Early Modern Cartesianisms Dutch and French Constructions

Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published articles and book chapters on various topics in early modern philosophy and the history and philosophy of science, and is the author of Malebranche's Theory of the Soul (1996), Radical Cartesianism (2002), and Descartes on Causation (2008).

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes for Introduction

1. Cartesianisms in Crisis
1.1. Two Problems for Descartes
1.2. The Problem of the Eucharist
1.3. The Problem of Human Freedom
Notes for Chapter 1

2. Ancient and Modern Descartes(es)
2.1. Descartes on the Ancients
2.2. Ancient Descartes
2.3. Modern Descartes
Notes for Chapter 2

3. Augustinian Cartesianisms
3.1. Descartes and Augustine
3.2. Augustine in Later Cartesianism
3.3. Augustine and Eternal Truths
3.4. The Great Debate: Arnauld v. Malebranche
Notes for Chapter 3

4. Cartesian Occasionalisms
4.1. Descartes and Occasionalism
4.2. Mind-Body Occasionalisms: Clauberg and Arnauld
4.3. 1666 Occasionalisms: La Forge and Cordemoy
4.4. Complete Occasionalisms: Geulincx and Malebranche
Notes for Chapter 4

5. Cartesianisms in Dutch Medicine
5.1. Mechanism and Empiricism in Descartes's Medicine
5.2. Regius, Descartes and Cartesianism
5.3. Mechanism and Empiricism in Dutch Medicine
Notes for Chapter 5

6. Cartesianisms in French Physics
6.1. Mechanism and Empiricism in Descartes's Physics
6.2. Qualitative French Cartesian Physics
6.3. Quantitative French Cartesian Physics
Notes for Chapter 6

Afterword
Notes for Afterword
Works Cited
Index