Contents:
Introduction Mechanics and Cosmology 1. Descartes and the natural philosophy of the Coimbra commentaries
Dennis Des Chene 2. Descartes' debt to Beeckman: inspiration, cooperation, conflict
Klaas Van Berkel 3. The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in Descartes' natural philosophy
Stephen Gaukroger 4. Force, determination and impact
Peter MaLaughlin 5. A different Descartes: Descartes' programme for a mathematical physics in his correspondence
Daniel Garber 6. Casual powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche
Desmond Clarje 7. Modelling nature: Descartes versus Reigus
Theo Verbeek 8. The influence of Cartesian cosmology in England
Peter Harrison Method, Optics, and the Role of Experiment 9. NeoAristotle and method: between Zabarella and Descartes
Timothy Reiss 10. Figuring things out: figurate problem-solving in the early Descartes
Dennis Sepper 11. The theory of the rainbow
Jean-Robert Armogathe 12. Descartes'
opticien: the construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618-1629
John A. Schuster 13. A 'science for
honnêteshommes':
La Recherche de la Vérité and the deconstruction of experimental knowledge
Alberto Guillermo Ranea 14. Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian, Jacques Rohault
Trevor McLaughlin 15. Cartesian physiology
Annie Bitbol-Hesperies 16. The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem of goal-directed processes
Stephen Gaukroger 17. Bêtes machines
Katherine Morris 18. Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiology
Peter Anstey Imagination and Representation 19. Descartes' theory of imagination and perspectival art
Betsy Newell Decyk 20. From sparks of truth to the glow of possibility
Peter Schouls 21. Descartes' theory of visual spatial perception
Celia Wolf-Devine 22. Symposium on Descartes on perceptual cognition. Introduction
John Sutton Descartes and Formal Signs
David Behan Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse sign relation
Peter Slezak Bibliography