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53Hume as Man of Reason and Woman's PhilosopherIn Lilli Alanen & Charlotte Witt (eds.), Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 171. 2004.
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23The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2021.Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the early modern period. From a pantheistic starting point that identified God with Nature as all of reality, he sought to demonstrate an ethics of reason, virtue, and freedom while unifying religion with science and mind with body. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, psychology, ethics, politics, and the analysis of religion remain vital to the present day. Yet his wri…Read more
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17Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's EthicsPhilosophical Review 100 (3): 512. 1991.
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23Spinoza's Conatus ArgumentIn Olli Koistinen & J. I. Biro (eds.), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford University Press. pp. 127-58. 2002.
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64Replies (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (1). 2001.David Owen begins his contribution by setting out very clearly how my interpretation of Hume’s distinction between simple and complex perceptions helps to resolve some puzzles about apparent counterexamples to the two most fundamental principles of Hume’s cognitive psychology: the Copy Principle and the Separability Principle. His primary object of criticism is my interpretation of Hume’s famous conclusion that inductive inferences are “not determin’d by reason”. I am as grateful for Owen’s crit…Read more
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23The papers in this volume are a selection of the papers presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting of 1994. The papers were selected by the 1993-1994 Pacific Division Program Committee, whose members include: Jean Hampton (Chair) (review)Philosophical Studies 77 (193)
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29Aaron V. Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza's Method (review)Philosophical Review 118 (2): 241-244. 2009.
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69Leibniz, God, and NecessityPhilosophical Review 123 (2): 234-238. 2014.Book Review of Leibniz, God, and Necessity by Michael Griffin
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6Truth, Method, and Correspondence in Spinoza and Leibniz in Spinoza and LeibnizStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 6 13-43. 1990.
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6Spinoza on the Essence of the Human Body and the Part of the Mind that is EternalIn Olli Koistinen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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6'A Small Tincture of Pyrrhonism': Skepticism and Naturalism in Hume's Science of ManIn Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Pyrrhonian Skepticism, Oxford University Press. pp. 68--98. 2004.
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39'Promising' ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophyIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed & Michael A. Rosenthal (eds.), Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. pp. 192. 2010.
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34Millican’s “Abstract,” “Imaginative,” “Reasonable,” and “Sensible” Questions about Hume’s Theory of CognitionHume Studies 40 (2): 227-242. 2014.In a 1998 Hume Studies book symposium, Peter Millican provided excellent critical comments on my Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy, and I am grateful that he has done the same for Hume. Many of the new or revised interpretations in the latter book result, directly or indirectly, from his extraordinary stimulus, both in his writings and in person, as a philosophical scholar and interlocutor. His comments range over much of the book, but the majority of them concern chapter 2, chapter …Read more
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31Hume's Conclusions in “Conclusion of this Book”In Saul Traiger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Some Features of Hume's Approach to the Science of Man Structure and Content of “Conclusion of this book” The Rational Justification of Belief Skepticism and Naturalism Notes References Further reading.
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208The First Motive to Justice: Hume's Circle Argument SquaredHume Studies 33 (2): 257-288. 2007.Hume argues that respect for property (“justice”) is a convention-dependent (“artificial”) virtue. He does so by appeal to a principle, derived from his virtue-based approach to ethics, which requires that, for any kind of virtuous action, there be a “first virtuous motive” that is other than a sense of moral duty. It has been objected, however, that in the case of justice (and also in a parallel argument concerning promise-keeping) Hume (i) does not, (ii) should not, and (iii) cannot recognize …Read more
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241Cognition and commitment in Hume's philosophyOxford University Press. 1997.It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings. Don Garrett demonstrates that such criticisms of Hume are without basis. Offering fresh and trenchant solutions to longstanding problems in Hume studies, Garrett's penetrating analysis also makes clear the continuing relevance of Hume's philosophy.
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29Should Hume have been a transcendental idealist?In Daniel Garber & Béatrice Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns, Princeton University Press. pp. 193--208. 2008.
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71Representation and consciousness in Spinoza's naturalistic theory of the imaginationIn Charles Huenemann (ed.), Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. pp. 4--25. 2008.
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43Book Review:Spinoza and the Sciences Marjorie Grene, Debra Nails (review)Philosophy of Science 55 (3): 480-. 1988.
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201Once More into the LabyrinthHume Studies 36 (1): 77-87. 2010.P. J. E. Kail's Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy is an excellent book, consisting—like Hume's Treatise itself—of three excellent parts. I will comment on one central aspect of its second part: its explanation of the source of the second thoughts that Hume famously expressed, with a frustrating lack of specificity, about his own initial discussion of personal identity in the Treatise.As is well known, Hume holds in the section "Of personal identity" (T 1.4.6) that a self, mind, or pers…Read more
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188Locke on Personal Identity, Consciousness, and “Fatal Errors”Philosophical Topics 31 (1-2): 95-125. 2003.
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143The representation of causation and Hume's two definitions of `cause'Noûs 27 (2): 167-190. 1993.
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135A Very Brief Summary of Hume’s MoralityHume Studies 34 (2): 253-256. 2008.Hume's Morality: Feeling and Fabrication 1 is a most useful and agreeable book. It contains a wealth of analysis, argument, and insight about many of the most central elements of the moral theory of one of the greatest moral philosophers in human history: David Hume. The book is well-conceived, well-argued, stimulating, informative, clear, precise, thorough, balanced, nuanced, and ingenious, while evincing—especially in its concluding chapter, when considering possible extensions of Hume's theor…Read more
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2Spinoza on the Essence of the Human BodyIn Olli Koistinen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s _Ethics_, Cambridge University Press. pp. 284--302. 2009.
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19Benedict De Spinoza (review)Idealistic Studies 22 (3): 246-246. 1992.Henry Allison’s Benedict de Spinoza was a clear, concise, and reliable introduction to a broad range of topics in Spinoza’s philosophy. This revised and retitled edition preserves those virtues while reflecting important developments since 1974, including Edwin Curley’s superb translations of the Ethics and the earlier works, and important books on Spinoza by Martial, Gueroult, R. J. Delahunty, and Jonathan Bennett. Of the book’s seven chapters, it is primarily the three central ones—those deali…Read more
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83Précis of Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (1). 2001.Hume’s philosophical greatness is widely acknowledged, yet the interpretation of his philosophy is the subject of considerable disagreement and confusion. Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy is intended to support critical discussion and evaluation of Hume’s philosophy by offering more accurate interpretations of his treatments of a number of central philosophical topics. The book has three main strategic goals: to isolate and explain Hume’s most fundamental philosophical aims, methods…Read more
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