A Companion to Descartes Book

Notes on Contributor.

List of Abbreviations.

Introduction.

PART I. THE INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT.

1. Life and Works (Stephen Gaukroger).

2. Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature (Dennis Des Chene).

3. Descartes and Augustine (Catherine Wilson).

4. Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism (Casey Perin).

PART II. MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.

5. Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics (Michael Friedman).

6. Explanation as Confirmation in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy (Ernan McMullin).

7. Descartes and Mathematics (Paolo Mancosu).

8. Descartes’s Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception (Margaret J. Osler).

PART III. EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS.

9. Descartes’s Method (Murray Miles).

10. Descartes’s Use of Doubt (David Owens).

11. Self-Knowledge (Janet Broughton).

12. Descartes on True and False Ideas (Deborah J. Brown).

13. Clear and Distinct Perception (Sarah Patterson).

14. Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes (Michael Della Rocca).

15. Descartes on Substance (Vere Chappell).

16. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension (C.G. Normore).

17. The Role of God in Descartes’s Philosophy (John Cottingham).

18. The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge (John Carriero).

19. Cartesian Innateness (Alan Nelson).

20. Descartes on the Will in Judgment (Lex Newman).

21. Omnipotence, Modality, and Conceivability (Lilli Alanen).

22. Descartes’s Dualism (Marleen Rozemond).

23. The Union and Interaction of Mind and Body (Paul Hoffman).

24. Animals (GaryHatfield).

25. How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional Explanation in Descartes (Amy M. Schmitter).

26. Descartes’s Ethics (Lisa Shapiro).

PART IV. DESCARTES’S LEGACY.

27. Descartes’s Legacy in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Polemic (Thomas M. Lennon).

28. Contemporary Reactions to Descartes’s Philosophy of Mind (Quassim Cassam).

29. Descartes and the Phenomenological Tradition (Wayne M. Martin).

30. Our Debt to Descartes (Barry Stroud).

Index.