Descartes : a very short introduction / Tom Sorell.

Matter and Metaphysics
The discovery of a vocation
One science one method
'Absolutes', simple natures, and problems
Roaming about in the world
Paris
The suppressed physics
Three specimens of a method
A new 'logic'
The need for metaphysics
The meditations
Doubt without scepticism?
The theologians and the God of physics
Ideas
The mind
Body
The physics made public
The 'other science'
Last days
Descartes's ghost
Further readings
Index.