Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies

Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes's Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including the full texts of the Third and Fourth Objections and Replies, and a selection from the other exchanges. Discovering his own existence as a thinking entity in the very exercise of doubt—in the famous formulation cogito, ergo sum—Descartes goes on to develop new conceptions of body and mind, capable of serving as foundations for a new science of na...