Contents -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- I: Cartesian Philosophy: Its Foundations in the Cogito and Theology -- 2. Certainty: Psychological, Moral, and Metaphysical -- 3. The Cogito: Privileged Truth or Exemplary Truth? -- 4. The Soul According to Descartes -- 5. Generosity and Phenomenology: Remarks on Michel Henry's Interpretation of the Cartesian Cogito -- 6. Did Caterus Misunderstand Descartes's Ontological Proof? -- 7. On the Idea of God: Incomprehensibility or Incompatibilities?, -- II: Cartesian Metaphysics: The Mind's Capacities and Relations to the Body -- 8. The Role of the Intellect in Descartes's Case for the Incorporeity of the Mind -- 9. Mind-Body Interaction in Descartes -- 10. Simplicity and the Seat of the Soul -- 11. Ingenium, Memory Art, and the Unity of Imaginative Knowing in the Early Descartes -- 12. Descartes on the Perception of Primary Qualities -- 13. Language and Machine in the Philosophy of Descartes -- III: Cartesian Science: Its Rhetoric, Principles, and Fruits -- 14. Whatever Should We Do with Cartesian Method? Reclaiming Descartes for the History of Science -- 15. Method, Discourse, and the Act of Knowing -- 16. From Metaphysics to Physics -- 17. Reason, Nature, and God in Descartes -- 18. Descartes and Experiment in the Discourse and Essays -- 19. Descartes's Physics and Descartes's Mechanics: Chicken and Egg? -- 20. The Heart and Blood: Descartes, Plemp, and Harvey -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.