• Review Questions on Descartes
• What is Descartes' purpose in writing the "Meditations on First Philosophy"?
• Descartes enumerates major grounds for doubt.  What are they, and what are they designed to accomplish?
• Define the "resolutive-compositive method"
• According to Descartes, what is the very first thing of which one may be absolutely certain?
• What is Descartes' criterion of truth?  What is the character of things known according to this criterion?
• What is a "thinking thing"?
• According to Descartes, what is the classification of our thoughts?
• For Descartes, the source of error is in our judgments.  What does this have to do with ideas?
• Make a clear distinction between Descartes' concepts of formal and objective reality.
• How does Descartes go about showing that the idea of God must be innate?
• What is the Principle of Universal Causation?  What is the Causal Adequacy Principle?  How does Descartes use them in his Cosmological Argument for the existence of God in Meditatioins, III?
• What is the materialist's distinction between primary and secondary qualities?
• What is the wax experiment, and what is its significance?