Required textbooks (tentative):

You will have to have paper copies of these books, which you will need to bring to class.

• Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, trans., The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vols. I and II
  Cambridge University Press (paperback); ISBN 978-0-521-28807-1 and 978-0-521-28808-8
• Amelie Rorty, ed., Essays on Descartes' Meditations
  University of California Press (paperback); ISBN 978-0520055094
• Harry Frankfurt, Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen
  Princeton University Press (paperback); ISBN 978-0-691-13416-1
• Margaret Wilson, Descartes
  Routledge (paperback); ISBN 978-0415065764
• Bernard Williams, Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry
  Routledge (paperback); ISBN 978-1138019188; the older Penguin edition, ISBN 978-0140220063, is also fine.

Optional textbook:

• TBA

Reading Assignments:

1. Aug. 25: Introduction.
   
   Optional prereading: Descartes, "The Search for Truth" (CSM II:399-420 [that is, in the Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch edition of The Philosophical Writings, vol. II, pp. 399-420]); "Discourse on the Method," first para. of Part II (at CSM I:116-17, starting "At that time I was in Germany...").