Ebook: The Blackwell guide to Descartes' Meditations

Introduction / Stephen Gaukroger -- The meditations and the objections and replies / Roger Ariew -- Descartes and scepticism / Charles Larmore -- The cogito and foundations of knowledge / Edwin Curley -- The nature of the mind / Marleen Rozemond -- The doctrine of substance / Jorge Secada -- The doctrine of ideas / Steven Nadler -- Proofs for the existence of God / Lawrence Nolan and Alan Nelson -- The Cartesian circle / Gary Hatfield -- Judgement and will / Michael Della Rocca -- Descartes' proof of the existence of matter / Desmond M. Clarke -- The mind-body relation / John Cottingham -- Seventeenth-century responses to the meditations / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Appendix : Descartes' Six metaphysical meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680).;Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux's famous early translation of the Meditations. Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context. Touches on all of the major themes of the Meditations, including the mind-body relation, the nature of the mind, and the existence of the material world.