Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-8486-1 • Hardback • August 1997 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-0-8476-8487-8 • Paperback • August 1997 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Vere Chappell is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. He is editor and co-author of the Cambridge Companion to Locke, and the co-author of Twenty-Five Years of Descartes Scholarship.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Note on the Reference
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 The First Meditation
Chapter 5 The Cogito and Its Importance
Chapter 6 Descartes on His Essence
Chapter 7 Descartes' Cosmological Argument
Chapter 8 Descartes' Problematic Casual Principle of Ideas
Chapter 9 Will and the Theory of Judgment
Chapter 10 Epistemic Appraisal and the Cartesian Circle
Chapter 11 Descartes' Ontological Argument
Chapter 12 Descartes: The Epistemological Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness
Chapter 13 Descartes' Sixth Meditation: The External World, 'Nature' and Human Nature
Chapter 14 Truth and Stability in Descartes' Meditations
Chapter 15 References
Chapter 16 Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index of Passages
Chapter 18 About the Authors
Provides an excellent introduction. . . . This book will be as useful to beginners as to seasoned academics because it brings together eleven articles that are both clear and profound. . . . The organization of the book is both simple and efficient, and the brief introduction and the bibliography are well done.
— J. M. Beyssade, Sorbonne, University of Paris
This book is a collection of eleven terrific essays that represent a span of nearly thirty years of Descartes scholarship. The book clearly will not only benefit the professional researcher, but it will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate philosophy students interested in Descartes's work.
— Review of Metaphysics
The high quality essays in this reader are carefully arranged to parallel the plot of the Meditations. It is a valuable guide for students of Descartes's most famous philosophical work.
— Alan Nelson, University of California, Irvine
—Concise Descartes chronology
—Annotated bibliography
—Index of names and subjects
—Index of passages cited