Physics and metaphysics in Descartes and in his reception

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Historiography -- 1 First Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Physics: The Implications of Order in Cartesian Philosophy and in the Philosophy of Enlightenment -- 2 To Replant and Uproot. Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy -- 3 Between Fake, Unfortunate, and Actual Dependence: The Tumultuous Relationships of Descartes' Physics and Metaphysics in the First Half of Twentieth-Century History and Philosophy of Science -- Part II Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes' Time -- 4 The Metaphysical Roots of Physics, and the Alleged Link Between Taurellus, Gorlaeus, Regius, and Descartes -- 5 Strange Bedfellows: Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes -- 6 Descartes, A Priori Knowledge, and Metaphysics -- 7 A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Force in Descartes -- Part III European Receptions -- 8 Duplex Intellectus Et Sermo Duplex: Method and the Separation of Disciplines in Johannes De Raey -- 9 The Materialist Reception of the Cartesian Physics in Naples -- 10 Physics in the Broad Sense: Boyle, Newton, and the Baconian Metaphysical Physics -- 11 Continuous Creation, Occasionalism, and Persistence: Leibniz on Bayle -- 12 Sticking to the Middle Course: Intellectual Ethics and Scientific Practice in Leibniz's Metaphysical Physics -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index Rerum and Nominum