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1 See readings on Descartes at the end of Part I, extract 4.

2 For a stimulating discussion of the Cartesian revolution in physics and metaphysics, see D. Garber, Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

3 For a valuable collection of scholarly essays, see J. Broughton and J. Carriero, A Companion to Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).

4 There are free online resources available. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has excellent entries on Descartes, his life and times and his philosophy, including links to major works. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/ (by G. Hatfield), and H. Robinson for an illuminating entry on the history of philosophical debates on substance at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/substance/. Further useful entries can be found in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, amongst them https://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/ (by J. Skirry).

5 Among the podcasts made available by the Open Educational Resources program at Oxford University you can find a number of General Philosophy lectures from 2010 including those in which P. Millican explains Descartes’s account of substance at https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/43-cartesian-dualism and modern responses to Cartesian dualism at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/44-mind-body-problem.