The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations
Part of Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
- Editor: David Cunning, University of Iowa
- Date Published: January 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107018600
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Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that minds are immaterial substances. The work is a treasure-trove of views and arguments, but there are controversies about the details of the arguments and about how we are supposed to unpack the views themselves. This Companion offers a rich collection of new perspectives on the Meditations, showing how the work is structured literally as a meditation and how it fits into Descartes' larger philosophical system. Topics include Descartes' views on philosophical method, knowledge, skepticism, God, the nature of mind, free will, and the differences between reflective and embodied life. The volume will be valuable to those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy more generally.
Read more- Includes two chapters on each of Descartes' six Meditations, thereby offering different interpretive approaches
- Highlights the way in which Descartes' Meditations is literally a meditation, progressing from the position that we occupy at the start of enquiry to a position that is more considered and more advanced
- Treats the material in each Meditation with an eye to Descartes' larger system, as well as discussing the views of the Meditations from a post-Meditations perspective
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- Date Published: January 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107018600
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- availability: Available
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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