By Georges Dicker

A superior grab of the most issues and arguments of the seventeenth-century thinker René Descartes is vital for realizing glossy notion, and an important entrée to the paintings of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant. it's also an important to the learn of up to date epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of brain. This new version of Georges Dicker's observation on Descartes's masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, encompasses a new bankruptcy at the Fourth Meditation and superior remedies of the recognized cogito ergo sum and the infamous challenge of the Cartesian Circle, between a number of different advancements and updates. transparent and obtainable, it serves as an creation to Descartes's principles for undergraduates and as a cosmopolitan significant other to his Meditations for complex readers. the amount presents an intensive dialogue of a number of simple problems with epistemology and metaphysics elicited from the most subject matters and arguments of the Meditations. It additionally delves into the work's ancient history and significant reception. Dicker deals his personal checks of the Cartesian Doubt, the cogito, the causal and ontological proofs of God's lifestyles, Cartesian freedom and theodicy, Cartesian Dualism, and Descartes's perspectives concerning the lifestyles and nature of the cloth global. The remark additionally includes a wealth of contemporary Descartes scholarship, and inculcates -- yet doesn't presuppose -- wisdom of the equipment of up to date analytic philosophy.