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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Amelie Oksenberg Rorty Imprint: University of California Press Country of Publication: United States Volume: 4 Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 726g ISBN:9780520055094 ISBN 10: 0520055098 Series:Philosophical Traditions Pages: 534 Publication Date:22 January 1986 Audience:
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"Preface Chronology General Bibliography 1. The Structure of Descartes' Meditations AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY 2. The Naive Narrator: Meditation in Descartes' Meditations L. ARYEH KOSMAN 3. The Senses and the Fleshless Eye: The Meditations as Cognitive Exercises GARY HATFIELD 4. Semel in vita: The Scientific Background to Descartes' Meditations DANIEL GARBER 5. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Doubt MICHAEL WILLIAMS 6. Descartes and the Problem of Other Minds- GARETH B. MATTHEWS 7. Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas E. M. CURLEY 8. The Theory of Ideas VERE CHAPPELL 9. The Second Meditation and the Essence of the Mind JOHN P. CARRIERO 10. Meaning and Objective Being: Descartes and His Sources CALVIN NORMORE 11. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations? LOUIS E. LOEB 12. On the Complementarity of Meditations III and V: From the ""General Rule"" of Evidence to ""Certain Science"" GENEVIEVE Roms-LEWIS 13. The Essential Incoherence of Descartes' Definition of Divinity JEAN-LUC MARION 14. Can I Be the Cause of My Idea of the World? (Descartes on the Infinite and Indefinite) MARGARET D. WILSON 15. The Idea of the True God in Descartes ANNETTE BAIER 16. Confused and Obscure Ideas of Sense MARTHA BOLTON 17. Will and the Theory of Judgment DAVID M. ROSENTHAL 18. ObjectumP uraeM atheseos:M athematical Construction and the Passage from Essence to Existence DAVID R. LACHTERMAN 19. The Status of Necessity and Impossibility in Descartes HIDE ISHIGURO 20. Descartes: ""All Things Which I Conceive Clearly and Distinctly in Corporeal Objects Are in Them"" RUTH MATTERN 21. Why Was Descartes a Foundationalist? FREDERICK F. SCHMITT 22. Cartesian Passions and the Union of Mind and Body AMELIE OKSENBERG RORTY Contributors"
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.
