This new edition contains Donald Cress's complete revision of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections in Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.
Editorial Reviews
"The new version of Cress's translation of Descartes's Meditations has attained an unusually high degree of readability....and, at the same time, of fidelity to the original. This combination makes the work especially suitable for classroom use." --Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
About the Author
René Descartes, also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy," and much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which continue to be studied closely. His influence in mathematics is also apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system that is used in plane geometry and algebra being named for him, and he was one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.
Translation by Donald A. Cress
