Bernard Williams, — Meditations on First Philosophy with selections from the Objections and Replies.

NY, Cambridge Univ. Press, (1986). VG PB. The Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, is the most widely studied of all Descartes' writing. This. authoritativnew translation is taken from the recently published and much acclaimed Philosophical Writings of Descartes by John Cottingham, Robert Stoorhoff, and Dugald Murodch. Also a thematic abridgement of the Objections and Replies. Based on the best available origiinal texts, it presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable, modern English. Also included ia concise introductioin to Descartes' thought written especially for this volume by Bernard Williams. Main philosophical difficulties which occurred to Descartes' conemporaries, and how Descartes responded.