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The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study. By Richard Mason (review)The European Legacy 7 (1): 115-115. 2002.
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4Hume on Testimony Concerning MiraclesIn Peter Millican (ed.), Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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11Encyclopedia of empiricism (edited book)Greenwood Press. 1997.Featuring more than 150 articles by more than 70 leading scholars, this is the first encyclopedia devoted to empiricism. The _Encyclopedia of Empiricism_ serves four main purposes. First, it provides a convenient source for scholars and students seeking information on particular figures, topics, or doctrines, specifically in their relation to empiricism as an historical movement or to empiricism as a broader tendency of thought. Because each entry contains a brief bibliography of primary and sec…Read more
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1Hey, What's the Big Idea? Berkeley and Hume on Extension, Local Conjunction, and the Immateriality of the SoulIn Stefan Storrie (ed.), Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays, Oxford University Press. pp. 191-204. 2018.
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1Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern RationalismIn Rocco J. Gennaro & Charles Huenemann (eds.), New essays on the rationalists, Oxford University Press. 1999.This chapter seeks to establish that Spinoza accepts the legitimacy of many teleological explanations; that in two important respects, Leibniz's view of teleology is not more, and perhaps even less, Aristotleian than Descartes's; and that among Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, it is Spinoza who holds the view of teleology closest to that of Aristotle. The arguments for derive from examinations of Spinoza's doctrine of conatus, critical analysis of Jonathan Bennett's proposed grounds for interpre…Read more
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Reason, Normativity, and Hume’s “Title Principle”In Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of David Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.David Hume’s “Title Principle,” as it has come to be called, is a specification of the normative scope of reason: “Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to. Where it does not, it never can have any title to operate on us.” This chapter seeks to answer four central questions about the principle. First, what does Hume mean by “reason” in it? Second, what particular kinds of beliefs does it mandate or disallow? Third, what kind of normativity is expr…Read more
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38The literary arts in Hume's science of the fancyKriterion: Journal of Philosophy 44 (108): 161-179. 2003.Philosophers have long disagreed about whether poetry, drama, and other literary arts are important to philosophy and among those who believe that they are important, explanations of that importance have differed greatly. This paper aims to explain and illustrate some of the reasons why Hume found literature to be an important topic for philosophy and philosophers. Philosophy, he holds, can help to explain general and specific literary phenomena, to ground the science of criticism, and to sugges…Read more
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361Reasons to act and believe: naturalism and rational justification in Hume’s philosophical projectPhilosophical Studies 132 (1): 1-16. 2007.Is Hume a naturalist? Does he regard all or nearly all beliefs and actions as rationally unjustified? In order to settle these questions, it is necessary to examine their key terms and to understand the character-especially the normative character-of Hume's philosophical project. This paper argues that Hume is a naturalist-and, in particular, both a moral and an epistemic naturalist-in quite robust ways; and that Hume can properly regard many actions and beliefs as "rationally justified" in seve…Read more
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43Priority and Separability in Hume’s EmpiricismArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 67 (3): 270-288. 1985.
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54Hume 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. 1996.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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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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67Replies (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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34Aaron V. Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza's Method (review)Philosophical Review 118 (2): 241-244. 2009.
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70Leibniz, 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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36Millican’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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211The 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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242Cognition 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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45Book Review:Spinoza and the Sciences Marjorie Grene, Debra Nails (review)Philosophy of Science 55 (3): 480-. 1988.
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