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" alt="Book cover for Antoine Arnauld's "The True and False Ideas."" class="wp-image-659" style="width:470px;height:751px"/></a></figure>
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" alt="The book cover for St Augustine's "City of God."">. Translated by Henry Bettenson. London: Penguin, 1984.
" alt="A framed color graphic of the sideways cutout of a brain facing left labeled with many categories found in Descartes's theory of ideas.">
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" alt="The cover page for Descartes's Meditations in Latin published in 1913."></a> Curated by Artur Buchenau. Leipzig, DE: C. Grumbach, 1913.
" alt="The logo for Project Gutenberg."></a> for multiple formats of download.
" alt="The original title page in color of the 1641 edition of Descartes's "Meditationes de Prima Philosophia" with some titles in red font."> at the <a href="
" alt="A color composite of title pages for the "Trilingual Edition" of Descartes's "Meditations on First Philosophy.""> by David B. Manley and Charles S. Taylor (1998). The <a href="
" alt="The green book cover for "Discourse on the Method" and "Meditations on First Philosophy" 4th edition translated by Donald A. Cress."> 4th edition. Translated by <a href="
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" alt="A screen capture of the hyperlinks page to the Oeuvres of Descartes in 12 volumes edited by Charles Adams and Paul Tannery."></a>
" alt="The title page of "Oeuvres de Descartes," edited by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery (1897) including: Physico-Mathematica, Compendium Musicae, Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii, Recherche de la Verité, Supplement a la Correspondence."></a> or even easier, just click on this <a href="
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" alt="A screen capture of a public domain version of Elizabeth S. Haldane's translation of Descartes's "Meditations on First Philosophy."">
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" alt="A color graphic of Nicolas Malebranche standing with his shoulders turned back slightly to his right facing forward with a high neck collared shirt and dark brown tunic with the name "Malebranche" underneath the portrait in orange/yellow font." class="wp-image-2019" style="aspect-ratio:0.81875;width:266px;height:auto"/></a></figure>
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" alt="An enhanced color photographic headshot cutout of Robert Merrihew Adams used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="The yellowed plain paper cover for the volume "Language, Knowledge, and Intentionality: Perspectives on the philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka."">, edited by <a href="
" alt="A color photograph of Lilli Alanen seated at a desk reading through a manuscript."></a>
" alt="The white book cover for "Le idee e le cose. La theoria della percepzione di Descartes.""></a> Pisa: Edizione ETS (Series: Philosophica), 2007. English translation of title: Ideas and things. The theory of perception of Descartes.
" alt="A color photographic cutout of a headshot of Richard E. Aquila with glasses and a mustache and goatee while wearing a green shirt with horizontal stripes used for identifying him."></a> "<a href="
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" alt="A mildly enhanced reversed color photographic headshot of Christian Barth used for identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout headshot of Jonathan Bennett used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
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" alt="A framed color drawing of Descartes standing at a lectern/table in a library with four soldiers to his left used as an advertising promotion for the DTOI website." class="wp-image-893" style="width:832px;height:671px"/></a></figure>
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" alt="A color photographic headshot of John Carriero wearing a light brown jacket over a blue shirt used for identifying him."></a>. <a href="
" alt="The color book over of "Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations.""></a>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
" alt="A color shoulders and headshot of a glasses wearing Andrew Chignall with a lavender colored collar under a black sweater used to identify him."></a>. "<a href="
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" alt="The purple book cover of "The Cambridge Companion to Descartes.""></a> Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
" alt="The colored book cover of "Descartes" by John Cottingham of the portrait of Descartes by Frans Hall on a brown background and the name Descartes underneath in yellow font."></a>. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
" alt="The purple book cover of "A Descartes Dictionary" by John Cottingham."></a>. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1993.
" alt="The book cover for "History of the Mind-Body Problem."">, edited by <a href="
" alt="The green book cover with a white font for "Reasson, Will, and Sensation: Studies in Descartes's Metaphysics."">. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
" alt="The book cover of "Objective Being in Descartes and in Suarez.""></a>Rome: Gregorian University Press, 1966.
" alt="An advertising banner for the DTOI website consisting of a framed color photograph of a short suspension bridge leading into the jungle with prominent categories found in Descartes's theory of ideas sticking up along either side of the suspension wires.">
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" alt="Three transparent color headshots of Michael Della Rocca."></a> . "<a href="
" alt="A color photographic headshot of Rafaella De Rosa with a close cropped platinum blond haircut."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="n enhanced color photographic headshot of Lisa Downing used to identify her."></a>. "<a href="
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" alt="An enhanced color photograph of Claudia Lorena-Garcia used for identifying her."></a>. <a href="
" alt="The yellow top half with Descartes's head facing right on bottom half book cover of Marjorie Grene's "Descartes" (1985)."></a> Brighton, Sussex, UK: The Harvester Press, 1985.
" alt="The brown and orange book covers for Martial Gueroult's "Descartes' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons, Vol. 1: The Soul and God" and "Descartes' Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons, Vol. 2: The Soul and the Body" translated by Roger Ariew (1985). "></a>
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" alt="An enhanced color photographic headshot cutout of Johannes Haag used for visually identifying him."></a> <a href="
" alt="An enhanced and mirror reveresed closeup color headshot of Dr. Johannes Haag used for visually identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced and reveresed color photographic headshot cutout of John Arndt Hanson used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="A color photographic mirror reversed cutout of Peter Harrison Professorial Research Fellow and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
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" alt="A color photographic cutout of Mark Heller of Syracuse University used for visually identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="A color photographic headshot of Boris Hennig used for identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced and colorized headshot of Paul Hoffman used for identifying him."></a>. "Cartesian Passions and Cartesian Dualism." Pacific Philosophicsl Quarterly 71, no. 6? (1990): 310–32 ?.
" alt="The red, blue, and lime green logo for ZLIBRARY.TO."></a>.
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" alt="The yellow book cover for "Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays.""></a>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
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" alt="An enhanced color headshot of an unsmiling Dan Kaufman wearing a red shirt with tight white stripes used for identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
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" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of Laura Keating used to visually identify her."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout if Andreas Kemmerling used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="The book cover for "Perception and Reality: From Descartes to the Present.""></a>, edited by <a href="
" alt="A color photographic cutout of Lisa Jeanne Downing used for identifying her."></a> <a href="
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" alt="The royal purple book cover for "Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy.""> Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of Antonia LoLordo used for visually identifying her."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="The enhanced color book cover of "Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages.""></a>, edited by <a href="
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" alt="An enhanced photographic cutout of Stephen Menn used for identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced and mirror reversed photographic headshot cutout of Katherine J. Morris used for identifying her."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of Peter Myrdal's head and torso used to visually identify him."></a> and <a href="
" alt="A closeup photographic cutout headshot of Arto Repo used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="The blue-green geometric patterned book cover for "Mind. Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza.""></a>, edited by <a href="
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" alt="A color photographic headshot of Anna Pilar Ortin Nadal used for visually identifying her."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of a smiling Steven Nadler wearing glasses used to visually identify him."></a>. <a href="
" alt="The color book cover for Causation in Early Modern Philosophy.""></a>. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
" alt="An enhanced color headshot of Alan Nelson from his University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill website identifying his face."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced photographic cutout of Lex Newman used to visually identify him."></a> "<a href="
" alt="The color book cover of "The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy.""></a>, edited by <a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of a headshot of Lawrence Nolan used to visually identify him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of a headshot of a smiling Lawrence Nolan with sunglasses propped on the top of his head used to visually identify him."></a> ed. <a href="
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" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of Robert Pasnau used for visually identifying him."></a>. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced color photographic cutout of a closeup headshot of Robert Pasnau wearing a patterned dark blue shirt under a black sport coat used for visually identifying him."></a>. <a href="
" alt="The enhanced color book cover for :Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages.""></a>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
" alt="Three transparent color headshots of Dominik Perler.">. "<a href="
" alt="An enhanced book cover for Dominik Perler's "Repräsentation bei Descartes" used to identify it."></a>. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1996.
" alt="The dark black book cover of "Ideen. Repräsentationalismus in der frühen Neuzeit. Texte und Kommentare.""> Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010.
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" alt="A screen capture of the Table of Contents for "Science, Perception, and Reality" by Wilfrid Sellars.">
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" alt="An enhanced and colorized photograph of Kurt D. Smith used as identification."></a>. "<a href="
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