Authors: Rene Descartes, Donald A. Cress, Donald A. (Translator) Cress, Donald A. Cress (Translator), Donald Cress
ISBN-13: 9780872204201, ISBN-10: 0872204200
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: 4th Edition
This collection includes essays by; William T. Bluhm, Lou Massa, Thomas Payel, John F. Post, Stephen Toulmin and David Weissman.
Contains English translations of Descartes' 1637 treatise and a subsequent development of the ideas contained in it, , first published in 1641. Includes a selected bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
Preface | ||
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1 | Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences | 3 |
2 | Meditations on First Philosophy | 49 |
Essay 1 | Introduction | 111 |
Essay 2 | Descartes in His Time | 121 |
Essay 3 | Metaphysics | 147 |
Essay 4 | Epistemology | 236 |
Essay 5 | Physics and Mathematics | 272 |
Essay 6 | Political Theory and Ethics | 306 |
Essay 7 | Psychoanalysis | 330 |
Essay 8 | Literature and the Arts | 349 |
Essay 9 | Descartes in Our Time | 371 |