| Acknowledgements | ix |
| Series Preface | xi |
| Introduction | xiii |
Part I | Method | |
1 | 'Mathematical Demonstration and Deduction in Descartes's Early Methodological and Scientific Writings', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 31, pp. 223-44. (1993) | 3 |
2 | 'Descartes: Methodological Ideal and Actual Procedure', Philosophia Naturalis, 21, pp. 577-89. (1984) | 25 |
3 | 'Descartes, the Aristotelians, and the Revolution that Did Not Happen in 1637', The Monist, 71, pp. 471-86. (1988) | 39 |
Part II | Metaphysics and Cartesian Metaphysics | |
4 | 'On Descartes' Constitution of Metaphysics', Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 11, pp. 21-33. (1986) | 57 |
5 | 'The Crisis of the Cogito', Synthese, 106, pp. 57-66. (1996) | 71 |
Part III | Meditation and Doubt | |
6 | 'Descartes's Meditations as Cognitive Exercises', Philosophy and Literature, 19, pp. 41-58. (1985) | 83 |
7 | 'What is Cartesian Doubt?', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 467-95. (1993) | 101 |
8 | 'Scientific and Practical Certainty in Descartes', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 569-85. (1993) | 131 |
Part IV | The Cogito | |
9 | 'Cogito Ergo Sum', Journal of Philosophy, 90, pp. 462-68. (1993) | 151 |
10 | 'Cogito, Ergo Quis Est?', Revue Internationale de Philosphie, 50, pp. 5-21. (1996) | 159 |
Part V | Ideas, Truth, Judgement | |
11 | 'How Can What I Perceive Be True?', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 12, pp. 185-94. (1995) | 179 |
12 | 'Descartes on the Material Falsity of Ideas', Philosophical Review, 102, pp. 309-33. (1993) | 189 |
13 | 'Judgment and Understanding in Descartes's Philosophy', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 21, pp. 89-99. (1983) | 215 |
14 | 'Descartes's Theory of Judgment', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 21, pp. 101-10. (1983) | 227 |
Part VI | God | |
15 | 'The Problem of the Third Meditation', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 537-59. (1993) | 239 |
16 | 'Descartes on the Creation of the Eternal Truths', Philosophical Review, 93, pp. 569-97. (1984) | 263 |
17 | 'How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism', Journal of Philosophy, 84, pp. 567-80. (1987) | 293 |
Part VII | Mind and Body | |
18 | 'Descartes and the Action of Body on Mind', Studia Leibnitiana, 19, pp. 41-53. (1987) | 309 |
19 | 'Descartes on the Origin of Sensation', Philosophical Topics, 19, pp. 293-323. (1991) | 323 |
20 | 'Understanding Interaction: What Descartes Should Have Told Elisabeth', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 21, pp. 15-32. (1983) | 355 |
21 | 'Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction and the Conservation of Motion', Philosophical Review, 102, pp. 155-82. (1993) | 373 |
Part VIII | Matter and Motion | |
22 | 'Perfect Solidity: Natural Laws and the Problem of Matter in Descartes' Universe', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 13, pp. 187-204. (1996) | 403 |
23 | 'Against Emptiness: Descartes's Physics and Metaphysics of Plenitude', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25, pp. 81-96. (1994) | 421 |
24 | 'Descartes and the Nature of Body', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2, pp. 19-33. (1994) | 437 |
Part IX | Ethics and Anthropology | |
25 | 'The Insufficiency of Descartes' Provisional Morality', International Philosophical Quarterly, 31, pp. 275-93. (1991) | 455 |
26 | 'Cartesian Ethics: Reason and the Passions', Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 50, pp. 193-216. (1996) | 475 |
27 | 'Life, Science, and Wisdom According to Descartes', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 12, pp. 133-53. (1995) | 499 |
| Name Index | 521 |