11. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes’ Meditations?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Chronology XIII
5. General Bibliography XV
6. 1. The Structure of Descartes’ Meditations 1
7. 2. The Naive Narrator: Meditation in Descartes’ Meditations 21
8. 3. The Senses and the Fleshless Eye: The Meditations as Cognitive Exercises 45
9. 4. Semel in vita: The Scientific Background to Descartes’ Meditations 81
10. 5. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Doubt 117
11. 6. Descartes and the Problem of Other Minds 141
12. 7. Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas 153
13. 8. The Theory of Ideas 177
14. 9. The Second Meditation and the Essence of the Mind 199
15. 10. Meaning and Objective Being: Descartes and His Sources 223
16. 11. Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes’ Meditations? 243
17. 12. On the Complementarity of Meditations III and V: From the “General Rule” of Evidence to “Certain Science” 271
18. 13. The Essential Incoherence of Descartes’ Definition of Divinity 297
19. 14. Can I Be the Cause of My Idea of the World? (Descartes on the Infinite and Indefinite) 339
20. 15. The Idea of the True God in Descartes 359
21. 16. Confused and Obscure Ideas of Sense 389
22. 17. Will and the Theory of Judgment 405
23. 18. Objectum Purae Matheseos: Mathematical Construction and the Passage from Essence to Existence 435
24. 19. The Status of Necessity and Impossibility in Descartes 459
25. 20. Descartes: “All Things Which I Conceive Clearly and Distinctly in Corporeal Objects Are in Them” 473
26. 21. Why Was Descartes a Foundationalist? 491
27. 22. Cartesian Passions and the Union of Mind and Body 513
28. Contributors 535