Descartes : an intellectual biography / by Gaukroger, Stephen

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes : a guide for the perplexed / by Skirry, Justin

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes. by Gombay, Andre

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes : a very short introduction / by Sorell, Tom

Table of Contents: “…-- The theologians and the God of physics -- Ideas -- The mind -- Body -- The physics made public -- The 'other science' -- Last days -- Descartes's ghost -- Further readings -- Index.…”
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Descartes The Renewal of Philosophy. by Nadler, Steven

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René Descartes : a Latin-English Edition. by Cottingham, John

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical introduction; The shaping of a philosopher; The development of descartes's methodology; The core of descartes's philosophy; The cartesian system and the human being; The cartesian legacy; Editorial introduction; Meditationes de prima philosophiaMeditations on First Philosophy; [Epistola dedicatoria; [Dedicatory letter to the Sorbonne; Praefatio ad lectorem; Preface to the reader 1; Synopsissex sequentium Meditationum; Synopsis of the following six Meditations; MEDITATIONES DE PRIMA PHILOSOPHIA; Meditatio prima; De iis quae in dubium revocari possunt17.…”
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Receptions of Descartes. by Schmaltz, Tad M.

Table of Contents: “…11 Mechanism, skepticism, and witchcraft12 Descartes among the British; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Starting with Descartes / by Prado, C. G.

Table of Contents: “…Descartes and his project -- The first meditation: methodological doubt -- The second meditation: the cogito -- The third meditation: the causal argument for god's existence -- A brief interlude -- The fourth meditation: explaining the possibility of error -- The fifth meditation: the ontological argument for god's existence -- The sixth meditation: the world's existence.…”
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Descartes and the ingenium : the embodied soul in Cartesianism /

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations and Diagrams -- Abbreviations and Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Descartes Re-imagined: Ingenuity before and beyond Dualism -- Part 1 Rethinking the Ingenium in the Cartesian Corpus: Method, Mathematics, Medicine -- Chapter 1 Methodical Invention: The Cartesian Ingenium at Work -- Chapter 2 Descartes and Logic: Perfecting the Ingenium -- Chapter 3 Enumeratio in Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Ingenium, Phantasia and Mathematics in Descartes's Regulae ad directionem ingenii…”
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Descartes' cogito : saved from the great shipwreck / by Sarkar, Husain

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes and the Enlightenment / by Schouls, Peter A.

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- I: Escape from Bondage -- II: Reason and Free Will -- III: Descartes and the Enlightenment -- IV: Autonomy and Spontaneity -- V: Freedom, Mastery, and Progress -- VI: Progress and Enlightenment -- VII: Self-Mastery -- VIII: Mastery, Method, and Enlightenment -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W…”
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Essays on Descartes / by Hoffman, Paul, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The unity of Descartes's man -- Cartesian composites -- Descartes's theory of distinction -- Descartes's watch analogy -- The union and interaction of mind and body (part 1) -- Descartes and Aquinas on per se subsistence and the union of soul and body -- The union and interaction of mind and body (part 2) -- Cartesian passions and Cartesian dualism -- Passion and motion in the new mechanics -- Descartes on misrepresentation -- Direct realism, intentionality, and the objective being of ideas -- Three dualist theories of the passions -- Freedom and strength of will: Descartes and Albritton -- The passions and freedom of will.…”
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Descartes's dualism / by Rozemond, Marleen

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes' Meditations : a reader's guide / by Francks, Richard

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.…”
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Descartes embodied : reading Cartesian philosophy through Cartesian science / by Garber, Daniel, 1949-

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes's legacy : minds and meaning in early modern philosophy / by Hausman, David B.

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes and method : a search for a method in Meditations / by Flage, Daniel E., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Descartes's method; Analysis: the search for laws; Analysis: the clarification of ideas; Causation; Appendix: the rainbow; Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy; Meditation One: doubts and suppositions; Meditation Two: the beginning of the ascent; Meditation Three: reaching the peak, or variations on the existence and idea of God; Meditation Four: truth and falsity: reflections from the summit; Meditation Five: the beginning of the descent; Meditation Six: the world restored; Circles; Notes.…”
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Descartes' Dualism. by Baker, Gordon

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Descartes and the Resilience of Rhetoric : Varieties of Cartesian Rhetorical Theory. by Carr, Thomas M.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Descartes and Guez de Balzac: Human Eloquence Spurned; 3. …”
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Descartes's method of doubt / by Broughton, Janet, 1948-

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes' natural philosophy /

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Descartes's theory of action / by Davenport, Anne Ashley

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Descartes's changing mind / by Machamer, Peter K.

Table of Contents: “…From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance -- Descartes's early work: the rules -- The world -- The discourse on method -- God and efficient causation -- A historical preamble -- God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse -- God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism -- Causal axioms and common notions -- Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics -- God as causa sui: the high tide of Descartes's causalism -- Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony -- Epistemic teleology -- Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter -- The current debate on body-body causation -- The early Descartes -- Cartesian conservationism -- Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II -- Mature motion -- The place of our position in the current debate -- Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas -- Intuition and enumeration -- Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind -- Innate ideas -- Innateness and sensory ideas -- Innate ideas: present but swamped -- Innateness and intellectual memory -- Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures -- Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation -- Sensation -- The physical side of perception -- The mental side of perception -- How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation -- The nature of the distinction between mind and body -- The mind-body (soul-body) union -- Epistemic teleology and dualism.…”
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A Companion to Descartes. by Carriero, John Peter

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1: Life and Works; Chapter 2: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature; Chapter 3: Descartes and Augustine; Chapter 4: Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism; Part II: Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; Chapter 5: Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics; Chapter 6: Explanation as Confirmation in Descartes's Natural Philosophy; Chapter 7: Descartes and Mathematics.…”
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Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz : the concept of substance in seventeenth-century metaphysics / by Woolhouse, R. S.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editions and abbreviations; Introduction; Descartes and Substance; Spinoza and Substance; Leibniz and Substance; Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and Extended Substance; Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and the Mechanics of Extended Substance; Causation, Occasionalism and Force; Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and Thinking Substance; Extended Substance and Thinking Substance related: 'the nature of the union between body and mind'; Uncreated and Created Substance: God and the World; Bibliography; Index…”
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Descartes's changing mind / by Machamer, Peter K.

Table of Contents: “…From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance -- Descartes's early work: the rules -- The world -- The discourse on method -- God and efficient causation -- A historical preamble -- God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse -- God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism -- Causal axioms and common notions -- Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics -- God as causa sui: the high tide of Descartes's causalism -- Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony -- Epistemic teleology -- Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter -- The current debate on body-body causation -- The early Descartes -- Cartesian conservationism -- Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II -- Mature motion -- The place of our position in the current debate -- Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas -- Intuition and enumeration -- Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind -- Innate ideas -- Innateness and sensory ideas -- Innate ideas: present but swamped -- Innateness and intellectual memory -- Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures -- Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation -- Sensation -- The physical side of perception -- The mental side of perception -- How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation -- The nature of the distinction between mind and body -- The mind-body (soul-body) union -- Epistemic teleology and dualism.…”
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Descartes' temporal dualism / by Waller, Rebecca Lloyd

Table of Contents: “…Pre-cartesian approaches to time -- Time is not (and could not be) a Cartesian substance -- Descartes' temporal dualism -- Two temporal attributes that are ontologically on par -- Temporal dualism as an elegant solution.…”
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Reading Descartes Otherwise : Blind, Mad, Dreamy, and Bad / by Lee, Kyoo

Table of Contents: “…If Descartes Remains Overread and Underexplored --…”
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Descartes on innate ideas / by Boyle, Deborah A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Multiple Meanings of 'Innate Idea' -- 1.1 Ambiguities in Descartes' Idea of 'Idea' -- 1.2 The Dispositional Interpretation of Cartesian Innate Ideas -- 1.3 A Unified Account of Cartesian Innate Ideas -- 1.4 The Recollection Account -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Innate Ideas as Objects and Acts -- 2.1 The Role of the Meditator's Nature -- 2.2 Distinguishing the Innate from the Adventitious and the Factitious -- 2.3 The Clarity and Distinctness of Innate Ideas -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Role of Reflection in Perceiving Innate Ideas -- 3.1 The Reflective Account -- 3.2 Attention, Reflection, and the Interference of the Body -- 3.3 Applying the Reflective Account: Some Examples -- 3.4 Another Example: The Innate Idea of God -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Natural Light Reconsidered -- 4.1 The Natural Light, Common Notions, and Innateness -- 4.2 A Reply to an Objection -- 4.3 John Morris on the Natural Light -- 4.4 The Natural Light and the Role of the Will -- 4.5 The Metaphor of Light -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Natural Light and Its Truths -- 5.1 Perception by the Natural Light -- 5.2 Some Examples of Perception by the Natural Light -- 5.3 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Innate Ideas, Corporeal Substance, and Mathematics -- 6.1 The Innate Idea of Extension -- 6.2 Discovering the Innate Idea of Extension -- 6.3 Perceiving Ideas of Shapes -- 6.4 Perceiving Geometrical Propositions -- 6.5 Perceiving Other Mathematical Propositions -- 6.6 Descartes' Laws of Motion -- 6.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.…”
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Descartes's moral theory / by Marshall, John, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The Morality of the Discourse. 1. Descartes's Morale par Provision. 2. Descartes's Second Maxim. 3. …”
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Descartes among the Scholastics / by Ariew, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Descartes and the last Scholastics: objections and replies -- Descartes and the Scotists -- Ideas, before and after Descartes -- The Cartesian destiny of form and matter -- Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: three kinds of Corpuscularians -- Scholastics and the new astronomy on the substance of the heavens -- Descartes and the Jesuits of La Fleche: the Eucharist -- Condemnations of Cartesianism: the extension and unity of the universe -- Cartesians, Gassendists, and censorship -- The cogito in the seventeenth century.…”
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Discourse on method by Descartes, René, 1596-1650

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The Scientific Work of René Descartes : 1596-1650. by Scott, J. F.

Table of Contents: “…Conclusion. Importance of Descartes' Work in the History of Science; Appendix. …”
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The Blackwell guide to Descartes' Meditations /

Table of Contents: “…Schmaltz -- Appendix : Descartes' Six metaphysical meditations, trans. William Molyneux (1680).…”
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Descartes' system of natural philosophy / by Gaukroger, Stephen

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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The a priori in the thought of Descartes : cognition, method and science / by Palkoska, Jan

Table of Contents: “…5.3.2 Heuristic Analysis in Aristotle5.3.3 Heuristic Analysis in Renaissance Aristotelianism; 5.3.4 Some Similarities to Descartes on Analysis; 5.4. Analysis as A Priori in Descartes; 5.4.1 Culs-de-Sac; 5.4.2 A Speculative Suggestion; 5.5 Coda: Synthesis as A Posteriori in Descartes; Appendix: Abbreviations; Bibliography; General Index…”
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Descartes and the metaphysics of human nature / by Skirry, Justin

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650.…”
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Putting the horse before Descartes : my life's work on behalf of animals / by Rollin, Bernard E.

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Descartes and the puzzle of sensory representation / by De Rosa, Raffaella

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; 1. Descartes' Account of Ideas and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation; 2. …”
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Descartes' Meditations on first philosophy : an Edinburgh philosophical guide / by Brandhorst, Kurt

Subjects: “…Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Meditationes de prima philosophia.…”
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