Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus (Philosophers in Focus)

✍ Scribed by Stanley Tweyman (editor)

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 233
Series: Philosophers in Focus
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume presents the excellent and popular translation by Haldane and Ross of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, an introduction by Stanley Tweyman which explores the relevance of Descartes' Regulae and his method of analysis in the Meditations, and six articles which indicate the diversity of scholarly opinion on the topic of method in Descartes' philosopy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY
Letter of Dedication
Preface to the Reader
Synopsis of the Six Following Meditations
Meditation I
Meditation II
Meditation III
Meditation IV
Meditation V
Meditation VI
EXCERPT FROM REPLIES TO OBJECTIONS II
Descartes' use of "Demonstration" and "Deduction" (D. Clarke)
A Discourse on Descartes' Method (J. Hintikka)
A Point of Order: Analysis, Synthesis, and Descartes' "Principles" (D. Garber & L. Cohen)
Professor Cottingham and Descartes' Methods of Analysis and Synthesis (S. Tweyman)
Analysis in the "Meditations": The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas (E. M. Curley)
The Ontological Proof Within the Order of Reasons (G. Moyal)
Selected Bibliography
Selected Index

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