The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations

David Cunning is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations (2010) and Margaret Cavendish (forthcoming).

• Introduction David Cunning; 1. The methodology of the Meditations: tradition and innovation Christia Mercer; 2. The First Meditation: skeptical doubt and certainty Charles Larmore; 3. The First Meditation: divine omnipotence, necessary truths and the possibility of radical deception David Cunning; 4. The Second Meditation and the nature of the human mind Lilli Alanen; 5. The Second Meditation: unimaginable bodies and insensible minds Katherine J. Morris; 6. The Third Meditation: causal arguments for God's existence Lawrence Nolan; 7. The Third Meditation on objective being: representation and intentional content Amy Schmitter; 8. The Fourth Meditation: Descartes's theodicy avant la lettre Thomas M. Lennon; 9. The Fourth Meditation: Descartes and libertarian freedom Cecilia Wee; 10. The Fifth Meditation: Descartes' doctrine of true and immutable natures Tad M. Schmaltz; 11. The Fifth Meditation: externality and true and immutable natures Olli Koistinen; 12. The Sixth Meditation: Descartes and the embodied self Deborah Brown; 13. Sensory perception of bodies: Meditation 6.5 Alison Simmons; 14. Descartes's dualism and its relation to Spinoza's metaphysics Alan Nelson; 15. The Meditations and Descartes' considered conception of God Annette Baier.

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