Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE From Method to Epistemology and from Metaphysics to the Epistemic Stance -- Descartes's Early Work: The Rules -- The World -- The Discourse on Method -- CHAPTER TWO God and Efficient Causation -- A Historical Preamble -- God's Efficient Causation and the Introduction of Causa Secundum Esse -- God, Time, and Continual Creation: The Emergence of Re-creationism -- Causal Axioms and Common Notions -- CHAPTER THREE Seeing the Implications of His Causal Views: The Response to His Critics -- God as Causa Sui: The High Tide of Descartes's Causalism -- Eminent Containment, Transcendence, Divine Powers, and God's Causal Harmony -- Epistemic Teleology -- CHAPTER FOUR Body-Body Causation and the Cartesian World of Matter -- The Current Debate on Body-Body Causation -- The Early Descartes -- Cartesian Conservationism -- Three Questions of Metaphysics: Principles Parts I and II -- Mature Motion -- The Place of Our Position in the Current Debate -- CHAPTER FIVE Mind, Intuition, Innateness, and Ideas -- Intuition and Enumeration -- Ideas and Descartes's New Theory of Mind -- Innate Ideas -- Innateness and Sensory Ideas -- Innate Ideas: Present but Swamped -- Innateness and Intellectual Memory -- Common Notions, Eternal Truths, and Immutable Natures -- CHAPTER SIX Mind-Body Causality and the Mind-Body Union: The Case of Sensation -- Sensation -- The Physical Side of Perception -- The Mental Side of Perception -- How the Soul Moves the Body, or Mind-to-Body Causation -- The Nature of the Distinction between Mind and Body -- The Mind-Body (Soul-Body) Union -- Epistemic Teleology and Dualism -- References -- Index.