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Explore Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy: A groundbreaking journey through radical doubt to fundamental certainty. Uncover the "Cogito," God's existence, and the mind-body distinction. Essential for understanding modern philosophy's beginnings.
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Explore Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy: A groundbreaking journey through radical doubt to fundamental certainty. Uncover the "Cogito," God's existence, and the mind-body distinction. Essential for understanding modern philosophy's beginnings.
Works Cited
"Any good introduction to Rationalism vs Empiricism?" r/askphilosophy, Reddit, n.d.
Brockbank, Brien. "Descartes and Scholasticism." Aporia, n.d.
Cunning, David, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations. Cambridge UP, 2014.
"Descartes proof of god." r/askphilosophy, Reddit, n.d.
"Descartes' Key Philosophical Writings..." r/askphilosophy, Reddit, n.d.
Descartes, René. Discourse on Method and Meditations. Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross, Dover Publications, 2003.
Descartes, René. "Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences." Marxists Internet Archive, n.d.
Descartes, René. Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies. Translated and edited by John Cottingham and Bernard Williams, Cambridge UP, 1996.
Descartes, René. René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies: A Latin–English Edition. Edited and translated with textual and philosophical introductions by John Cottingham, Cambridge UP, 2013.
"Empiricism vs. Rationalism." r/philosophy, Reddit, n.d.
"George Berkeley." Wikipedia, n.d. Accessed 24 May 2024. (Version retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George_Berkeley&oldid=1294425497).
"Bernard Williams on Descartes's audacious endeavour to prove knowledge is possible." Aeon, Aeon Media Group Ltd., n.d.
Hatfield, Gary. "René Descartes." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2023.
Hume, David. Treatise of Human Nature, Book 1. Edited by Jonathan Bennett, Early Modern Texts, 2017.
Lee, Sarah. "Aristotelianism in Medieval Philosophy." Number Analytics, 27 May 2025.
Loeb, Louis E. "Was Descartes Sincere in his Appeal to the Natural Light?" Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 3, July 1988, pp. 377-406.
Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. The Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, 1999.
Look, Brandon C. "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 24 July 2013.
Markie, Peter, and M. Folescu. "Rationalism vs. Empiricism." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021.
"PHIL 0021 - History of Modern Philosophy." Sierra College Catalog, Fall 2022.
"Principles of Philosophy." Wikipedia, n.d. Accessed 24 May 2024. (Version retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Principles_of_Philosophy&oldid=1283507600).
"Rationalism." Wikipedia, n.d. Accessed 24 May 2024. (Version retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rationalism&oldid=1292285238).
"Rules for the Direction of the Mind." Wikipedia, n.d. Accessed 24 May 2024. (Version retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rules_for_the_Direction_of_the_Mind&oldid=1292285238).
"Scholasticism." Wikipedia, n.d. Accessed 24 May 2024. (Version retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scholasticism&oldid=1292203002).
Shapiro, Lisa. "Descartes’s Passions of the Soul." Philosophy Compass, vol. 1, no. 3, 2006, pp. 268–78.
Shapiro, Lisa. "Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021.
Skirry, Justin. "René Descartes: The Mind-Body Distinction." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, n.d.
Wild, Christopher J. Descartes’ Meditative Turn: Cartesian Thought as Spiritual Practice. Stanford UP, n.d.
Williams, Bernard. Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry. Penguin, 1978.
Wyatt, Jeremy. "World Philosophy: Descartes’ Meditations and its contemporary relevance." Course description, n.d.
Yearley, Clifton K. "Discourse on Method by René Descartes." EBSCO Research Starters, 2022.