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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the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes'' correspondence and his replies to his critics.

Table of Contents
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Desmond M. Clarke
Acknowledgments
Note on References to Descartes
Introduction
Further Reading
Discourse on the Method for Guiding One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences
Selected Correspondence, 1636-9
The World, or a Treatise on Light (Chapter 1-7)
Rules for Guiding One's Intelligence in Searching for the Truth

Text Notes
Index

Discourse on Method and Related Writings

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 02/09/1999
      ISBN13: 9780140446999, 978-0140446999
      ISBN10: 0140446990
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes'' correspondence and his replies to his critics.

      Table of Contents
      Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Desmond M. Clarke
      Acknowledgments
      Note on References to Descartes
      Introduction
      Further Reading
      Discourse on the Method for Guiding One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences
      Selected Correspondence, 1636-9
      The World, or a Treatise on Light (Chapter 1-7)
      Rules for Guiding One's Intelligence in Searching for the Truth

      Text Notes
      Index

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