The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1984
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521288071

A completely new translation of the works of Descartes is intended to replace the Haldane and Ross edition, first published in 1911. All material from that edition is translated here, with a number of other texts crucial for understanding Cartesian philosophy.

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1984
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521423502

Volumes I and II provide a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. Volume III contains 207 of Descartes' letters, over half of which have not been translated into English before. It incorporates, in its entirety, Anthony Kenny's celebrated translation of selected philosophical letters, first published in 1970. In conjunction with Volumes I and II it is designed to meet the widespread demand for a comprehensive, accurate and authoritative edition of Descartes' philosophical writings in clear and readable modern English.

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1
Author: René Descartes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1985
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

A completely new translation of the works of Descartes is intended to replace the Haldane and Ross edition, first published in 1911. All material from that edition is translated here, with a number of other texts crucial for understanding Cartesian philosophy.

Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings

Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1988-02-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 110726832X

Based on the new and much acclaimed two-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, Objectives and Replies, Comments on a Broadsheet, and Passions of the Soul. In clear, readable, modern English, with a full text and running references to the standard Franco-Latin edition of Descartes, this book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes.

Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence

Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence
Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2000-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1603840176

A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.

The Cambridge Companion to Descartes

The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
Author: John Cottingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1992-09-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139824910

Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the intellectual background to and reception of his work, are treated at length. At the core of the volume are a group of chapters on his metaphysics: the celebrated 'Cogito' argument, the proofs of God's existence, the 'Cartesian circle' and the dualistic theory of the mind and its relation to his theological and scientific views. Other chapters cover the philosophical implications of his work in algebra, his place in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, the structure of his physics, and his work on physiology and psychology.

The Essential Peirce, Volume 1 (1867–1893)

The Essential Peirce, Volume 1 (1867–1893)
Author: Nathan Houser
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1992-11-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253007828

" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books "The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome Essential Peirce; they are by Peirce's standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness." —London Review of Books A convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This first volume presents twenty-five key texts from the first quarter century of his writing, with a clear introduction and informative headnotes. Volume 2 will highlight the development of Peirce's system of signs and his mature pragmatism.

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Author: René Descartes
Publisher: Livraria Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1912-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

"The effect of this man on his age and the new age cannot be imagined broadly enough... René Descartes is indeed the true beginner of modern philosophy, insofar as it makes thinking the principle. "- Hegel "Descartes was the first to bring to light the idea of a transcendental science, which is to contain a system of knowledge of the conditions of possibility of all knowledge." - Kant "Descartes is rightly considered the father of modern philosophy" - Schopenhauer A new 2024 translation directly from the original manuscripts into English of Descartes' famous work "Discourse on Method to lead one's reason well and to seek the truth in sciences plus Dioptric, Meteors and Geometry" usually shortened to merely "Discourse on the Method". This edition contains a new introduction and afterword from the translator, as well as a timeline of Descartes' life and summaries of each of his works. This work is a collection of three essays that discuss the methods of reasoning and investigation that Descartes used to arrive at his conclusions. It is significant because it established the idea of doubt and skepticism as a starting point for knowledge, and is a foundational text for critical thinking. This work helped found the method of doubt used in the Scientific method.