Argument and persuasion in Descartes' Meditations / David Cunning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunning, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Methodology.

First philosophy.

God--Proof, Ontological.

God.

Metaphysics.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 235 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Descartes' 'Meditations on First Philosophy' has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades. David Cunning's monograph proposes a new interpretation.

Contents:

The problem of the first-person point of view

Epistemic position and the First meditation

Imagining mind and body

The idea of a Supreme Being

Truth and imprecision in the Fourth meditation

Another proof of the existence of God

Embodiment and mind-body union

The post-Meditations meditator

Problems with Descartes' method and its implementation

Philosophical inquiry and the problem of current commitments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-988969-4

0-19-938030-9

1-282-61362-6

9786612613623

0-19-977447-1

OCLC:

690106702