This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It is based on the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English.

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• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Five Dialogues
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide