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15Chapter 10. Should 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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15Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's EthicsPhilosophical Review 100 (3): 512. 1991.
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15Part of Nature: Self-Knowledge in Spinoza's "Ethics" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2): 299-301. 1996.BOOK REVIEWS ~99 edge of Hebrew and Hebrew texts, from encounters with Iberian Jews, and from polemical Christian concerns. The changing situation within German Christendom greatly influenced the way Jews, their history, and their customs were seen. Arthur Williamson, an expert in Scottish intellectual history, treats a somewhat amazing phenomenon: the Scots from the Reformation onward saw themselves as Jews, and developed a Judaized political history. From sometime in the late Middle Ages, the …Read more
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12Benedict 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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12The Cambridge companion to Nietzsche (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a group of essays explo…Read more
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11Spinoza's Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and ModeIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.Commentators have offered interpretations over many years of the nature and status of the attributes in Spinoza's metaphysics, but attributes are best understood as diverse manners of existence, so that a substance having more than one attribute exists in more than one manner. Spinoza's monistic metaphysics of substance and mode allows him to offer an appealing conception of the nature of space. Spinoza's monistic metaphysics provides the basis for a positive account of how particular things con…Read more
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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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9Liberty and Suspension in Locke's Theory of the WillIn Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Wiley. 2015.The nature and consistency of John Locke's views about liberty and suspension, as well as their bearing on what is now called determinism, remain matters of controversy and sometimes, despair. This chapter explains what it is that "determines the will" according to John Locke. It begins by explaining the central terms Locke employs and the meanings he assigns them. Next, the chapter cites and discusses some of the main doctrines that he formulates using that terminology. In light of these explan…Read more
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9Hume's Theory of IdeasIn Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Basic Distinctions Basic Principles References Further Reading.
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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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5Modalities: Philosophical Essays (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (3): 668-668. 1995.This is a collection of fifteen of Ruth Barcan Marcus's most important and influential essays, drawn from a wide variety of sources. The earliest of these essays, the classic "Modalities and Intensional Languages," was originally published in 1961, although the present collection adds, as an appendix, an excerpt from a 1948 review of Smullyan. The most recent essay in the collection, "Some Revisionary Proposals about Belief and Believing," was first published in 1990.
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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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2Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s PhilosophyPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 191-196. 1997.Book symposium
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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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1Truth, method, and correspondence in Spinoza and LeibnizStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 6 (n/a): 13. 1990.
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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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Don Garrett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. (edited book)Cambridge UP. 2021.
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Pyrrhonian skepticism and humean skepticism : belief, evidence, and causal powerIn Justin Vlasits & Katja Maria Vogt (eds.), Epistemology after Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press. 2020.
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The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. 2nd edition (edited book)Cambriddge University Press. forthcoming.
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Hume's system of the sciencesIn Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics (1677)In Jorge J. E. Gracia, Gregory M. Reichberg & Bernard N. Schumacher (eds.), The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide, Blackwell. pp. 245. 2003.
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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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