The intellectual context - Life and works / Stephen Gaukroger - Aristotelian natural philosophy : body, cause, nature / Dennis Des Chenes - Descartes and Augustine / Catherine Wilson - Descartes and the legacy of ancient scepticism / Casey Perin - Mathematics and natural philosophy - Descartes and Galileo : copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics / Michael Friedman - Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy / Ernan McMullin - Descartes and mathematics / Paolo Mancosu - Descartes's optics : light, the eye, and visual perception / Margaret J. Osler -I Epistemology and metaphysics - Method / Murray Miles - Descartes's use of doubt / David Owens - Self-knowledge / Janet Broughton - Descartes on true and false ideas / Deborah J. Brown - Clear and distinct perception / Sarah Patterson - Causation without intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes / Michael Della Rocca - Descartes on substance / Vere Chappell - The metaphysics of extension / Calvin Normore - The role of God in Descartes's philosophy / John Cottingham - The cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge / John Carriero - Innate ideas / Alan Nelson - Descartes on the will and judgment / Lex Newman - Omnipotence, modality and conceivability / Lilli Alanen - Descartes's dualism / Marleen Rozemond - The union and interaction of mind and body / Paul Hoffman - Animals / Gary Hatfield - How to engineer a human being : passions and functional explanation in Descartes / Amy M. Schmitter - Descartes's ethics / Lisa Shapiro - Descartes's legacy - Descartes's legacy in the seventeenth century : problems and polemic / Thomas M. Lennon - Contemporary reactions to Descartes's philosophy of mind / Quassim Cassam - Descartes and the phenomenological tradition / Wayne M. Martin - Our debt to Descartes / Barry Stroud