²¹ See Bernard Williams, Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1978), esp. ch. 2. In a work aimed at introducing the reader both to the Meditations and to analytical philosophy, Catherine Wilson likewise offers an account of the project in terms of an ideal scientist’s quest for non-obvious truths about things: Descartes’s ‘Meditations’: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1, 13–31. But she supplements this with a contextual account (pp. 230–8).