Title Descartes : critical and interpretive essays / edited by Michael Hooker.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1978.
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 Monograph Collection  B1875 .D38 1978  AVAILABLE
Description viii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312).
Note Includes indexes.
Contents The geometrical presentation of Descartes's A priori proof / Willis Doney -- Descartes on the consistency of reason / Harry G. Frankfurt -- Certainty and cartesian method / Jeffry Tlumak -- A discourse on Descartes's method / Jaakko Hintikka -- Doubt, reason, and cartesian therapy / Mike Marlies -- Science and certainty in Descartes / Daniel Garber -- Limitations of the mechanical model in the cartesian conception of the organism / Geneviéve Rodis-Lewis -- Descartes's denial of mind-body identity / Michael Hooker -- Descartes's "synthetic" treatment of the real distinction between mind and body / Alan Donagan -- Cartesian dualism / Margaret D. Wilson -- Descartes's correspondence with Elizabeth: conceiving both the union and distinction of mind and body / Ruth Mattern -- Dualism in Descartes: the logical ground / Fred Sommers -- Can I know that I am not dreaming? / David Blumenfeld and Jean Beer Blumenfeld.
Descartes's dream argument / George Nakhnikian -- The representational character of ideas and the problem of the external world / Arthur Danto -- Some recent work on Descartes: a bibliography / Willis Doney.
Subject(s) Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Alternate Author Hooker, Michael.