Discourse on Method and Related Writings

by René Descartes, Desmond M. Clarke (Introduction), Desmond M. Clarke (Translator), Desmond Clarke (Noted by)

Overview

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes' correspondence and his replies to his critics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141906287
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	09/02/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the French philosopher and mathematician, is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. Desmond C. Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Cork. He has published widely on Descartes and French seventeenth-century Cartesian philosophers.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	viii
	Note on References to Descartes	ix
	Introduction	xi
	Further Reading	xxxv
	Discourse on the Metbod for Guiding One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences	1
	Selected Correspondence, 1636-9	55
	The World, or a Treatise on Light (Chapters 1-7)	81
	Rules for Guiding One's Intelligence in Searching for the Truth	113
	Text Notes	195
	Index	205