Insight and Inference: Descartes's Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The "Twin Pillars" of Cartesianism	3
2	Scholastic-Aristotelian Metaphysics	11
3	Cartesian Metaphysics	24
4	The New Order of Knowing	39
5	Synopsis	45
Pt. 1	Thought and Consciousness	55
6	Descartes's Definition of 'Thought'	57
7	Thought, Consciousness, and 'the Cogito'	68
8	The Structure of Thought	86
9	Pure and Empirical Thought	96
Pt. 2	Certainty and Truth	107
10	The Degrees of Certainty	111
11	The Kinds of Certainty	148
12	The Modalities of Truth	165
13	Truth and Correspondence	184
14	Certainty and Circularity	205
Pt. 3	Reflexion and Inference	229
15	Consciousness, Thought, and Reflexion	231
16	Idea and Object	263
17	The Inferential Import of the Ergo	279
18	Reflexion and Innateness	291
19	The Model of the Mind	321
20	Experience and Induction	336
	Conclusion	361
21	Realism, Subjectivism, and Transcendence	363
22	The Old and the New Metaphysics	378
	Notes	391
	References	531
	Index	547