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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Note on the References and Abbreviations | |
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| Meditation I and the Method of Doubt | |
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| Descartes's Goal | |
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| The Cartesian Doubt | |
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| Is The Cartesian Doubt Self-Refuting? | |
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| The Deceptiveness of the Senses | |
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| The Dream Argument | |
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| The Deceiver Argument | |
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| Meditation II: The Cogito and the Self | |
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| Descartes's "I Am Thinking, Therefore I Exist" | |
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| The Certainty of One's Own Thoughts | |
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| A Problem for the Cogito | |
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| The Substance Theory | |
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| A Reconstruction of the Cogito Based on the Substance Theory | |
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| Critical Discussion of the Reconstructed Cogito | |
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| The Substance Theory and the Argument from Change | |
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| The Corollary | |
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| The Assumption That Thoughts Are Properties | |
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| The Inference to "I Exist" | |
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| A Defense of the Unreconstructed Cogito | |
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| Does the Unreconstructed Cogito Require an Additional Premise? | |
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| Descartes's Conception of the Self | |
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| Cartesian Dualism | |
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| Meditation III: The Criterion of Truth and the Existence of God | |
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| Descartes's Criterion of Truth | |
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| The Project of Meditation III | |
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| From the Idea of God to God | |
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| The Nature of Ideas | |
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| Objective Reality and Formal Reality | |
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| The Core Argument | |
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| The Central Argument of Meditation III: The Subargument, the Core Argument, and the Sequel | |
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| Criticisms of Descartes's Central Argument in Meditation III | |
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| The Subargument | |
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| The Precontainment Prindple | |
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| Degrees of Reality | |
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| Justifying the Causal Maxim | |
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| The Problem of the Cartesian Circle | |
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| The Restriction of the Doubt to Past Clear and Distinct Perceptions Defense | |
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| The General Rule Defense | |
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| The Radical Doubt of Reason and the Creation of the Eternal Truths | |
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| The Validation of Reason | |
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| A Final Criticism of the Core Argument | |
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| Meditation IV: Error, Freedom, and Evil | |
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| The Issues of the Fourth Meditation | |
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| Error and the Will | |
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| Some Possible Objections | |
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| Assenting and Deciding to Believe | |
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| Irresistibility and Freedom | |
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| The Coherence of Cartesian Freedom | |
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| Descartes's Troubling Letter to Mesland | |
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| Error and Evil | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| Cartesian Theodicy | |
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| Some Critical Reflections | |
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| Meditation V: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God | |
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| Descartes's Ontological Argument | |
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| Critique of the Ontological Argument | |
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| Gaunilo's Objection | |
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| Kant's Objection | |
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| Further Consideration of Kant's Objection | |
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| Caterus�s Objection | |
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| Some Implications for Descartes's System | |
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| Meditation VI: Dualism and the Material World | |
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| The Scope of Meditation VI | |
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| Descartes's Proof of the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body | |
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| Descartes's Proof of the Material World | |
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| Descartes on the Nature of the Material World | |
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| Primary and Secondary Qualities | |
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| Matter, Space, and Solidity | |
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| Bodies as Substances versus Bodies as Modes of Substance | |
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| Dualism and the Problem of Interaction | |
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| An Assessment of Cartesian Dualism | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |