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  1. Descartes on the source of error: the Fourth Meditation and the Correspondence with Elisabeth.Lianghua Zhou - 2022 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (6):992-1012.
    In the Fourth Meditation, Descartes famously treats the indifference of the will (roughly, ambivalence of reasons) as the source of error, which many read as oddly suggesting that the will judges arbitrarily. In his letter to Elisabeth dated 1st September 1645, however, he expressly takes passions to be the source of error, saying that passions move the will to judge erroneously by misrepresenting the value of objects. Although these two accounts focus on different kinds of error – theoretical and practical (...)
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