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Dika also challenges the “Uniformity Thesis” by emphasizing practical flexibility within the method’s application. The study highlights the importance of the Cambridge manuscript, whose readings differ from other available versions. The work grounds arguments in Descartes’s texts and in historical context for understanding the Rules’ mathematical and optical examples.","Descartes’s Method  \nIn Descartes ’s Method, Tarek Dika offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of Descartes’s early Rules for the Direction of the Mind. Dika argues powerfully that the Rules constitutes a development rather than—as others have argued—a rejection of the scholastic theory of habitus and that, contrary to a“Uniformity Thesis” popular in the literature, there is significant flexibility in the application of the method in this text. Also notable is the excellent use Dika makes of the so-called “Cambridge manuscript,” a recently discovered version of the Rules that differs significantly from other extant versions of this text. The discussion in Descartes ’s Method is well-sourced throughout and exhibits an impressive command of Descartes’s writings as well as of the relevant context, including the historical background required to understand properly illustrative treatments in the Rules of mathematics and optics.  \nTad Schmaltz, University of Michigan  \nMany scholars have tried to identify Descartes’s method with this or that technique, without convincing results. In the most comprehensive study ever written on this topic, Tarek Dika shows that, far from being a uniform procedure, Descartes’s method is an acquired habit (habitus) closely related to Aristotelian phronesis. The change of focus is illuminating. The width of views, the clarity of exposition, the breadth of the underlying culture, the search for the highest precision on each point: this is undoubtedly a great book.  \nDenis Kambouchner, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne  \nNo question in Descartes’s thought is more difficult than his method. The Rules for the Direction of the Mind, an unfinished treatise on method left unpublished in Descartes’s lifetime has given rise to numerous inconsistent interpretations, nor is it easy to see how it is reflected in his later work. Tarek Dika’s new book takes account of startling new manuscript discoveries about the Rules and offers a bold and unified new reading of the text and the project of method in Descartes’s thought. It changes the way in which we see Descartes, and will open up new conversations about this canonical figure in the history of philosophy and science.  \nDaniel Garber, Princeton University  \nDescartes’s Method The Formation of the Subject of Science  \nTAREK R . DIKA  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford, 􀀁􀀃􀀁 􀀃􀀄􀀅 , United Kingdom  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \n© Tarek R. Dika 􀀁􀀄􀀁􀀅  \nThe moral rights of the author have been asserted First Edition published in 􀀁􀀄􀀁􀀅 All rights reserved. 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