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Title Essays on Descartes' Meditations / edited by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1986]
©1986

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Description xii, 534 pages ; 24 cm
Series Major thinkers series ; 4
Major thinkers series ; 4
Contents Structure of Descartes' Meditations / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty -- Naive narrator : meditation in Descartes' Meditations / L. Aryen Kosman -- Senses and the fleshless eye : the Meditations as cognitive exercises / Gary Hatfield -- Semel in vita : the scientific background to Descartes' Meditations / Daniel Garber -- Descartes and the metaphysics of doubt / Michael Williams -- Descartes and the problem of other minds / Gareth B. Matthews -- Analysis in the Meditations : the quest for clear and distinct ideas / E.M. Curley -- Theory of ideas / Vere Chappell -- Second Mediation and the essence of the mind / John P. Carriero -- Meaning and objective being : Descartes and his sources / Calvin Normore -- Is there radical dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? / Louis E. Loeb -- On the complementarity of Meditations III and V : from the "general rule" of evidence to "certain science" / Genevieve Rodis-Lewis -- Essential incoherence of Descartes' definition of divinity / Jean-Luc Marion -- Can I be the cause of my idea of the world? (Descartes on the infinite and indefinite) / Margaret D. Wilson -- Idea of the true God in Descartes / Annette Baier -- Confused and obscure ideas of sense / Martha Bolton -- Will and the theory of judgment / David M. Rosenthal -- Objectum Purae Matheseos : mathematical construction and the passage from essence to existence / David R. Lachterman -- Status of necessity and impossibility in Descartes / Hide Ishiguro -- Descartes : "All things which I conceive clearly and distinctly in corporeal objects are in them" / Ruth Mattern -- Why was Descartes a foundationalist? / Frederick F. Schmitt -- Cartesian passions and the union of mind and body / Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Analysis French philosophy Descartes, René 1596-1650
Notes Includes bibliography
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.
First philosophy.
Author Rorty, Amélie.
LC no. 85008643
ISBN 0520054962
0520055098