Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521111609 ISBN 13: 9780521111607

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations and explores issues such as scepticism, judgement, causation, the nature of meditation and the meditator's relation to God, the nature of personhood, Descartes' theory of sense perception and his ideas on the nature of substance. The contributors bring new insights to both central and less-studied topics in the Meditations, and connect the work with the rich historical and intellectual context in which Descartes forged his thought. The resulting volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars of early modern thought.

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Book Description

Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. These essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars examine a range of central and less-studied topics in the Meditations.

About the Author

Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously contributed articles to Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science and Philosophy Compass.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0521111609
• ISBN 13: 9780521111607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Detlefsen Karen