Descartes Books

New and Published Books

1. Debates in Modern Philosophy

   Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses

   Edited by Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo

   Series: Key Debates in the History of Philosophy

   Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Self, Reason, and Freedom

   A New Light on Descartes' Metaphysics

   By Andrea Christofidou

   Freedom and its internal relation to reason is fundamental to Descartes’ philosophy in general, and to his Meditations on First Philosophy in particular. Without freedom his entire enquiry would not get off the ground, and without understanding the rôle of freedom in his work, we could not...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
3. Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

   By Cecilia Wee

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations approaches Descartes’s Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes’s views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter. The first book to focus closely on Descartes’s notion of material falsity, it...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
4. Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion

   Descartes and Beyond

   Edited by Peter Anstey, Dana Jalobeanu

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
5. Receptions of Descartes

   Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Tad M. Schmaltz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in...

   Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge
6. Descartes

   The Project of Pure Enquiry

   By Bernard Williams

   Descartes has often been called the 'father of modern philosophy'.His attempts to find foundations for knowledge, and to reconcile the existence of the soul with the emerging science of his time, are among the most influential and widely studied in the history of philosophy. This is a classic and...

   Published March 15th 2005 by Routledge
7. Descartes' Dualism

   By Gordon Baker, Katherine Morris

   Was Descartes a Cartesian Dualist? In this controversial study, Gordon Baker and Katherine J. Morris argue that, despite the general consensus within philosophy, Descartes was neither a proponent of dualism nor guilty of the many crimes of which he has been accused by twentieth century...

   Published October 2nd 2002 by Routledge
8. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations

   By Gary Hatfield

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Rene Descartes is generally accepted as the "father of modern philosophy", and his Meditations is perhaps the most famous philosophical text ever written.In this Routledge Philosophy GuideBook, Gary Hatfield guides the reader through the text of the Meditations, providing commentary and analysis...

   Published September 18th 2002 by Routledge
9. Descartes and Method

   A Search for a Method in Meditations

   By Clarence A. Bonnen, Daniel E. Flage

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Rene Descartes credited his success in philosophy, mathematics, and physics to the discovery of a universal method of inquiry, but he provided no systematic description of his method. Descartes and Method carefully examines Descartes' scattered remarks on his application and puts forward a...

   Published May 12th 1999 by Routledge
10. The Immaterial Self

    A Defence of the Cartesian Dualist Conception of the Mind

    By John Foster

    Series: International Library of Philosophy

    Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most...

    Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge