RENE DESCARTES (1596 - 1650)

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

• Descartes: Philosophie Naturelle, Philosophie de l’Esprit, University of Provence Aix-Marseille, December 6-9, 2007

• Descartes and Contemporary Philosophy, Society for the Advancement of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, May 20-23, 2007

• Mind and Science in Descartes, Philosophy Programme, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, February 13, 2004

COURSES

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • The Correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes.  Ed. and trans. Lisa Shapiro.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.

  • Philosophical Essays and Correspondence.  Ed. Roger Ariew.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000.

  • The Meditations, and Other Metaphysical Writings.  Ed. Desmond M. Clarke.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.

  • The Princess and the Philosopher: Letters of Elisabeth of the Palatine to Rene Descartes.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

  • A Discourse on Method, Meditations, and Principles.  Ed. John Veitch.  New York: Everyman, 1994.

  • Philosophical Writings.  3 Vols.  Ed. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1985-1991.

    • Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988. 

  • Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.  4th Ed.  Ed. Donald A. Cress.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.

  • The Essential Descartes.  Ed. Margaret D. Wilson.  New York: Mentor, 1969.

  • Correspondance.  8 Vols.  Ed. Charles Adam and Gerard Milhaud.  Paris: PUF, 1936-1963.

  • Philosophical Works.  2 Vols.  Trans. E. S. Haldance and G. R. T. Ross.  Cambridge: CUP, 1931.  Rpt. 1967.

  • Oeuvres.  12 Vols.  Ed. Charles Adam and Paul tannery.  Paris: Cerf, 1897-1913.

• Selected Individual Writings:

  • Les Passions de l’Ame.  Paris: Henry Le Gras, 1649.

    • The Passions of the Soul.  Trans. Stephen H. Voss.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1989.

    • "Passions of the Soul."  Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  218-238.

  • Notae in Programma Quoddam.  1648.

    • "Comments on a Certain Broadsheet."  Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  213-217.

  • Principia Philosophiae.  1644.

    • "Principles of Philosophy." Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  160-212.

    • Principles of Philosophy.  Trans. V. R. Miller and R. P. Miller.  Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983.

  • Meditationes de Prima Philosophia.  1641.

    • "Meditations on First Philosophy."  Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  73-122.

    • Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies.  Trans. John Cottingham.  Cambridge: CUP, 1986.

  • Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences.  1637.

    • "Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason ands Seeking the Truth in the Sciences."  Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  20-56.

  • La Dioptrique.  1637.

    • "Optics."  Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  57-72

  • "La Géométrie."  1637.

    • "Geometry." 

  • "La Météores."  1637.

    • "Meteorology." 

  • Le Monde.  1633.

    • "The World." 

  • Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii.  1627-1628.

    • "Rules for the Direction of Our Native Intelligence."  Selected Philosophical Writings.  Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch.  Cambridge: CUP, 1988.  1-19.

On-Line:

• Archives:

  • Descartes @ Carl Mickelsen's Readings in Modern Philosophy

  • Descartes @ Great Books Archive

• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Passions of the Soul (1649):

    • Patrica Easton Version

  • Principles of Philosophy (1644):

    • Veitch Version

  • Meditations (1641):

    • Marxists.Org Version

    • Mickelsen Version

  • Discourse on the Method (1637):

    • Literature.Org Version

    • Marxists.Org Version

    • Mickelsen Translation

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Bordo, Susan, ed.  Feminist Interpretations of Descartes.  University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1999.

  • Cottingham, John, ed.  Descartes.  Oxford: OUP, 1998.

  • Cottingham, John, ed.  Reason, Will and Sensation: Studies in Descartes' Metaphysics.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.

  • Cottingham, John, ed.  Cambridge Companion to Descartes.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992.

  • Doney, Willis, ed.  Descartes: a Collection of Critical Essays.  Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

  • Gaukroger, Stephen, ed.  Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

  • Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg, ed.  Essays on Descartes' Meditations.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1986.

  • Schmaltz, Tad, ed.  Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe.  London: Routledge, 2005.

  • Weissman, David, ed.  Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.

• Selected Individual Works:
  • Aczel, Amir D.  Descartes’ Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe.  Broadway, 2005.
  • Aldrich, Virgil C.  "Descartes' Method of Doubt."  Philosophy of Science 4 (1937): .
  • Beck, L. J.  The Method of Descartes: a Study of the Regulae.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1952.
  • Bicknell, Jeanette.  "Descartes's Rhetoric: Roads, Foundations, and Difficulties in the Method."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 36.1 (2003): 22-38.
  • Blom, John.  Descartes: his Moral Philosophy and Psychology.  New York: New York UP, 1973.
  • Broughton, Janet.  Descartes' Method of Doubt.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.
  • Brown, Deborah J.  Descartes and the Passionate Mind.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
  • Caton, Hiram.  The Origin of Subjectivity: an Essay on Descartes.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1973.

  • Chappell, Vere, ed.  Descartes's Meditations: Critical Essays.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.

  • Clarke, Desmond M.  Descartes: a Biography.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

  • Clemenson, David.  Descartes' Theory of Ideas.  London: Continuum, 2007.

  • Cottingham, John.  Descartes.  London: Routledge, 1999.

  • Fancher, R. E.  "Rene Descartes and the Foundations of Modern Psychology."  Pioneers of Psychology.  New York: Norton, 1979.  3rd Ed. 1996.  1-33.

  • Garber, Daniel.  Descartes' Metaphysical Physics.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
  • Gaukroger, Stephen.  Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2002.
  • Gaukroger, Stephen.  Descartes: an Intellectual Biography.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.
  • Gibson, A. Boyce.  The Philosophy of Descartes.  London: Methuen, 1932.
  • Grayling, A. C.  Descartes: the Life of Rene Descartes and its Place in his Times.  New York: Free Press, 2005.
  • Groarke, Leo.  “Descartes' First Meditation: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 22.2 (1984): .
  • Gueroult, Martial.  Descartes' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons.  2 Vols.  Trans. Roger Ariew.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.

  • Hatfield, Gary.  Routledge GuideBook to Descartes and the Meditations.  London: Routledge, 2002.

  • Kambouchner, Denis.  Les Méditations métaphysiques de Descartes.  Paris: PUF, 2005.

  • Keeling, S. V.  Descartes.  London: Ernest Benn, 1934.

  • Kenny, Anthony.  Descartes: a Study of his Philosophy.  New York: Random House, 1968  Rpt. St. Augustine Press, 2000.

  • Menn, Stephen.  Descartes and Augustine. 
  • Morris, John.  "Descartes' Natural Light."  Journal of the History of Philosophy 11 (1973): .
  • Prado, C. G.  Descartes and Foucault: a Contrastive Introduction to Philosophy.  Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1992.
  • Rée, Jonathan.  "Descartes' Comedy."  Philosophical Tales: an Essay in Philosophy and Literature.  London: Methuen, 1987.  5-30.

  • Rodis-Lewis, Geneviève.  Descartes: Biographie.  Calmann-Lévy, 1995.

    • Descartes: his Life and Thought.  Trans. Jane Marie Todd.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1998.

  • Roth, Leon.  Descartes' Discourse on the Method.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1937.

  • Rozemond, Marleen.  Descartes's Dualism.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998.

  • Sarkar, Husain.  Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

  • Sedgwick, Peter.  "Descartes, Knowledge and Certainty."  Descartes to Derrida: an Introduction to European Philosophy.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.  3-11.

  • Smith, Norman Kemp.  New Studies in the Philosophy of Descartes: Descartes as Pioneer.  London: Macmillan, 1952.

  • Sorell, Tom.  Descartes: a Very Short Introduction.  Oxford: OUP, 2000.

  • Watson, Richard.  Cogito, Ergo Sum: the Life of Rene Descartes.  David R. Godine, 2002.

  • West, David.  "From Modernity to Enlightenment."  An Introduction to Continental Philosophy.  Cambridge: Polity, 1996.  7-16.

  • Wilson, Catherine.  Descartes's Meditations: an Introduction.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

  • Williams, Bernard.  Descartes: the Project of Pure Enquiry.  2nd Ed.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.

  • Williams, Caroline.  "Descartes and the Birth of the Modern Cogito.  Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject.  London: Athlone, 2001.  14-18.

  • Wilson, Margaret.  Descartes.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.

On-Line:

• Burnham, Douglas, and James Fieser: Descartes (Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Catholic Encyclopaedia: Descartes

• Cunning, David: Descartes' Modal Metaphysics (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Gottlieb, Anthony: Think Again: What Did Descartes Really Know? New Yorker November 20, 2006

• History of Maths Archive: Descartes

• Lokhorst, Gert-Jan: Descartes and the Pineal Gland (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Newman, Lex: Descartes' Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Nolan, Lawrence: Descartes' Ontological Argument (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Pessin, Andrew: Descartes's Theory of Ideas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Radical Academy: The Philosophy of René Descartes

• Rutherford, Donald: Descartes' Ethics (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Slowik, Edward: Descartes' Physics (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Smith, Kurt: Descartes' Life and Works (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: René Descartes

WWW GATEWAYS

• Kemmerling, Garth: Descartes

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