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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143299403321

Titolo

The Blackwell guide to Descartes' Meditations / / edited by Stephen Gaukroger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., c2006

ISBN

1-78268-886-2

1-280-23719-8

9786610237197

0-470-79953-6

0-470-77647-1

1-4051-5037-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Blackwell guides to great works ; ; 2

Classificazione

08.24

Altri autori (Persone)

GaukrogerStephen

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

First philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.  [243]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Stephen Gaukroger -- The meditations and the objections and replies / Roger Ariew -- Descartes and scepticism / Charles Larmore -- The cogito and foundations of knowledge / Edwin Curley -- The nature of the mind / Marleen Rozemond -- The doctrine of substance / Jorge Secada -- The doctrine of ideas / Steven Nadler -- Proofs for the existence of God / Lawrence Nolan and Alan Nelson -- The Cartesian circle / Gary Hatfield -- Judgement and will / Michael Della Rocca -- Descartes' proof of the existence of matter / Desmond M. Clarke -- The mind-body relation / John Cottingham -- Seventeenth-century responses to the meditations / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Appendix : Descartes' Six metaphysical meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680).

Sommario/riassunto

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.