1st Edition

Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

By Cecilia Wee Copyright 2006
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

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 shows how Descartes’s account of material falsity – and correspondingly his account of crucial... Read more

1. An Introduction to Descartes’s Materially False Ideas   2. ‘Static’ Interpretations of Materially False Ideas – A Survey  3. A ‘Dynamic’ Interpretation of Materially False Ideas   4. The Metaphysical Status of Material Falsity (and of Error)  5. Falsehood, Error and Ethics   6. Conclusion

Biography

Cecilia Wee