Further readingModern surveys of Descartes's life and workBoros, Gábor, René Descartes' Werdegang: Der allgütige Gott und die Wertfreie Natur. Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2001
Cottingham, John, Descartes, Oxford, Blackwell, 1986
Gaukroger, Stephen, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, Oxford, Clarendon, 1995
Rodis-Lewis, Geneviève, Descartes, biographie, Paris, Calman-Levy, 1995. English translation by Jane Marie Todd, Descartes: His Life and Thought, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1998
Sorell, Tom, Descartes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987
Studies of the MeditationsBroughton, Janet, Descartes' Method of Doubt, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2002
Curley, Edwin, Descartes Against the Skeptics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1978
Gueroult, Martial, Descartes selon l'ordre des raisons, Paris, Aubier, 1953. English translation by Roger Ariew, Descartes's Philosophy Interpreted According to the Order of Reasons, 2 vols., Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1984
Kenny, Anthony, Descartes: A Study of his Philosophy, New York, Random House, 1968
Miles, Murray, Insight and Inference, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999
Sarka, Husain, Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Williams, Bernard, Descartes: The Project of Pure Enquiry, Sussex, Harvester, 1978
Wilson, Margaret, Descartes, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978
Special studies of DescartesAlmog, Joseph, What am I?: Descartes and the Mind–Body Problem, New York, Oxford University Press, 2002
Ariew, Roger and Green, Marjorie, Descartes and his Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections and Replies, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995
Baker, Gordon and Morris, Katherine J., Descartes's Dualism, London, Routledge, 1996
Caton, Hiram, The Origins of Subjectivity, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973
Clarke, Desmond, Descartes's Philosophy of Science, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1982
Des Chene, Dennis, Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2001
Frankfurt, Harry, Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1970
Garber, Daniel, Descartes Embodied: Reading Descartes through Cartesian Science, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Gilson, Étienne, Discours de la méthode, texte et commentaire, Paris, J. Vrin, 1962
Grosholz, Emily, Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction, Oxford, Clarendon, 1991
Nadler, Steven, “Descartes's Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote,” Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997), pp. 41–55
Röd, Wolfgang, Die innere Genesis des cartesianischen Systems, Munich, E. Reinhardt, 1964
Rozemond, Marlene, Descartes's Dualism, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1998
Schouls, Peter, Descartes and the Enlightenment, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1989
Verbeek, Theo, Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy (1637–1650), Carbondale, IL, University of Illinois, 1992
Collections of essaysCottingham, John, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992
Gaukroger, Stephen, Schuster, John and Sutton, John, eds., Descartes's Natural Philosophy, London, Routledge, 2000
Moyal, G. J. D., ed., René Descartes, Critical Assessments, 4 vols., London, Routledge, 1991
Rorty, Amélie, ed., Essays on Descartes's Meditations, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986
ArticlesBaker, Gordon P. and Morris, Katherine J., “Descartes Unlocked,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1993), pp. 5–27
Bennett, Jonathan, “Descartes's Theory of Modality,” Philosophical Review 103 (1994), pp. 639–67
Boros, Gábor, “Ethics in the Age of Automata,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (2001), pp. 139–54
Harrison, Peter, “Descartes on Animals,” Philosophical Quarterly 42 (1992), pp. 219–27
Hatfield, Gary. “Force (God) in Descartes' Physics,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 10 (1979), pp. 113–40
Hintikka, Jaako, “Cogito Ergo Sum: Inference or Performance?” Philosophical Review 71 (1962), pp. 3–32
Jacquette, Dale, “Descartes' Lumen Naturale and the Cartesian Circle,” Philosophy and Theology 9 (1996), pp. 273–320
Kaufman, Dan, “Descartes on the Objective Reality of Materially False Ideas,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2002), pp. 385–408
Kennington, Richard, “The Finitude of Descartes's Evil Genius,” Journal of the History of Ideas 32 (1971), pp. 441–6
Kim, Jaegwon, “How Can My Mind Move My Limbs? Mental Causation from Descartes to Contemporary Physicalism,” Philosophical Exchange 30 (1999–2000), pp. 5–16
Loeb, Louis, “Is There Radical Dissimulation in Descartes' Meditations?” in Essays on Descartes' Meditations, ed. Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986
Menn, Stephen, “Descartes and Some Predecessors on the Divine Conservation of Motion,” Synthèse 83 (1990), pp. 215–38
Newman, Lex, “Descartes on Unknown Faculties and our Knowledge of an External World,” Philosophical Review 103 (1994), pp. 489–531
Popkin, Richard, “Skepticism at the Time of Descartes,” Dialogos 69 (1997), pp. 243–253
Scott, David, “Occasionalism and Occasional Causation in Descartes's Philosophy,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (2000), pp. 5–16
Shapiro, Lisa, “Princess Elizabeth and Descartes: The Union of Soul and Body and the Practice of Philosophy,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1999), pp. 503–20
Simmons, Alison, “Sensible Ends: Latent Teleology in Descartes' Account of Sensation,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2002), pp. 49–75
Voss, Stephen, “Scientific and Practical Certainty in Descartes,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 67 (1993), pp. 569–85
The seventeenth-century background to the MeditationsBuchdahl, Gerd, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science, Oxford, Blackwell, 1969
Burtt, E. A., The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1932 (repr. 1972)
Rogers, John, The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry and Politics in the Age of Reason, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1996
Shapin, Steven, The Scientific Revolution, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996
Willey, Basil, The Seventeenth-Century Background: Studies of the Thought of the Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986
