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Author:   Margaret Dauler Wilson ,  Ted Honderich
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138135802

ISBN 10:   1138135801
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   08 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface A Note on Descartes’s Life and Works I General Doubt 1 Cartesian doubt and Cartesian revolution 2 The ‘I’ of the Meditations 3 Assumptions and aims of methodic doubt 4 Attacking the foundations: ‘these familiar things’ 5 Attacking the foundations: ‘simple and universal things’ 6 The Dreaming Argument: a reconstruction 7 The opinion of a God who can do anything 8 ‘Principles’ 9 Real doubts II Knowledge of Self and Bodies 1 The concerns of Meditation II 2 Ego existo 3 But what then am I? 4 This wax 5 Intellectual inspection 6 Mind ‘better known’ than body III Some Perspectives on the Third Meditation 1 Introduction 2 Material falsity and objective reality 3 A God who can do anything 14 Circularity 5 Physics and the eternal truths: a speculation 6 The proof of an all-perfect God IV Judgment, Ideas and Thought 1 Regulating assent 2 Consciousness V True and Immutable Natures 1 Res extensa 2 Immutable natures and fictitious ideas: a critique 3 Immutable natures and the ontological argument VI Mind, Body and Things Outside Us 1 Introduction 2 Cartesian dualism 3 The Epistemological Argument 4 Sensation and the Epistemological Argument 5 The evidence of the senses 6 The body which by a certain special right I call mine

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Margaret Dauler Wilson, Series Editor-Ted Honderich

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