john cottingham reason, will, and sensation studies in descartess metaphysics 1994

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Introduction: Plus una vice agendum: Cartesian Metaphysics Three and a Half Centuries On

j'ohn Cottingham

P A R T O N E : R E A S O N , H I S T O R Y , A N D M E T H O D

I . Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy Bernard Williams

2. Descartes's Modernity Tom Sorell

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3. The Sources of Descartes's Procedure of Deductive Demonstration in Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy 47

Stephen Gaukroger

P A R T T W O : R E A S O N , B E I N G , A N D T R U T H

4. Descartes's Concepts of Substance Peter Markie

5. God without Cause Carol Rovane

6. Descartes's Denial of the Autonomy of Reason Howard Wickes

7. Truth, Error, and the Order of Reasons: Descartes's Puzzling Synopsis of the Fourth Meditation

Donald A. Cress

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P A R T T H R E E : T H E W I L E

. Human Nature, Reason, and Will in the Argument of Descartes's Meditations 759

Peter Schouls

9. Descartes's Compatibilism Vere Chappll

10. Descartes's Doctrine of Freedom: Differences between the French and Latin Texts of the Fourth Meditation 191

Michelle Bg~ssude

P A R T F O U R : T H E S E N S E S A N D T H E B O D Y

r r . Descartes on Sense and 'Resemblance' Margaret D. Wilson

12. Sensory Ideas, Objective Reality, and Material Falsity 229 Lilli Alanen

x 3. The Reconfiguration of Sensory Experience 251 Ann Wilbur MacKenzie

14 Descartes: The End of Anthropolog~. Stephen Voa

Bibliography

Table of Citations from Descartes 's Morks

Index