Descartes's Meditations by Catherine Wilson
In this introduction to a classic philosophical text, Catherine Wilson examines the arguments of Descartes' famous Meditations, the book which launched modern philosophy. Drawing on the reinterpretations of Descartes' thought of the past twenty-five years, she shows how Descartes constructs a theory of the mind, the body, nature, and God from a premise of radical uncertainty. She discusses in detail the historical context of Descartes' writings and their relationship to early modern science, and at the same time she introduces concepts and problems that define the philosophical enterprise as it is understood today. Following closely the text of the Meditations and meant to be read alongside them, this survey is accessible to readers with no previous background in philosophy. It is well-suited to university-level courses on Descartes, but can also be read with profit by students in other disciplines.Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney, Catherine Wilson, University of York Stephen Gaukroger was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His publications include Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography
(1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002), The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), Objectivity (2012), Le Monde en images (2015), and The Natural
and the Human (2016). Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She has written extensively on visual experience in scientific and aesthetic contexts and on Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She is the author of The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1650-1720, recently
reprinted by Princeton University Press, Descartes' Meditations: A New Introduction (2003). and, most recently, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (2008). With Desmond Clarke, she edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2011)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521007665 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521007666 |
| Title | Descartes's Meditations |
| Author | Catherine Wilson |
| Series | Cambridge Introductions To Key Philosophical Texts |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2003-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
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