Introduction
Part I. Historiographical Preliminaries: 1. Does history have a future? Some reflections on Bennett and doing philosophy historically
Part II. Method, Order and Certainty: 2. Descartes and method in 1637
3. A point of order: analysis, synthesis, and Descartes's Principles
4. J. B. Morin and the Second Objections
5. Descartes and experiment in the Discourse and Essays
6. Descartes on knowledge and certainty
Part III. Mind, Body, and the Laws of Nature: 7. Mind, body, and the laws of nature in Descartes and Leibniz
8. Understanding interaction: what Descartes should have told Elizabeth
9. How God causes motion: Descartes, divine sustenance, and occasionalism
10. Descartes and occasionalism
11. Semel in Vita: the scientific background to Descartes meditations
12. Forms and qualities in the Sixth Replies
Part IV. Larger Visions: 13. Descartes, or the cultivation of the intellect
14. Experiment, community, and the constitution of nature in the seventeenth century.
