Descartes, 2nd edition: An Analytical and Historical IntroductionA solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth century philosopher Ren Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entre to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant. It is also crucial to the study of contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. This new edition of Georges Dicker's commentary on Descartes's masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, features a new chapter on