Preface ........................................................ ix
Chronology ................................................... xiii
General Bibliography .......................................... xix
1. The Structure of Descartes' Meditations ...................... 1
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
2. The Naive Narrator: Meditation in Descartes' Meditations .... 21
L. Aryeh Kosman
3. The Senses and the Fleshless Eye: The Meditations
as Cognitive Exercises ...................................... 45
Gary Hatfield
4. Semel in vita: The Scientific Background to Descartes'
Meditations ................................................. 81
Daniel Garber
5. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Doubt ..................... 117
Michael Williams
6. Descartes and the Problem of Other Minds ................... 141
Gareth B. Matthews
7. Analysis in the Meditations: The Quest for Clear and
Distinct Ideas ............................................. 153
E.M. Curley
8. The Theory of Ideas ........................................ 177
Vere Chappell
9. The Second Meditation and the Essence of the Mind .......... 199
John P. Carriero
10.Meaning and Objective Being: Descartes and His Sources ..... 223
Calvin Normore
11.Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes'
Meditations? ............................................... 243
Louis E. Loeb
12.On the Complementarity of Meditations III and V: From
the "General Rule" of Evidence to "Certain Science" ........ 271
Genevieve Rodis-Lewis
13.The Essential Incoherence of Descartes' Definition
of Divinity ................................................ 297
Jean-Luc Marion
14.Can I Be the Cause of My Idea of the World? (Descartes
on the Infinite and Indefinite) ............................ 339
Margaret D. Wilson
15.The Idea of the True God in Descartes ...................... 359
Annette Baier
16.Confused and Obscure Ideas of Sense ........................ 389
Martha Bolton
17.Will and the Theory of Judgment ............................ 405
David M. Rosenthal
18.Objectum Purae Matheseos: Mathematical Construction
and the Passage from Essence to Existence .................. 435
David R. Lachterman
19.The Status of Necessity and Impossibility in Descartes ..... 459
Hide Ishiguro
20.Descartes: "All Things Which I Conceive Clearly and
Distinctly in Corporeal Objects Are in Them" ............... 473
Ruth Mattern
21.Why Was Descartes a Foundationalist? ....................... 491
Frederick F. Schmitt
22.Cartesian Passions and the Union of Mind and Body .......... 513
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Contributors .................................................. 535
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