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    This document contains the table of contents for a book on Cartesian metaphysics. It lists 14 chapters across 4 parts that discuss various aspects of Descartes's philosophical works and ideas, including his views on reason, substance, God, free will, the senses, and the body. The contributors examine topics such as Descartes's methodology, modernity, concept of substance, denial of autonomous reason, compatibility between freedom and determinism, and reconfiguration of sensory experience. The book aims to further philosophical understanding of Descartes's metaphysical system over 350 years after its inception.

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    An In-Depth Exploration of Cartesian Metaphysics

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    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

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