The Blackwell guide to Descartes' meditations
By: edited by Stephen Gaukroger.
Contributors: Gaukroger, Stephen.
Series: Blackwell guides to great works
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781405118750; 9781405118743
Subjects: Descartes, René, 1596-1650; First philosophy
Description: Contained in this volume are twelve essays on one of the widely taught texts in the history of philosophy. It touches on the themes of the Meditations, including the mind - body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of the material world. It also includes William Molyneux's famous early translation of the Meditations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Stephen Gaukroger; title: The meditations and the objections and replies / Roger Ariew; title: Descartes and scepticism / Charles Larmore; title: The cogito and foundations of knowledge / Edwin Curley; title: The nature of the mind / Marleen Rozemond; title: The doctrine of substance / Jorge Secada; title: The doctrine of ideas / Steven Nadler; title: Proofs for the existence of God / Lawrence Nolan and Alan Nelson; title: The Cartesian circle / Gary Hatfield; title: Judgement and will / Michael Della Rocca; title: Descartes' proof of the existence of matter / Desmond Clarke; title: The mind-body relation / John Cottingham; title: Seventeenth-century responses to the meditations / Tad Schmaltz; title: Appendix: Descartes' metaphysical meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680).