Christopher Biffle actively engages beginning philosophers through a variety of exercises that hone their critical
thinking, reading, and writing skills. Fill-in-the-blank dialogues between editor and reader encourage students
to reread and rethink central passages.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Your Philosophical Self-Portrait
Reading Descartes
Translator's Preface
MEDITATION I.
On What Can Be Called Into Doubt
MEDITATION II.
On the Nature of the Human Mind, Which Is Better Known Than the Body
MEDITATION III.
On God's Existence
MEDITATION IV.
On Truth and falsity
MEDITATION V.
On the Essence of Material Objects and More on God's Existence
MEDITATION VI.
On the Existence of Material Objects and the Real Distinction of Mind from Body
An Analysis of Your Philosophical Self-Portrait
Writing about Descartes
Appendix A: Selections from Anselm, Aquinas, and Augustine
Appendix B: Evidence, Conclusions, and Argument Surgery
Suggested Reading
