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The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux's famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy.

• Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context.
• Touches on all of the major themes of the Meditations, including the mind-body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of the material world.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 0.96MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Stephen Gaukroger is Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney, and presently holds an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship. His works include Descartes: An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-modern Philosophy (2001), and Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405150378
• Artikelnr.: 38280356

Rezensionen

"Acute yet bereft of jargon, scholarly yet footnote-free,imaginative yet keenly focused - Descartes could not havedreamt of a more attractive Guide." André Gombay,University of Toronto

"Stephen Gaukroger has assembled a splendid collection ofessays written by some of the best scholars in the field. It helpsthe reader navigate from Descartes' predecessors, through theMeditations, and on to the later reception of this seminaltext. As an extra bonus the volume includes an importantseventeenth-century English translation of Descartes' text.This volume will be used with profit by students of Descartes atevery level." Daniel Garber, Princeton University