Margaret Dauler Wilson

Descartes (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Honderich, Ted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most significant studies of Descartes in recent times. It concentrates on the Meditations to show Descartes' philosophy in the context of his overall scientific objectives, not all of them fully explicit in the texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134963515
• Artikelnr.: 42830045

Autorenporträt

Margaret Dauler Wilson, Series Editor-Ted Honderich

Inhaltsangabe

Preface A Note on Descartes's Life and Works I General Doubt 1 Cartesian
doubt and Cartesian revolution 2 The 'I' of the Meditations 3 Assumptions
and aims of methodic doubt 4 Attacking the foundations: 'these familiar
things' 5 Attacking the foundations: 'simple and universal things' 6 The
Dreaming Argument: a reconstruction 7 The opinion of a God who can do
anything 8 'Principles' 9 Real doubts II Knowledge of Self and Bodies 1 The
concerns of Meditation II 2 Ego existo 3 But what then am I? 4 This wax 5
Intellectual inspection 6 Mind 'better known' than body III Some
Perspectives on the Third Meditation 1 Introduction 2 Material falsity and
objective reality 3 A God who can do anything 14 Circularity 5 Physics and
the eternal truths: a speculation 6 The proof of an all-perfect God IV
Judgment, Ideas and Thought 1 Regulating assent 2 Consciousness V True and
Immutable Natures 1 Res extensa 2 Immutable natures and fictitious ideas: a
critique 3 Immutable natures and the ontological argument VI Mind, Body and
Things Outside Us 1 Introduction 2 Cartesian dualism 3 The Epistemological
Argument 4 Sensation and the Epistemological Argument 5 The evidence of the
senses 6 The body which by a certain special right I call mine