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Material falsity and error in Descartes' Meditations
- Title
- Material falsity and error in Descartes' Meditations / Cecilia Wee.
- Author
- Wee, Cecilia, 1962-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- x, 171 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Descartes's account of material falsity constitutes one of the most difficult and challenging areas in his work. Yet understanding the account is crucial to understanding his views on such important issues as representation, truth, falsehood and human error. This book is a sustained exploration of material falsity and its importance to Descartes's overall philosophy." "Cecilia Wee here 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. This is the first book to focus closely on Descartes's notion of material falsity, and it shows how his account of material falsity - and correspondingly his account of crucial notions such as truth, falsehood and error - evolves according to epistemic advances in the Meditations. The book also offers important new insights on the crucial role of Descartes's Third Meditation discussion of material falsity in advancing many subsequent arguments in the Meditations."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.
- Contents
- An introduction to Descartes's materially false ideas -- 'Static' interpretations of materially false ideas : a survey -- A 'dynamic' interpretation of materially false ideas -- The metaphysical status of material falsity (and of error) -- Falsehood, error, and ethics.
- ISBN
- 0415349842
- 9780415349840
- 9780203648445
- 0203648447
- LCCN
- 2005026189
- 9780415349840
- OCLC
- ocm62084205
- 62084205
- SCSB-9487572
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library