Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations and Conventions
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cartesian Studies and the Janus-faced Philosopher Jorge Secada and Travis Tanner
Part 1: Historical Context
1. Descartes’s Life and Works Desmond Clarke
2. The Platonic Tradition Jonathan Hill
3. The Scholastic and Meditational Traditions Jorge Secada
4. The Skeptical Tradition Henrik Lagerlund
5. Descartes and the Atomists Andrew Pyle
6. Descartes and the Stoics John Marshall
Part 2: Philosophical Themes
7. Descartes’s Method Tarek Dika and Denis Kambouchner
8. Descartes’s Cogito Stephen I. Wagner
9. The Nature of the Self Lilli Alanen
10. How Well do Cartesian Minds Know Themselves? Lex Newman
11. Descartes on Ideas Kurt Smith
12. Sensibility and Intellect in Descartes Tom Vinci
13. Material Falsity Cecilia Wee
14. Descartes’s Concept of God Catherine Wilson
15. Descartes on Will and Judgment Noa Naaman-Zauderer
16. Descartes’s Distinctive Conception of Freedom Andrea Christofidou
17. Simple Natures and Eternal Truths David Cunning
18. Substance in Descartes Justin Skirry
19. Body Edward Slowik
20. Descartes on the real distinction between mind and body Katherine J. Morris
21. Causation Walter Ott
22. Descartes on Formal Causation Travis Tanner
23. Mathematics and Geometry Judith V. Grabiner
24. The Nature and Method of Physics and Natural Sciences Helen Hattab
25. Descartes, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science Celia Wolf-Devine
26. The Meaning of "Life" in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy Deborah Brown
27. Cartesian Biology and Medicine Gideon Manning
28. Spontaneous Volition and Passionate Reasons Amy M. Schmitter
29. Descartes’s Ethics Patrick Frierson
Part 3: Reception and Influence
30. Cartesians and Anti-Cartesians in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Tad Schmaltz
31. Descartes and the Newtonians Sarah Hutton
32. The Rationalist Reception of Descartes Alan Nelson and Noa Shein
33. Descartes and Berkeley or the Cartesian Origins of Idealism Jorge Secada
34. Into and out of Cartesianism within German Idealism Terry Pinkard
35. Figures of Descartes in Nineteenth-Century France Delphine Antoine-Mahut
36. Husserl revisiting Descartes Rosemary Rizo Patrón de Lerner
37. Anscombe’s Intention: overcoming the Cartesian picture of mind James Doyle
38. Cartesian Legacies in Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind Harold Langsam
39. Descartes and the Philosophy of Mind Lawrence Nolan
40. Cartesian Certainty, Realism and Scientific Inference Manuel Barrantes
41. Descartes and Modern and Contemporary Theology Aza Goudriaan
42. Descartes in Contemporary Culture Diana Cortez Buitrón (with Jorge Secada).
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Biography
Jorge Secada is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, USA, and is the author of Cartesian Metaphysics; Meditaciones sobre el Perú and a number of articles on early modern philosophy and other subjects.
Travis Tanner is Instructor of Philosophy and Religion at Austin Peay State University, USA. He is the author of several papers on the history of early modern philosophy, and his current research concerns the intersection of science, religion, and metaphysics during the Scientific Revolution.
Cecilia Wee was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and is the author of Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’ Meditations and a number of papers on early modern philosophy.
