1 “...This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals...”

2 Table of Contents: “... -- Scientia and the Sciences in Descartes -- Scientia and Self-knowledge in Descartes -- Spinoza’s Theory...”

3 Table of Contents: “... -- The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir -- The Psychology...”

4 Table of Contents: “... Fourteenth-Century Debate -- Augustine and Descartes on the Function of Attention in Perceptual Awareness...”

5 Table of Contents: “... Cartesians and Natural Magicians -- Desgabets: Rationalist or Cartesian Empiricist? -- Descartes, Spinoza...”

6 Table of Contents: “... -- The Sovereignty of the People -- Locke’s Account of Abstract Ideas—Again -- Descartes and Locke on the Nature...”

7 Table of Contents: “... the Premodern and the Modern -- 1. Descartes on the Human Nature and the Human Good; Lisa Shapiro -- 2. Spinoza...”

8 Table of Contents: “....Galileo and the spread of the Copernican system -- Chapter 5. Descartes and the new mechanistic paradigm...”

9 Table of Contents: “... vitalisme de Cudworth et de More -- XI Force, Motion and Causality: More’s Critique of Descartes -- XII...”

10 Table of Contents: “... (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Battles for nature: from Descartes to Boyle via Harvey -- Chapter 6...”

11 “... into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileo’s law of fall and Descartes’ principle...”

12 Table of Contents: “.... Gradual Monism in More’s Philosophical Poems -- 7.3. Life and Causation in the More-Descartes...”

13 Table of Contents: “... of Descartes -- Chapter II: Philosophical Historiography in France from Bayle to Deslandes -- Chapter III: A...”

14 “..., to the better-known works of Descartes, Malebranche, Cudworth, Leibniz, Boyle, Spinoza, Newton, and Locke...”

15 Table of Contents: “... -- The Quarrel Over Ancient And Modern Scepticism: Some Reflections On Descartes And His Context -- Popkin...”

16 “... significant contribution to the main­ stream of Western philosophy from Descartes onwards, and it is assumed...”

17 “... into the past further than the psycho-somatic dualism of Descartes which started the mechanistic approach...”