Descartes's changing mind

From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance

Descartes's early work: the rules

The world

The discourse on method

God and efficient causation

A historical preamble

God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse

God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism

Causal axioms and common notions

Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics

God as causa sui: the high tide of Descartes's causalism

Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony

Epistemic teleology

Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter

The current debate on body-body causation

The early Descartes

Cartesian conservationism

Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II

Mature motion

The place of our position in the current debate

Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas

Intuition and enumeration

Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind

Innate ideas

Innateness and sensory ideas

Innate ideas: present but swamped

Innateness and intellectual memory

Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures

Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation

Sensation

The physical side of perception

The mental side of perception

How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation

The nature of the distinction between mind and body

The mind-body (soul-body) union

Epistemic teleology and dualism.