Descartes's Meditations

Vere Chappell is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. He is editor and co-author of the Cambridge Companion to Locke, and the co-author of Twenty-Five Years of Descartes Scholarship.

• Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Note on the Reference Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 The First Meditation Chapter 5 The Cogito and Its Importance Chapter 6 Descartes on His Essence Chapter 7 Descartes' Cosmological Argument Chapter 8 Descartes' Problematic Casual Principle of Ideas Chapter 9 Will and the Theory of Judgment Chapter 10 Epistemic Appraisal and the Cartesian Circle Chapter 11 Descartes' Ontological Argument Chapter 12 Descartes: The Epistemological Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness Chapter 13 Descartes' Sixth Meditation: The External World, 'Nature' and Human Nature Chapter 14 Truth and Stability in Descartes' Meditations Chapter 15 References Chapter 16 Bibliography Chapter 17 Index of Passages Chapter 18 About the Authors

Provides an excellent introduction. . . . This book will be as useful to beginners as to seasoned academics because it brings together eleven articles that are both clear and profound. . . . The organization of the book is both simple and efficient, and the brief introduction and the bibliography are well done.