Essays on Descartes’ Meditations

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University of California Press (1986)
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The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world. There are essays on the genre of meditational writing, on the implications of the opening cathartic section of the book on Descartes' theory of perception and his use of skeptical arguments; essays on the theory of ideas and their role of Descartes' reconstructive analytic method; essays on the proofs for the existence of God, on the role of the will in the formation and malformation of judgments; and the essays on the foundations of the science of extension and on Descartes' account of the union of mind and body.

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1. The Structure of Descartes’ Meditations.  (pages 1-20)Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
2. The Naive Narrator: Meditation in Descartes’ Meditations.  (pages 21-44)L. Aryeh Kosman
3. The Senses and the Fleshless Eye: The Meditations as Cognitive Exercises.  (pages 45-80)Gary Hatfield
4. Semel in vita: The Scientific Background to Descartes’ Meditations.  (pages 81-116)Daniel Garber
5. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Doubt.  (pages 117-140)Michael Williams
6. Descartes and the Problem of Other Minds.  (pages 141-152)Gareth B. Matthews
7. Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas.  (pages 153-176)E. M. Curley
8. The Theory of Ideas.  (pages 177-198)Vere Chappell
9. The Second Meditation and the Essence of the Mind.  (pages 199-222)John P. Carriero
10. Meaning and Objective Being: Descartes and His Sources.  (pages 223-242)Calvin Normore
11. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes’ Meditations?  (pages 243-270)Louis E. Loeb
12. On the Complementarity of Meditations III and V: From the “General Rule” of Evidence to “Certain Science”.  (pages 271-296)Geneviéve Rodis-Lewis
13. The Essential Incoherence of Descartes’ Definition of Divinity.  (pages 297-338)Jean-Luc Marion
14. Can I Be the Cause of My Idea of the World? (Descartes on the Infinite and Indefinite).  (pages 339-358)Margaret D. Wilson
15. The Idea of the True God in Descartes.  (pages 359-388)Annette Baier
16. Confused and Obscure Ideas of Sense.  (pages 389-404)Martha Bolton
17. Will and the Theory of Judgment.  (pages 405-434)David M. Rosenthal
18. Objectum Purae Matheseos: Mathematical Construction and the Passage from Essence to Existence.  (pages 435-458)David R. Lachterman
19. The Status of Necessity and Impossibility in Descartes.  (pages 459-472)Hide Ishiguro
20. Descartes: “All Things Which I Conceive Clearly and Distinctly in Corporeal Objects Are in Them”.  (pages 473-490)Ruth Mattern
21. Why Was Descartes a Foundationalist?  (pages 491-512)Frederick F. Schmitt
22. Cartesian Passions and the Union of Mind and Body.  (pages 513-534)Amélie Oksenberg Rorty

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