Descartes's Meditations

In this introduction to a classic philosophical text, Catherine Wilson examines the arguments of Descartes'' famous Meditations, the book which launched modern philosophy. Drawing on the reinterpretations of Descartes'' thought of the past twenty-five years, she shows how Descartes constructs a theory of the mind, the body, nature, and God from a premise of radical uncertainty. She discusses in de...