Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' "Meditations"

He proposes that Descartes is reflecting on what happens in philosophical inquiry: we are unclear about something, we roam about using our existing concepts and intuitions, we abandon or revise some of these, and then eventually we come to see a result as clear that we did not see as clear before. Thus Cunning's fundamental insight is that Descartes is a teacher, and the reader a student. With that reading in mind, a significant number of the interpretive problems that arise in the Descartes literature dissolve when we make a distinction between the Cartesian and non-Cartesian elements of the Meditations, and a better understanding of surrounding texts is achieved as well. This important volume will be of great interest to scholars of early modern philosophy.

INTRODUCTION
1. The Problem of the First-Person Point-of-View
2. . Epistemic Position and the First Meditation
3.
Imagining Mind and Body
4.
The Idea of a Supreme Being
5.
Truth and Imprecision in the Fourth Meditation
6.
Another Proof of the Existence of God
7.
Embodiment and Union
8.
The Post-Meditations Meditator
9. Worries About Descartes' Method and its Implementation
10.
Philosophical Inquiry and the Problem of Current Commitments