Front Cover -- Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Stanley Tweyman -- Meditations on First Philosophy -- Letter of dedication -- Preface to the reader -- Synopsis of the six following Meditations -- I. Of the things which may be brought within the sphere of the doubtful -- II. Of the nature of the human mind -- and that it is more easily known than the body -- III. Of God: that He exists -- IV. Of the true and the false -- V. Of the essence of material things, and, again, of God, that He exists -- VI. Of the existence of material things, and of the real distinction between the soul and body of man -- Excerpt From Replies To Objections II -- Descartes' Use of "Demonstration" and "Deduction": Desmond M. Clarke -- A Discourse on Descartes' Method: Jaakko Hintikka -- A Point of order: Analysis, Synthesis, and Descartes' Principles: Daniel Garber and Lesley Cohen -- Professor Cottingham and Descartes' Methods of Analysis and Synthesis: Stanley Tweyman -- Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and Distinct Ideas: E. M. Curley -- The Ontological Proof Within the Order of Reasons: Georges J. D. Moyal -- Selected bibliography -- Selected index.