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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations
  name:
    name part: Cunning, David
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses. God is a necessary existent, that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error, that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment and that minds are immaterial substances. The work is a treasure-trove of views and arguments, but there are controversies about the details of the arguments and about how we are supposed to unpack the views themselves. This Companion offers a rich collection of new perspectives on the Meditations, showing how the work is structured literally as a meditation and how it fits into Descartes' larger philosophical system. Topics include Descartes' views on philosophical method, knowledge, scepticism, God, the nature of mind, free will and the differences between reflective and embodied life. The volume will be valuable to those studying Descartes and early modern philosophy more generally.
  table of contents: Introduction / David Cunning -- 1. The methodology of the Meditations: tradition and innovation / Christia Mercer -- 2. The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and certainty / Charles Larmore -- 3. The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths and the possibility of radical deception / David Cunning -- 4. The Second Meditation and the nature of the human mind / Lilli Alanen -- 5. The Second Meditation: unimaginable bodies and insensible minds / Katherine J. Morris -- 6. The Third Meditation: causal arguments for God's existence / Lawrence Nolan -- 7. The Third Meditation on objective being: representation and intentional content / Amy Schmitter -- 8. The Fourth Meditation: Descartes' theodicy avant la lettre / Thomas M. Lennon -- 9. The Fourth Meditation: Descartes and libertarian freedom / Cecilia Wee -- 10. The Fifth Meditation: Descartes' doctrine of true and immutable natures / Tad M. Schmaltz -- 11. The Fifth Meditation: externality and true and immutable natures / Olli Koistinen -- 12. The Sixth Meditation: Descartes and the embodied self / Deborah Brown -- 13. Sensory perception of bodies: Meditation 6.5 / Alison Simmons -- 14. Descartes' dualism and its relation to Spinoza's metaphysics / Alan Nelson -- 15. The Meditations and Descartes' considered conception of God / Annette Baier.
  note: edited by David Cunning, University of Iowa.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-318) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Descartes, René
      name part: 1596-1650
  subject:
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: First philosophy
  subject:
    topic: God
    topic: Proof, Ontological
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
  classification: B1854 .C35 2014
  classification: 194
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge companions to philosophy
  identifier: 9781107018600 (hardback)
  identifier: 1107018609 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781107630482 (Paperback)
  identifier: 1107630487 (Paperback)
  identifier: 2013028934
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 131017
    record change date: 20151206100628.0
    record identifier: in00003457866