Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations

Descartes'' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades. David Cunning''s monograph proposes a new interpretation, which is that from beginning to end the reasoning of the Meditations is the fir...