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Author: Margaret Dauler Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-05-20
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1134963521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most significant studies of Descartes in recent times. It concentrates on the Meditations to show Descartes' philosophy in the context of his overall scientific objectives, not all of them fully explicit in the texts.
Author: Clarence A. Bonnen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1134738897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRene Descartes credited his success in philosophy, mathematics, and physics to the discovery of a universal method of inquiry, but he provided no systematic description of his method. Descartes and Method carefully examines Descartes' scattered remarks on his application and puts forward a systematic account of his method with particular attention to the role it plays in the Meditations. Daniel E. Flage and Clarence A. Bonnen boldly and convincingly argue against the orthodox conception that Descartes had no method. Through a rigorous and thorough examination, Flage and Bonnen unearth and explain the role of the method of analysis in the Meditations. Descartes and Method is a ground-breaking book that is sure to make a considerable impact on the philosophy community. Anyone wishing to gain a new understanding of Descartes's Meditations should read this book.
Author: Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0520907833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world. There are essays on the genre of meditational writing, on the implications of the opening cathartic section of the book on Descartes' theory of perception and his use of skeptical arguments; essays on the theory of ideas and their role of Descartes' reconstructive analytic method; essays on the proofs for the existence of God, on the role of the will in the formation and malformation of judgments; and the essays on the foundations of the science of extension and on Descartes' account of the union of mind and body. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987. The essays in this volume form a commentary on Descartes' Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inqui
Author: Margaret Dauler Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1136291474
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. In this volume, the author offers what she believes to be a somewhat different over-all reading of Descartes’ philosophy, and particularly of the Meditations, from other commentators—especially those written in English.
Author: C. Sasaki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9401712255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering both the history of mathematics and of philosophy, Descartes's Mathematical Thought reconstructs the intellectual career of Descartes most comprehensively and originally in a global perspective including the history of early modern China and Japan. Especially, it shows what the concept of "mathesis universalis" meant before and during the period of Descartes and how it influenced the young Descartes. In fact, it was the most fundamental mathematical discipline during the seventeenth century, and for Descartes a key notion which may have led to his novel mathematics of algebraic analysis.
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1998-03-13
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780872204225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the 1979 First Edition and includes pages references to the critical edition for ease of comparison.
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1999-06-15
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1603844481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
Author: René Descartes
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 1993-10-01
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 1603844813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining its clear and accessible style.
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521423502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes I and II provide a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. Volume III contains 207 of Descartes' letters, over half of which have not been translated into English before. It incorporates, in its entirety, Anthony Kenny's celebrated translation of selected philosophical letters, first published in 1970. In conjunction with Volumes I and II it is designed to meet the widespread demand for a comprehensive, accurate and authoritative edition of Descartes' philosophical writings in clear and readable modern English.
