The Second Meditation and Objections to Cartesian Dualism
Early Modern Philosophy May 19, 2005 Michael Ayers
AbstractIn 1978, two books were published that became standard commentaries on Descartes's Meditations. One was Bernard Williams's Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry, the other Margaret Wilson's Descartes. This chapter starts from an issue of interpretation to which both books give some prominence, and which concerns the structure of Descartes' argument for his distinction between mind and...