Phil 7130 - Graduate Seminar on Descartes

Instructor:  Lex Newman

A detailed syllabus of the course will be forthcoming, namely at the start of the semester. In the mean time, I'll indicate the texts that you should be buying. The first two of these are required texts; the second two are optional texts.

• Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations, by John Carriero (Princeton, 2008).
  • REQUIRED text
  • ISBN:  978-0691135618.
  • Price from Amazon.
  
  
• Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 2, translated and edited by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch [CSM](Cambridge, 1985).
  • REQUIRED text
  • ISBN:  978-0521288088.
  • Price from Amazon.
  
  
• Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 1, translated and edited by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch [CSM] (Cambridge, 1985).
  • OPTIONAL text
  • ISBN:  978-0521288071.
  • Price from Amazon.
  
  
• Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 3 - correspondanc, translated and edited by Cottingham, Stoothoff, Murdoch, and Kenny [CSMK] (Cambridge, 1991).
  • OPTIONAL text
  • ISBN:  978-0521423502.
  • Price from Amazon.