Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface To The Princeton Edition xiii
5. Preface xvii
6. One. The First Meditation
7. 1. Introduction 3
8. 2. The General Overthrow of Belief 19
9. 3. The Criterion of Doubt 32
10. 4. The Perception of the Physical World 43
11. 5. The Strategy of the First Meditation 60
12. 6. Simple and Universal Things 75
13. 7. Mathematics in the First Meditation 84
14. 8. Mathematics and the Omnipotent Deceiver 93
15. 9. Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen 108
16. Two. Reason and Its Validation
17. 10. Sum 123
18. 11. Sum res cogitans 154
19. 12. Clear and Distinct Perception 175
20. 13. Objections to Descartes’s Rule of Evidence 200
21. 14. Memory and Doubt 215
22. 15. The Validation of Reason 235
23. 16. Truth and Reality: The Galileo Controversy 250
24. Index 257