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<p>Notes on Contributors x</p> <p>List of Abbreviations xiv</p> <p>Introduction xv</p> <p><b>Part I The Intellectual Context 1</b></p> <p>1 Life and Works 3<br /><i>Stephen Gaukroger</i></p> <p>2 Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature 17<br /><i>Dennis Des Chene</i></p> <p>3 Descartes and Augustine 33<br /><i>Catherine Wilson</i></p> <p>4 Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism 52<br /><i>Casey Perin</i></p> <p><b>Part II Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 67</b></p> <p>5 Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics 69<br /><i>Michael Friedman</i></p> <p>6 Explanation as Confirmation in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy 84<br /><i>Ernan Mcmullin</i></p> <p>7 Descartes and Mathematics 103<br /><i>Paolo Mancosu</i></p> <p>8 Descartes’s Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception 124<br /><i>Margaret J. Osler</i></p> <p><b>Part III Epistemology and Metaphysics 143</b></p> <p>9 Descartes’s Method 145<br /><i>Murray Miles</i></p> <p>10 Descartes’s Use of Doubt 164<br /><i>David Owens</i></p> <p>11 Self-Knowledge 179<br /><i>Janet Broughton</i></p> <p>12 Descartes on True and False Ideas 196<br /><i>Deborah J. Brown</i></p> <p>13 Clear and Distinct Perception 216<br /><i>Sarah Patterson</i></p> <p>14 Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes 235<br /><i>Michael Della Rocca</i></p> <p>15 Descartes on Substance 251<br /><i>Vere Chappell</i></p> <p>16 Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension 271<br /><i>C. G. Normore</i></p> <p>17 The Role of God in Descartes’s Philosophy 288<br /><i>John Cottingham</i></p> <p>18 The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge 302<br /><i>John Carriero</i></p> <p>19 Cartesian Innateness 319<br /><i>Alan Nelson</i></p> <p>20 Descartes on the Will in Judgment 334<br /><i>Lex Newman</i></p> <p>21 Omnipotence, Modality, and Conceivability 353<br /><i>Lilli Alanen</i></p> <p>22 Descartes’s Dualism 372<br /><i>Marleen Rozemond</i></p> <p>23 The Union and Interaction of Mind and Body 390<br /><i>Paul Hoffman</i></p> <p>24 Animals 404<br /><i>Gary Hatfield</i></p> <p>25 How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional Explanation in Descartes 426<br /><i>Amy M. Schmitter</i></p> <p>26 Descartes’s Ethics 445<br /><i>Lisa Shapiro</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Descartes’s Legacy 465</b></p> <p>27 Descartes’s Legacy in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Polemic 467<br /><i>Thomas M. Lennon</i></p> <p>28 Contemporary Reactions to Descartes’s Philosophy of Mind 482<br /><i>Quassim Cassam</i></p> <p>29 Descartes and the Phenomenological Tradition 496<br /><i>Wayne M. Martin</i></p> <p>30 Our Debt to Descartes 513<br /><i>Barry Stroud</i></p> <p>Index 526</p>

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<p><b>Janet Broughton</b> is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Descartes's Method of Doubt(2002). <p><b>John Carriero</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published widely in early modern philosophy.

<p>"Good companions fulfill two more duties - they provide better ways of understanding the familiar and they also defamiliarise it by encouraging newslants and alerting us to relatively ignored issues: this companion does both ….A most attractive and wide-ranging addition to its field."<br> <b>(Reference Reviews, Issue 6 2008)</b> <p>With more than 30 newly commissioned essays, <i>A Companion to Descartes</i> details in unparalleled depth the work of the seventeenth-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. Alongside discussion of his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism,mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God,and the nature of animals, the volume provides in several essays a uniqueorientation to the intellectual, religious, and scientific contexts that were important to Descartes's work. Concluding with discussions of the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent generations of philosophers, the essays in this volume offer fresh and distinctive scholarly perspectives on this giant of the history of modern thought.

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