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Was Descartes a Voluntarist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Anthony O'Hear
Anthony O'Hear
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University of Surrey
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Philosophy , Volume 54 , Issue 207 , January 1979 , pp. 105 - 107
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1979

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References

1 Grant, Brian, ‘Descartes, Belief and the Will’, Philosophy 51 (1976), 401–419.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Descartes' works are quoted from the two volume Haldane, and Ross, edition (Cambridge, 1969)Google Scholar. Fourth Meditation, H. & R. I, 175.Google Scholar

3 Principles I, XLIIIGoogle Scholar, H. & R. I, 236Google Scholar; cf. also Replies IIGoogle Scholar, H. & R. II, 42.Google Scholar

4 Principles I, XLIIGoogle Scholar, H. & R. I, 235–236 (my italics).Google Scholar

5 Cf. Discourse on the Method, H. & R. I, 92.Google Scholar

6 Principles I, XLIVGoogle Scholar, H. & R. I, 236.Google Scholar

7 Interview in The Times 20 11 1976.Google Scholar

8 Cf. Grant, , loc. cit., 410Google Scholar, and my ‘Belief and the Will’, Philosophy 47 (1972), 95–112.Google Scholar