1) Explain Descartes’s Method of Doubt (from the assigned excerpts) and his immediate goal in employing it;
2) Explain how one part of Nye’s challenge (from the assigned transcript) could be straightforwardly applied to one of Descartes’s claims (from the assigned excerpts) (and please note, please do not argumentatively engage with one of Nye’s claims about majoring in philosophy);
3) Explain how Descartes could reply to the Nye challenge from 2), above; and
4) Argue in favor of either Descartes or Nye as you have presented them above. 1) explain Descartes’s Method of Doubt (from the assigned excerpts) and his immediate goal in employing it;
