Broughton Janet, Carriero John (ed.) A Companion to Descartes

Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 559 p.Notes on Contributors
List of AbbreviationsLife and Works
Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature
Descartes and Augustine
Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism
Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical
Foundations of Physics
Explanation as Confi rmation in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy
Descartes and Mathematics
Descartes’s Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception
Descartes’s Method
Descartes’s Use of Doubt
Self-Knowledge
Descartes on True and False Ideas
Clear and Distinct Perception
Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without
God in Descartes
Descartes on Substance
Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension
The Role of God in Descartes’s Philosophy
The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge
Cartesian Innateness
Descartes on the Will in Judgment
Omnipotence, Modality, and Conceivability
Descartes’s Dualism
The Union and Interaction of Mind and Body
Animals
How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional
Explanation in Descartes
Descartes’s Ethics
Descartes’s Legacy in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Polemic
Contemporary Reactions to Descartes’s Philosophy of Mind
Descartes and the Phenomenological Tradition
Our Debt to Descartes