Descartes's Meditations Critical Essays

by Chappell, Vere; Carriero, John P.; Markie, Peter J.; Schiffer, Stephen; Delahunty, Robert; O'Toole, Frederick J.; Rosenthal, David M.; Feldman, Fred; Kenny, Anthony; Wilson, Margaret D.; Cottingham, John; Bennett, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780847684861
• ISBN10: 0847684865
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-14
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be valuable not only to philosophers but to historians, theologians, literary scholars, and interested general readers. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii	(2)
Note on the References	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi
1 The First Meditation	1	(32)
John P. Carriero
2 The Cogito and Its Importance	33	(32)
Peter J. Markie
3 Descartes on His Essence	65	(22)
Stephen Schiffer
4 Descartes' Cosmological Argument	87	(16)
Robert Delahunty
5 Descartes' Problematic Causal Principle of Ideas	103	(26)
Frederick J. O'Toole
6 Will and the Theory of Judgment	129	(30)
David M. Rosenthal
7 Epistemic Appraisal and the Cartesian Circle	159	(18)
Fred Feldman
8 Descartes' Ontological Argument	177	(18)
Anthony Kenny
9 Descartes: The Epistemological Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness	195	(12)
Margaret D. Wilson
10 Descartes, Sixth Meditation: The External World, `Nature' and Human Nature	207	(18)
John Cottingham
11 Truth and Stability in Descartes' Meditations	225	(30)
Jonathan Bennett
References	255	(6)
Bibliography	261	(6)
Index of Passages	267	(4)
About the Authors	271