Essays on the philosophy and science of René Descartes / edited by Stephen Voss.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

xvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

In English, with some essays translated from French

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Dillons

Certainty : psychological, moral, and metaphysical / Edwin Curley -- The cogito : privileged truth or exemplary truth? / Michelle Beyssade -- The soul according to Descartes / Michel Henry -- Generosity and phenomenology : remarks on Michel Henry's interpretation of the Cartesian cogito / Jean-Luc Marion -- Did Caterus misunderstand Descartes's ontological proof? / Willis Doney -- On the idea of God : incomprehensibility or incompatibilities? / Jean-Marie Beyssade -- The role of the intellect in Descartes's case for the incorporeity of the mind / Marleen Rozemond -- Mind-body interaction in Descartes / Stephen I. Wagner -- Simplicity and the seat of the soul / Stephen Voss -- Ingenium, memory art, and the unity of imaginative knowing in the early Descartes / Dennis L. Sepper -- Descartes on the perception of primary qualities / Margaret D. Wilson

Language and machine in the philosophy of Descartes / Jean-Pierre Séris -- Whatever should we do with the Cartesian method? : reclaiming Descartes for the history of science / John A. Schuster -- Method, discourse, and the act of knowing / Evert van Leeuwen -- From metaphysics to physics / Geneviève Rodis-Lewis -- Reason, nature, and God in Descartes / Gary Hatfield -- Descartes and experiment in the Discourse and Essays / Daniel Garber -- Descartes's physics and Descartes's mechanics : chicken and egg? / Alan Gabbey -- The heart and blood : Descartes, Plemp and Harvey / Marjorie Grene.

Includes bibliographic references and index