The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. This handbook provides an extensive overview of Cartesianism – its doctrines, its legacies and its fortunes – in the period based on the latest research.