Interactive Meditations

Teaching Philosophy 25 (1):41-52 (2002)
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This essay provides a number of interactive group activities that promote discussion of Descartes’ “Meditations” and “Discourse on Method”. The activities are suitable for small discussion groups (four of five students in each group) and supply students with well defined tasks rather than general questions. The activities consider a numerous topics in Descartes work, including (for example) how to defend the idea that reason should be the supreme epistemic authority, how Descartes distinguishes between dreams and waking experience, Descartes arguments for God’s existence, and many more.

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10.5840/teachphil20022511

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Emrys Westacott
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