Silencing the Demon’s AdvocateThis book attempts to explain The Meditations (1641), a classic of Western philosophy in which Descartes tries to reach a predetermined end ("perfect certainty") by means of a definite method ("the method of doubt"). The author argues that many problems of interpretationincluding notorious problems of circularityarise from a failure to recognize that Descartes' strategy for attaining certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract