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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Note on the References and Abbreviations | |
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Meditation I and the Method of Doubt | |
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Descartes's Goal | |
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The Cartesian Doubt | |
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Is The Cartesian Doubt Self-Refuting? | |
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The Deceptiveness of the Senses | |
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The Dream Argument | |
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The Deceiver Argument | |
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Meditation II: The Cogito and the Self | |
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Descartes's "I Am Thinking, Therefore I Exist" | |
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The Certainty of One's Own Thoughts | |
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A Problem for the Cogito | |
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The Substance Theory | |
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A Reconstruction of the Cogito Based on the Substance Theory | |
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Critical Discussion of the Reconstructed Cogito | |
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The Substance Theory and the Argument from Change | |
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The Corollary | |
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The Assumption That Thoughts Are Properties | |
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The Inference to "I Exist" | |
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A Defense of the Unreconstructed Cogito | |
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Does the Unreconstructed Cogito Require an Additional Premise? | |
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Descartes's Conception of the Self | |
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Cartesian Dualism | |
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Meditation III: The Criterion of Truth and the Existence of God | |
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Descartes's Criterion of Truth | |
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The Project of Meditation III | |
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From the Idea of God to God | |
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The Nature of Ideas | |
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Objective Reality and Formal Reality | |
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The Core Argument | |
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The Central Argument of Meditation III: The Subargument, the Core Argument, and the Sequel | |
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Criticisms of Descartes's Central Argument in Meditation III | |
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The Subargument | |
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The Precontainment Prindple | |
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Degrees of Reality | |
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Justifying the Causal Maxim | |
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The Problem of the Cartesian Circle | |
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The Restriction of the Doubt to Past Clear and Distinct Perceptions Defense | |
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The General Rule Defense | |
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The Radical Doubt of Reason and the Creation of the Eternal Truths | |
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The Validation of Reason | |
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A Final Criticism of the Core Argument | |
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Meditation IV: Error, Freedom, and Evil | |
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The Issues of the Fourth Meditation | |
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Error and the Will | |
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Some Possible Objections | |
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Assenting and Deciding to Believe | |
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Irresistibility and Freedom | |
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The Coherence of Cartesian Freedom | |
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Descartes's Troubling Letter to Mesland | |
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Error and Evil | |
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The Problem of Evil | |
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Cartesian Theodicy | |
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Some Critical Reflections | |
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Meditation V: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God | |
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Descartes's Ontological Argument | |
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Critique of the Ontological Argument | |
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Gaunilo's Objection | |
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Kant's Objection | |
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Further Consideration of Kant's Objection | |
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Caterus�s Objection | |
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Some Implications for Descartes's System | |
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Meditation VI: Dualism and the Material World | |
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The Scope of Meditation VI | |
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Descartes's Proof of the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body | |
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Descartes's Proof of the Material World | |
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Descartes on the Nature of the Material World | |
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Primary and Secondary Qualities | |
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Matter, Space, and Solidity | |
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Bodies as Substances versus Bodies as Modes of Substance | |
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Dualism and the Problem of Interaction | |
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An Assessment of Cartesian Dualism | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |