Descartes Arguments of the Philosophers 1st Edition by Margaret Dauler Wilson, Ted Honderich ISBN 978-0415065764 0415065763
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ISBN 10: 0415065763
ISBN 13: 978-0415065764
Author: Margaret Dauler Wilson, Ted Honderich
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.
Table of contents:
I. General Doubt
Cartesian doubt and Cartesian revolution
The ‘I’ of the Meditations
Assumptions and aims of methodic doubt
Attacking the foundations: ‘these familiar things’
Attacking the foundations: ‘simple and universal things’
The Dreaming Argument: a reconstruction
The opinion of a God who can do anything
‘Principles’
Real doubts
II. Knowledge of Self and Bodies
The concerns of Meditation II
Ego existo
But what then am I?
This wax
Intellectual inspection
Mind ‘better known’ than body
III. Some Perspectives on the Third Meditation
Introduction
Material falsity and objective reality
A God who can do anything
Circularity
Physics and the eternal truths: a speculation
The proof of an all-perfect God
IV. Judgment, Ideas and Thought
Regulating assent
Consciousness
V. True and Immutable Natures
Res extensa
Immutable natures and fictitious ideas: a critique
Immutable natures and the ontological argument
VI. Mind, Body and Things Outside Us
Introduction
Cartesian dualism
The Epistemological Argument
Sensation and the Epistemological Argument
The evidence of the senses
The body which by a certain special right I call mine
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