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1 A general introduction to Descartes’s philosophy is J. Cottingham, Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986). Also available are a number of basic introductory guides to Descartes. See, for example, J. Cottingham, How to Read Descartes (London: Granta Books, 2008); G. Southwell, A Beginner’s Guide to Descartes’ Meditations (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2007); G. Hatfield, Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Descartes (London: Routledge, 2002).

2 See also A. Kenny, Descartes (New York: Random House, 1968); B. Williams, Descartes: The Project of Pure Inquiry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979); M. Wilson, Descartes (London: Routledge, 1978).

3 For a more detailed discussion of some of Descartes’s views on knowledge, see E. M. Curley, Descartes against the Sceptics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978) and J. Broughton, Descartes’s Method of Doubt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). A collection of essays on these and other aspects of Descartes’s philosophy is J. Cottingham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Descartes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

4 For another collection of essays with chapters on the epistemological aspects in Descartes’ Meditations see S. Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006).

5 There are useful online overviews of Descartes’ epistemology in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/ (by L. Newman), and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy with its entry on Descartes’ scientific method, https://www.iep.utm.edu/desc-sci/ (by F. Wilson).

6 See also C. McGinn’s podcast on ‘Descartes on Innate Knowledge’ recorded for Philosophy Bites, compiled by N. Warburton, https://philosophybites.com/2013/02/colin-mcginn-on-descartes-on-innate-knowledge.html, and A. C. Grayling on Descartes’ cogito argument on the same site at https://philosophybites.com/2008/02/ac-grayling-on.html.

7 Cartesian themes of epistemic doubt and illusory realities can be seen to provide the frameworks for a number of prominent films: The Truman Show (1998), Dark City (1998), The Matrix (1999), Total Recall (1990), Paprika (2006), Stalker (2004), Moon (2009), Inception (2010) and others.