Contents	5
	Contributors	7
	Introduction	9
	Acknowledgements	19
	Notes	19
	1 The musical, the magical, and the mathematical soul (Rae Langton)	21
	The musical soul	21
	The magical soul	28
	The mathematical soul	34
	Notes	39
	2 The soul’s relation to the body: Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant and the Parisian debate on monopsychism (M.W. F. Stone)	42
	Notes	64
	3 How Cartesian was Descartes? (Sarah Patterson)	78
	Introduction	78
	Cartesian scepticism: the problem of the external world	79
	The Cartesian mind	80
	Cartesian dualism: mind without body	82
	Summary and prospectus	83
	Descartes’ use of scepticism: withdrawal from the senses	85
	The structure of the First Meditation	90
	Descartes on the nature of mind	96
	Descartes’ dualism: mind distinct from body	103
	Conclusion	109
	Notes	110
	4 The emergence of the Cartesian mind (Susan James)	119
	The Aristotelian soul	120
	Aristotelian problems	124
	The Cartesian soul	127
	Cartesian solutions	131
	Notes	136
	5 Intentionality or phenomenology? Descartes and the objects of thought (John Cottingham)	139
	Preliminaries: ideas, psychology and logic	140
	What are ideas about ?	141
	Sensory ideas	143
	Beyond phenomenology	145
	The boundaries of the mental	148
	Notes	153
	6 ‘A tumbling-ground for whimsies’? The history and contemporary role of the conscious/unconscious contrast (Neil Campbell Manson)	156
	Introduction: consciousness and the conscious/ unconscious contrast	156
	The history of unconscious mind: four notions of unconscious mentality	157
	Contemporary thinking about the mind: consciousnessindependence	169
	Notes	173
	7 The origins of qualia (Tim Crane)	177
	The contemporary mind–body problem	177
	The origins of sense-data	180
	The origins of qualia	185
	The contemporary problem of qualia	190
	Qualia as properties of experience	194
	Conclusion	198
	Notes	199
	8 Beyond dispute: sense-data, intentionality and the mind–body problem (M.G.F. Martin)	203
	A discontinuity in the debate	207
	The argument from illusion	210
	The intentional fallacy	214
	The hidden assumption	219
	Grounding the obvious	223
	Conclusion	231
	Notes	235
	Bibliography	240
	Index	256