Tad M.Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, USA.

• Part 1 The Initial Reception Among Women Philosophers; Chapter 1 Women Philosophers and the Early Reception of Descartes, Sarah Hutton; Part 2 The French Reception and French Cartesianism; Chapter 2 Desgabets’s Indefectibility Thesis—a Step Too Far?, Patricia Easton; Chapter 3 A Reception Without Attachment, Jean-Christophe Bardout; Chapter 4 Huet on the Reality of Cartesian Doubt, Thomas M. Lennon; Chapter 5 French Cartesianism in Context, Tad M. Schmaltz; Part 3 Spinoza and the Dutch Reception; Chapter 6 Descartes’s Soul, Spinoza’s Mind, Steven Nadler; Chapter 7 Wittich’s Critique of Spinoza, Theo Verbeek; Chapter 8 Burchard de Volder, Paul Lodge; Part 4 The Reception in Rome and Naples; Chapter 9 Cartesian Physics and the Eucharist in the Documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671–6), Jean-Robert Armogathe; Chapter 10 Images of Descartes in Italy, Giulia Belgioioso; Part 5 The Reception Across the Channel; Chapter 11 Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft, Douglas Jesseph; Chapter 12 Descartes Among the British, Margaret Atherton;

Tad M.Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, USA.

• Part 1 The Initial Reception Among Women Philosophers; Chapter 1 Women Philosophers and the Early Reception of Descartes, Sarah Hutton; Part 2 The French Reception and French Cartesianism; Chapter 2 Desgabets’s Indefectibility Thesis—a Step Too Far?, Patricia Easton; Chapter 3 A Reception Without Attachment, Jean-Christophe Bardout; Chapter 4 Huet on the Reality of Cartesian Doubt, Thomas M. Lennon; Chapter 5 French Cartesianism in Context, Tad M. Schmaltz; Part 3 Spinoza and the Dutch Reception; Chapter 6 Descartes’s Soul, Spinoza’s Mind, Steven Nadler; Chapter 7 Wittich’s Critique of Spinoza, Theo Verbeek; Chapter 8 Burchard de Volder, Paul Lodge; Part 4 The Reception in Rome and Naples; Chapter 9 Cartesian Physics and the Eucharist in the Documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671–6), Jean-Robert Armogathe; Chapter 10 Images of Descartes in Italy, Giulia Belgioioso; Part 5 The Reception Across the Channel; Chapter 11 Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft, Douglas Jesseph; Chapter 12 Descartes Among the British, Margaret Atherton;

Tad M.Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, USA.

• Part 1 The Initial Reception Among Women Philosophers; Chapter 1 Women Philosophers and the Early Reception of Descartes, Sarah Hutton; Part 2 The French Reception and French Cartesianism; Chapter 2 Desgabets’s Indefectibility Thesis—a Step Too Far?, Patricia Easton; Chapter 3 A Reception Without Attachment, Jean-Christophe Bardout; Chapter 4 Huet on the Reality of Cartesian Doubt, Thomas M. Lennon; Chapter 5 French Cartesianism in Context, Tad M. Schmaltz; Part 3 Spinoza and the Dutch Reception; Chapter 6 Descartes’s Soul, Spinoza’s Mind, Steven Nadler; Chapter 7 Wittich’s Critique of Spinoza, Theo Verbeek; Chapter 8 Burchard de Volder, Paul Lodge; Part 4 The Reception in Rome and Naples; Chapter 9 Cartesian Physics and the Eucharist in the Documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671–6), Jean-Robert Armogathe; Chapter 10 Images of Descartes in Italy, Giulia Belgioioso; Part 5 The Reception Across the Channel; Chapter 11 Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft, Douglas Jesseph; Chapter 12 Descartes Among the British, Margaret Atherton;