The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations

Table of Contents

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's 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's 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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