Table of Contents

Preface
1: Stephen Menn: Descartes, Augustine, and the status of faith
2: Tad M. Schmaltz: Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to Regius
3: Steven Nadler: Occasionalism and the mind-body problem
4: Stuart Brown: F. M. van Helmont: His philosophical connections and the reception of his later cabbalistic philosophy
5: Christia Mercer: Mechanizing Aristotle: Leibniz and reformed philosophy
6: Catherine Wilson: Leibniz and the animalcula
7: Thomas M. Lennon: Bayle, Locke, and the metaphysics of toleration
8: David Wootton: Pierre Bayle, libertine?

Reviews

The essays seriously challenge certain elements of what have become the standard interpretations of Descartes, Leibniz, and Bayle. They are historically weighty...and philosophically subtle...of great value and interest to anyone working on Descartes, Leibniz, or Bayle.
*Review of Metaphysics*