New Essays on the Rationalists

Introduction
Part I - Matter and Substance
1.: Jonathan Bennett, Syracuse University: Space and Subtle Matter in Descartes's Metaphysics
2.: Eric Palmer, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania: Descartes on Nothing in Particular
3.: Michael Della Rocca, Yale University: "If a Body Meets a Body": Descartes on Body-Body Causation
4.: Mathew Stuart, Bowdoin College, Maine: Descartes's Extended Substances
5.: Jan A. Cover, Purdue University: Spinoza's Extended Substance: Cartesian and Leibnizian Reflections
6.: Samuel Levey, Dartmouth College: Leibniz's Constructivism and Infinitely Folded Matter
7.: Susanna Goodin, University of Wyoming: Locke and Leibniz and the Debate over Species
Part II - Freedom and Necessity
8.: Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University: Descartes on Spontaneity, Indifference, and Alternatives
9.: Eric Sotnak, University of Akron, Ohio: The Range of Leibnizian Compatibilism
10.: Charles Huenemann, Utah State University: The Necessity of Finite Modes and Geometrical Containment in Spinoza's Metaphysics
11.: Edwin Curley and Gregory Walski, both at University of Michigan: Spinoza's Necessitarianism Reconsidered
Part III - Mind and Consciousness
12.: Stephen Voss, Bogazici University, Turkey: A Spectator at the Theater of the World
13.: Clarence Bonnen and Daniel Flage, both at James Madison University, Virginia: Distinctness
14.: Geoffrey Gorham, Cornell College, Iowa: Causation and Similarity in Descartes
15.: Don Garret, University of Utah: Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism
16.: Margaret D. Wilson, Princeton University: "For They Do Not Agree In Nature With Us": Spinoza on the Lower Animals
17.: Rocco J. Gennaro, Indiana State University: Leibniz on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
18.: Catherine Wilson, University of Alberta, Canada: The Illusory Nature of Leibniz's System
Bibliography
Index