ABSTRACT
Descartes’s views on material falsity continue to tantalize, and to draw scholars.1 In this book, I have offered a close reading of the Cartesian notion of material falsity, as well as the role that it plays in developing the argument in the Meditations. This reading has been structured around two key desiderata:
1 Descartes’s Meditations is exactly that – a meditation, through which Descartes (or if one prefers, the meditator) destroys preconceived opinion and builds, step by careful step, a new account of the self, the Creator and the created universe.
