Separate chapters are devoted to Descartes' life and the intellectual climate of his times; the Cartesian method; the reconstruction of knowledge from self to God and to the external world; Descartes' theory of the material universe; his account of mind and body; and his psychology and theory of the will and passions.
While doing justice to the complexities of Descartes' thought, the book presupposes no philosophical training, and all technical philosophical notions are explained in such a way as to be intelligible to the first-year student or general reader.
Abbreviations.
1. Descartes' Life and Times:.
Descartes' Generation: 'Science' and 'Philosophy' in the Seventeenth Century.
Scholasticism.
Descartes' Early Years.
Descartes' Later Years: The Major Publications.
2. The Cartesian Method:.
Knowledge and Intuition.
The Role of Doubt in Descartes' Philosophy.
First Principles.
3. From Self to God to Knowledge of the World:.
The Trademark Argument.
Coda: The Trademark Argument, Second Version.
The Ontological Argument.
The Avoidance of Error.
The Cartesian Circle.
The Role of God.
4. The Material Universe:.
Our Knowledge of the World: The Intellect and the Senses.
Extended Substance.
Science, Mathematics and Mechanical Models.
Science and Religion.
5. Cartesian Man:.
Men, Machines and Animals.
Res Cogitans.
Cartesian Dualism and its Problems.
Sensation and Imagination.
Cartesian 'Trialism'.
6. The Human Condition:.
Our Perception of the World and What it is Really Like.
Innate Ideas.
Freedom and Reason.
The Good Life.
Appendix: Descartes' Dreams.
References.
Index.
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