John Cottingham's much acclaimed translation of Descartes's philosophical masterpiece, Meditations on First Philosophy, is now presented in a facing-page edition alongside Descartes's original Latin text. The invaluable dual-language format, long valued by students and readers of ancient classical literature, is now available for this essential text of the early modern period.

John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. He is co-editor and translator of the standard English edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes (1991), and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Descartes (1992), and his own books in this area include Cartesian Reflections (2008). He has also published extensively in the fields of moral philosophy and philosophy of religion.