Descartes
By: Margaret Dauler Wilson
Series: Arguments of the philosophers; Arguments of the philosophers
Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780203167670
Copyright date: 1978
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Cartesian doubt and Cartesian revolution; title: chapter 2 The 'I' of the Meditations; title: chapter 3 Assumptions and aims of methodic doubt; title: chapter 4 Attacking the foundations: 'these familiar things'; title: chapter 5 Attacking the foundations: 'simple and universal things'; title: chapter 6 The Dreaming Argument: a reconstruction; title: chapter 7 The opinion of a God who can do anything; title: chapter 8 'Principles'; title: chapter 9 Real doubts; title: chapter 1 The concerns of Meditation II; title: chapter 2 Ego existo; title: chapter 3 But what then am I?; title: chapter 4 This wax; title: chapter 5 Intellectual inspection; title: chapter 6 Mind 'better known' than body; title: chapter 1 Introduction; title: chapter 2 Material falsity and objective reality; title: chapter 3 A God who can do anything; title: chapter 4 Circularity; title: chapter 5 Physics and the eternal truths: a speculation; title: chapter 6 The proof of an all-perfect God; title: chapter 1 Regulating assent; title: chapter 2 Consciousness; title: chapter 1 Res extensa; title: chapter 2 Immutable natures and fictitious ideas: a critique; title: chapter 3 Immutable natures and the ontological argument; title: chapter 1 Introduction; title: chapter 3 The Epistemological Argument; title: chapter 4 Sensation and the Epistemological Argument; title: chapter 5 The evidence of the senses; title: chapter 6 The body which by a certain special right I call mine.