Cartesian Reflections: Essays on Descartes's Philosophy

by John Cottingham

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian mind-body dualism that is so often attacked is only a part of Descartes's account of what it is to be a thinking,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226970
• ISBN13: 9780199226979
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"