The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations

References to Descartes’ Works.

Introduction.

Stephen Gaukroger.

1. The Meditations and the Objections and Replies: Roger Ariew (University of South Florida, Tampa).

2. Descartes and skepticism: Charles Larmore (University of Chicago).

3. The cogito and foundations of knowledge: Edwin Curley (University of Michigan).

4. The nature of the mind: Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto).

5. The doctrine of substance: Jorge Secada (University of Virginia).

6. The doctrine of ideas: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin).

7. Proofs for the existence of God: Lawrence Nolan (California State University) and Alan Nelson (University of California – Irvine).

8. The Cartesian circle: Gary Hatfield (University of Pennsylvania).

9. Judgement and will: Michael Della Rocca (Yale University).

10. Descartes’ proof of the existence of matter: Desmond Clarke (University College Cork).

11. The mind-body relation: John Cottingham (Reading University).

12. Seventeenth-century responses to the Meditations: Tad Schmaltz (Duke University).

Appendix: Descartes’ Metaphysical Meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680).

References.

Index