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| Primary Works Used or Cited | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Self-Knowledge and the Rule of Truth | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Propositional Awareness and Nonpropositional Awareness | |
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| Intuitive Knowledge and Certain Knowledge | |
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| The Method of Clear and Distinct Ideas | |
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| The First Phase of Descartes's Account of Self-Knowledge: Meditation II | |
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| The Intuitive Phase of Descartes's Account of Self-Knowledge | |
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| The Rule of Truth and the Intuitive Cogito | |
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| Identifying Intuitional Awareness | |
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| Foundationalism and Privileged Access Revisited | |
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| Defending Descartes against the Charge of Circularity | |
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| Truth, Existence, and Ideas | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Descartes's Concepts of Truth and Existence | |
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| Descartes's General Theory of Existential Reasoning | |
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| The Objective Reality of Ideas: The Basic Picture | |
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| The Ontological Status of Immutable Essences | |
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| Descartes's Notion of Eminent Containment: An Epistemic Interpretation | |
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| The Third Element of Objective Reality: The Form or Content of Perceptions of Objects | |
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| Ideas as Images: Presentation versus Representation | |
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| Causes, Existence, and Ideas | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Descartes's Causal Principles and the Rule of Truth | |
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| The Fundamentality Thesis and the Main Causal Argument for the Existence of God in Meditation III | |
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| The Relation between the Causal Argument and the Ontological Argument | |
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| The Causal Principle and the Proof of the External World in Meditation VI | |
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| The Proof of the External World in Principles II, 1 | |
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| Descartes's Ambivalence toward the Senses | |
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| Alternative Accounts of Descartes's Notion of Eminent Containment | |
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| Inadequacy versus Misperception in our Idea of God | |
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| The Sense Experience of Primary Qualities | |
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| Some Background | |
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| The Account of Sense Experience of Primary Qualities in Mature Cartesian Philosophy | |
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| Descartes's Empirical Theory of the Sense Experience of Primary Qualities | |
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| Referred Sensations | |
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| Imaginal Images | |
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| The Perceptual Representation of Ordinary Objects | |
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| Descartes's Theory of Natural Signs: The Constitutive versus the Minimalist Interpretation | |
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| Referral Judgments: What are They? | |
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| Referral Judgments: Why Do We Make Them? | |
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| The Theory of Natural Knowledge | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Account of Cognitive Impulse in the Rules for the Direction of the Mind | |
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| The Mature Theory of Natural Reasons | |
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| Natural Inclinations and the Proofs of the External World in Meditation VI and Principles II, 1 | |
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| Dispositions to Affirm Particular Properties of Corporeal Things | |
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| The Cartesian Circle and the Theory of Natural Knowledge | |
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| The Janus-faced Theory of Ideas of the Senses | |
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| Introduction: The Cartesian Regulatory Ideal | |
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| The Doctrine of the Material Falsity of Ideas of the Senses in Meditation III | |
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| The Non(re)presentational Property | |
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| Material Falsity as Mis(re)presentation | |
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| Descartes's Case against Treating Ordinary Sense Experience as a Form of Concrete Intuitive Awareness of Aristotelian Objects | |
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| Descartes's Argument that Aristotelian Objects Are Inconceivable (The Causal Argument) | |
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| The Methodological Corollary and the Mind-Body Problem | |
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| Material Falsity as Obscurity: Sense (3) | |
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| From Obscure Ideas of the Senses to Clear and Distinct Ideas of the Senses | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Cogito: Syllogism or Immediate Inference | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |