C.G. Prado is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. His previous publications include Starting with Foucault (Westview, 2000), A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy (Humanity, 2003), Searle and Foucault on Truth (Cambridge, 2006) and Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism (Cambridge, 2008).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Descartes and his Project; 3. The First Meditation: Methodological Doubt; 4. The Second Meditation: The Cogito; 5. The Third Meditation: The Causal Argument for God's Existence; 6. A Brief Interlude; 7. The Fourth Meditation: Explaining the Possibility of Error; 8. The Fifth Meditation: The Ontological Argument for God's Existence; 9. The Sixth Meditation: The World's Existence; 10. Conclusion; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index.

"Prado skillfully weaves together virtually the entire Western philosophical tradition, while illuminating Descartes' central role ... This slim book, which is a mine of information about central philosophical questions, should prove extremely useful." - Tom Rockmore, McAnulty College Distinguished Professor, Duquesne University, USA