Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus

"Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy "In Focus contains the excellent and popular Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross translation of Rene Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy. It also contains a portion of the "Replies to Objections II, in which Descartes discusses how the method employed in the "Meditations, which he calls "analysis," differs from the method of "synthesis" employed by the geometer.
In his introduction, Stanley Tweyman provides a fresh and detailed discussion of the relationship between Descartes' "Rules "for the Direction of the Mind and the method of "analysis," and their applications to the "Meditations. The six critical papers drawn together in this book present a broad and exegetical commentary on the "Meditations and give an indication of the diversity of scholarly opinion which exists on the topic of method in Descartes' philosophy. An extensive bibliography is also included.
Contributors: D. M. Clarke, E. Curley, D. Garber, L. Cohen, J. Hintikka, Georges Moyal, and Stanley Tweyman.

Chapter 1 Introduction, Stanley Tweyman; Chapter 2 Meditations on First Philosophy; Chapter 2a Synopsis of the Six Following Meditations; Chapter 2b Meditations on the First Philosophy in which the Existence of God and the Distinction Between Mind and Body are Demonstrated1In place of this long title at the head of the page the first Edition had immediately after the Synopsis, and on the same page 7, simply "First Meditation." (Adam's Edition.); Chapter 3 Excerpt from Replies to Objections II; Chapter 4 Descartes' Use of "Demonstration" and "Deduction", Desmond M. Clarke; Chapter 5 A Discourse on Descartes' Method, Jaakko Hintikka; Chapter 6 A Point of Order: Analysis, Synthesis, and Descartes' Principles, Daniel Garber, Lesley Cohen; Chapter 7 Professor Cottingham and Descartes' Methods of Analysis and Synthesis, Stanley Tweyman; Chapter 8 Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas, E.M. Curley; Chapter 9 The Ontological Proof within the Order of Reasons, Georges J.D. Moyal;