Reason, Will, and Sensation: Studies in Descartes's Metaphysics

Contents List ofContributon Abbreviations

vii X

Introduction: Plus una vice agendum: Cartesian Metaphysics Three and a Half Centuries On j'ohn Cottingham PART ONE: REASON, HISTORY, AND M E T H O D I.

Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy Bernard Williams

2.

Descartes's Modernity Tom Sorell

3. The Sources of Descartes's Procedure of Deductive Demonstration in Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy Stephen Gaukroger

47

PART TWO: REASON, BEING, AND T R U T H 4. Descartes's Concepts of Substance Peter Markie

5. God without Cause Carol Rovane

6. Descartes's Denial of the Autonomy of Reason Howard Wickes 7. Truth, Error, and the Order of Reasons: Descartes's Puzzling Synopsis of the Fourth Meditation Donald A. Cress

Contents

vi

PART THREE: T H E WILE

. Human Nature, Reason, and Will in the Argument of Descartes's Meditations Peter Schouls

759

9. Descartes's Compatibilism Vere Chappll 10.

Descartes's Doctrine of Freedom: Differences between the French and Latin Texts of the Fourth Meditation Michelle Bg~ssude

191

PART F O U R : T H E SENSES AND T H E BODY r r . Descartes on Sense and 'Resemblance' Margaret D. Wilson 12.

Sensory Ideas, Objective Reality, and Material Falsity Lilli Alanen

x 3. The Reconfiguration of Sensory Experience

Ann Wilbur MacKenzie 14 Descartes: The End of Anthropolog~.

Stephen Voa Bibliography Table of Citationsfrom Descartes 's Morks

Index

229 251