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John Cottingham

Author of The Cambridge Companion to Descartes

31+ Works 1,237 Members 8 Reviews

About the Author

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professor Emeritus at Roehampton University, and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. His books include How to Believe and On the Meaning of Life.

Works by John Cottingham

The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (1992) — Editor — 225 copies, 2 reviews
Western Philosophy: An Anthology (1996) — Editor — 217 copies, 1 review
Descartes (1986) 181 copies, 1 review
On the Meaning of Life (2002) 67 copies
Rationalism (Paladin Books) (1984) 30 copies
A Descartes Dictionary (1993) 25 copies
Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials (1998) — Editor — 23 copies, 1 review
Why Believe? (2009) 22 copies

Associated Works

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) — Translator, some editions — 4,347 copies, 27 reviews
Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings (1988) — Translator, some editions — 416 copies
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 (1985) — Editor, some editions — 394 copies
How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues (1996) — Contributor — 46 copies
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics (2013) — Contributor — 30 copies
The Routledge Companion to Theism (2012) — Contributor — 18 copies
Spirituality and the Good Life: Philosophical Approaches (2017) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers (2018) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham (2008) — Contributor — 9 copies

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9 reviews
But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is unwilling, and also imagines and has sensory perceptions.

The most profound reflections of a Frenchman in his nightgown playing with a ball of wax.
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A great introduction but hard going for thickies like me. After months of reading I am not sure I know more about anything :D
Livro de ensaios sobre a obra de Descartes, incluindo uma excelente introdução contextualizando o mesmo e abordando diferentes tópicos como o sistema de Descartes como um todo, sua ligação com a ideia de filosofia moderna e seu legado; as posições sobre o pensamento, sua posição no debate futuro sobre intencionalidade e sapiência (a posição de que um papagaio não pensa verdadeiramente porque não é um usuário de conceitos), a relação dúbia para com os animais, o belo ensaio show more sobre trialismo cartesiano (com a necessidade da emergência de propriedades específicas para a união entre corpo e mente), aproximações entre ele e Spinoza, apesar das críticas destes, quanto ao papel da vontade; a posição de separação entre crença e fé, e o debate sobre a impossibilidade de um voluntarismo da crença direto (mas não indireto); por fim, ensaios sobre a relação com a ética, o papel de Deus, e comparação com ideais platônicos. show less
Uma boa introdução curtinha sobre a filosofia de Descartes.

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