This is a guide to the full range of Descartes`s major works and ideas, including his hugely important Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.
| Acknowledgements | | ix | |
| Abbreviations | | xi | |
| Introduction | | 1 | |
| 1 Method | | 6 | |
| 1.1 Criticism of the syllogism |
| | 6 | |
| | 9 | |
| | 11 | |
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| 1.6 Analysis and synthesis |
| | 19 | |
| 1.7 A priori and a posteriori demonstration |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | |
| 2 Mind and Idea | | 29 | |
| 2.1 `I think, therefore I am` |
| | 29 | |
| | 33 | |
| | 35 | |
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| | 39 | |
| 2.6 The mind is better known than the body |
| | 41 | |
| 3 Metaphysics | | 45 | |
| 3.1 Theory of distinction |
| | 45 | |
| | 49 | |
| | 55 | |
| 3.4 Abstraction and universals |
| | 57 | |
| | 59 | |
| 3.6 The causal adequacy principle |
| | 62 | |
| 4 Religion | | 66 | |
| | 66 | |
| 4.2 The causal arguments for God`s existence |
| | 69 | |
| 4.3 Objections to the causal arguments |
| | 74 | |
| 4.4 The ontological argument for God`s existence |
| | 78 | |
| 4.5 The immortality of the soul |
| | 83 | |
| | 85 | |
| 5 Knowledge | | 91 | |
| | 91 | |
| 5.2 Formal and material falsity |
| | 92 | |
| 5.3 God`s non-deceiving nature |
| | 95 | |
| | 96 | |
| 5.5 How to avoid error and God`s guarantee |
| | 99 | |
| 5.6 Proof of an external world |
| | 101 | |
| | 103 | |
| 6 Physics | | 109 | |
| 6.1 The condemnation of Galileo |
| | 109 | |
| 6.2 Final causes and substantial forms |
| | 114 | |
| 6.3 The rejection of final causes |
| | 114 | |
| 6.4 The rejection of Atomism |
| | 117 | |
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| 7 Human Nature | | 131 | |
| 7.1 The Conceptual Argument |
| | 131 | |
| 7.2 The Divisibility/Indivisibilty Argument |
| | 133 | |
| 7.3 The mind-body problem |
| | 135 | |
| 7.4 The Sailor in a Ship Argument |
| | 138 | |
| 7.5 The modes of mind-body union |
| | 140 | |
| 7.6 Elizabeth`s (and Gassendi`s) mistake |
| | 143 | |
| 7.7 The mind-body relation |
| | 144 | |
| | 146 | |
| 8 Sensations, Passions and Morality | | 151 | |
| 8.1 The physiology of sensation |
| | 151 | |
| 8.2 Three grades of sensory response |
| | 154 | |
| | 155 | |
| 8.4 The provisional moral code |
| | 160 | |
| | 163 | |
| | 165 | |
| Notes | | 167 | |
| Bibliography | | 175 | |
| Index | | 179 | |
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