, and the co-author of Twenty-Five Years of Descartes Scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 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