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1Peter Dear, The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press , xii+242 pp., $27.50 , $17.00 (review)Philosophy of Science 78 (3): 527-531. 2011.
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1Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 64 (5). 1991.
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20Understanding Interaction: What Descartes Should Have Told ElisabethSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 15-32. 1983.
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6Learning from the past: Reflections on the role of history in the philosophy of scienceSynthese 67 (1). 1986.In recent years philosophers of science have turned away from positivist programs for explicating scientific rationality through detailed accounts of scientific procedure and turned toward large-scale accounts of scientific change. One important motivation for this was better fit with the history of science. Paying particular attention to the large-scale theories of Lakatos and Laudan I argue that the history of science is no better accommodated by the new large-scale theories than it was by the…Read more
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6Dead Force, Infinitesimals, and the Mathematicization of NatureIn Douglas Jesseph & Ursula Goldenbaum (eds.), Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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Descartes' physicsIn John Cottingham (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Descartes, Cambridge University Press. pp. 286--334. 1992.
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume Iv (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2012.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.
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3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.
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What Leibniz really said?In Daniel Garber & Béatrice Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns, Princeton University Press. 2008.
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Descartes and Spinoza on Persistence and ConantusStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 10 43-67. 1995.
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1Leibniz on body, force and extension 1Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (3): 363-384. 2005.
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3Should Spinoza have published his philosophy?In Charles Huenemann (ed.), Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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6Kant and the Early Moderns (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2008."This book is a very important contribution to the study of the history of modern philosophy.
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3Robert Merrihew Adams and LeibnizThe Leibniz Review 22 1-8. 2012.This essay reviews Robert Merrihew Adams’ approaches to the philosophy of Leibniz, both his general methodological approaches, and some of the main themes of his work. It attempts to assess his contribution both to the study of Leibniz and to the history of philosophy more generally
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7Geometry and Monadology: Leibniz's Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space, by Vincenzo De RisiMind 119 (474): 472-478. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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1Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 3 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2006.Oxford University Press is proud to present the third volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries---the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are importan…Read more
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9Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian ScienceCambridge University Press. 2000.This volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the pre-eminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian program illuminate each other, a question rarely treated in the existing literature. Amongst the specific topics discussed in the essays are Descartes' celebrated method, his demand for …Read more
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3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume Iii (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2006.Table of Contents Note from the Editors 1. Deflating Descartes’ Causal Axiom, Tad Schmaltz 2. The Dustbin Theory of Mind: A Cartesian Legacy?, Lawrence Nolan and John Whipple 3. Is Descartes a Libertarian?, C. P. Ragland 4. The Scholastic Resources for Descartes’ Concept of God as Causa Sui, Richard Lee 5. Hobbesian Mechanics, Doug Jesseph 6. Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas: Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities, Dan Kaufman 7. Atomism, Monism, and Causation in the Natural Philosophy of M…Read more
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3La physique métaphysique de DescartesPresses Universitaires de France - PUF. 1999.La physique métaphysique de Descartes permet de synthétiser plusieurs aspects de la philosophie naturelle de Descartes et de comprendre pourquoi elle repose sur une approche métaphysique. Cet ouvrage, qui n'a jusqu'à aujourd'hui aucun équivalent même en France, se présente comme une sorte de manuel de physique cartésienne, une introduction à sa philosophie mécaniste, telle que lui-même, ou un homme de son époque, bienveillant, mais non dénué de réserves critiques, l'aurait présentée. C'est, en e…Read more
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3The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 2 Volume Paperback Set (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge histories of philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the v…Read more
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6Descartes and Method in 1637PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 225-236. 1988.This paper attempts to characterize the method that Descartes put forward in the Discours de la methode of 1637 and the earlier Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii. It is argued that because if important changes in Descartes ' scientific and epistemological programs, Descartes abandons the method of his earlier years at just the moment that he makes it public in the Discours
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6Leibniz: Body, Substance, MonadOxford University Press. 2009.Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances.
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