Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index

Introduction / Tad M. Schmaltz -- PART I. THE INITIAL RECEPTION AMONG WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS -- Women philosophers and the early reception of Descartes: Anne Conway and Princess Elisabeth / Sarah Hutton -- PART II. THE FRENCH RECEPTION AND FRENCH CARTESIANISM -- Desgabets's indefectibility thesis - a step too far? / Patricia Easton -- A reception without attachment: Malebranche confronting Cartesian morality / Jean-Christophe Bardout -- Huet on the reality of Cartesian doubt / Thomas M. Lennon -- French Cartesianism in context: the Paris Formulary and Regis's Usage / Tad M. Schmaltz -- PART III. SPINOZA AND THE DUTCH RECEPTION -- Descartes's soul, Spinoza's mind / Steven Nadler -- Wittich's critique of Spinoza / Theo Verbeek -- Burchard de Volder: crypto-Spinozist or disenchanted Cartesian? / Paul Lodge -- PART IV. THE RECEPTION IN ROME AND NAPLES -- Cartesian physics and the Eucharist in the documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671-6) / Jean-Robert Armogathe -- Images of Descartes in Italy / Giulia Belgioioso -- PART V. THE RECEPTION ACROSS THE CHANNEL -- Mechanism, skepticism, and witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the failures of the Cartesian philosophy / Douglas Jesseph -- Descartes among the British: the case of the theory of vision / Margaret Atherton