Download or read book Discourse on Method and Related Writings written by Rene Descartes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes' correspondence and his replies to his critics.