ABSTRACT

One 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.

chapter 1|3 pages

Cartesian doubt and Cartesian revolution

chapter 2|1 pages

The ‘I’ of the Meditations

chapter 3|5 pages

Assumptions and aims of methodic doubt

chapter 6|12 pages

The Dreaming Argument: a reconstruction

chapter 7|6 pages

The opinion of a God who can do anything

chapter 8|4 pages

‘Principles’

chapter 9|7 pages

Real doubts

chapter 1|1 pages

The concerns of Meditation II

chapter 2|17 pages

Ego existo

chapter 3|5 pages

But what then am I?

chapter 4|11 pages

This wax

chapter 5|3 pages

Intellectual inspection

chapter 6|7 pages

Mind ‘better known’ than body

chapter 1|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|16 pages

Material falsity and objective reality

chapter 3|10 pages

A God who can do anything

chapter 4|4 pages

Circularity

chapter 6|2 pages

The proof of an all-perfect God

chapter 1|10 pages

Regulating assent

chapter 2|13 pages

Consciousness

chapter 1|2 pages

Res extensa

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|13 pages

The Epistemological Argument

chapter 5|2 pages

The evidence of the senses