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9Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 64 (5). 1991.
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46Understanding Interaction: What Descartes Should Have Told ElisabethSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 15-32. 1983.
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79Learning 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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19Dead 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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6IntroductionIn Daniel Garber & Béatrice Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-8. 2008.
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18Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy will focus 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 will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating ear…Read more
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105Descartes, The Aristotelians, and The Revolution That Did Not Happen In 1637The Monist 71 (4): 471-486. 1988.Descartes is, for us, the father of modern philosophy, the figure with whom the history of our philosophy begins, the philosopher who ended scholasticism once and for all and turned aside the excesses of Renaissance thought. And the Discours de la méthode and Essais is the work in which Descartes seems to have declared his revolution, and announced to the world his independence from the history of philosophy. In the opening pages of his first published writing, Descartes wrote
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48Descartes among the NovatoresRes Philosophica 92 (1): 1-19. 2015.In the Discours de la méthode, Descartes presents himself as a heroic figure, standing up against the current Aristotelian orthodoxy in philosophy, and offering something new, a mechanist physics and the metaphysics to go along with it. But Descartes was by no means the only challenger to Aristotelian natural philosophy: by Descartes’s day, there were many. Descartes was read as one of this group, generally called the novatores (innovators) in Latin, and often severely criticized for their advoc…Read more
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3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume Ii (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2005.Oxford University Press is proud to present the second 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 will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are impor…Read more
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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy: Volume 1 (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.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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48A Point of Order: Analysis, Synthesis, and Descartes's PrinciplesArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 64 (2): 136-147. 1982.
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34Leibniz on Form and MatterEarly Science and Medicine 2 (3): 326-351. 1997.This paper discusses the Aristotelian notions of matter and form as they are treated in the philosophy of Leibniz. The discussion is divided into three parts, corresponding to three periods in Leibniz's development. In the earliest period, as exemplified in a 1669 letter to his former mentor Jakob Thomasius, Leibniz argues that matter and form can be given straightforward interpretations in terms of size and shape, basic categories in the new mechanical philosophy. In Leibniz's middle years, on …Read more
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Leibniz and idealismIn Donald Rutherford & J. A. Cover (eds.), Leibniz: nature and freedom, Oxford University Press. pp. 95--107. 2005.
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume V (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents 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.
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60Geneviéve Rodis-Lewis, Descartes: His Life and ThoughtsBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 11 (2). 1999.none
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10Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume VI (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents 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.
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Descartes, Method and the Role of ExperimentIn John Cottingham (ed.), Descartes, Oxford University Press. 1986.
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428Understanding interaction: What Descartes should have told ElisabethSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 15-32. 1983.
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51Descartes and Spinoza on Persistance and ConatusStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 10 43-68. 1994.
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57Notice of Christia Mercer, Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and DevelopmentThe Leibniz Review 10 149-150. 2000.
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131Superheroes in the History of Philosophy: Spinoza, Super-RationalistJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 507-521. 2015.everyone loves superheroes. superheroes, of course, have incredible powers; they can leap tall buildings in a single bound, excel in combat, and have X-ray vision. But, in addition, superheroes have a kind of simplicity of motive and focus that makes them pure and comprehensible in the way in which the people we actually know rarely are. For Superman it is about Truth, Justice, and the American Way. For Batman it is all about fighting evil: defeating the Joker, the Riddler, and other nefarious c…Read more
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A different Descartes: Descartes and the programme for a mathematical physics in his correspondenceIn John Schuster, Stephen Gaukroger & John Sutton (eds.), Descartes' Natural Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 113--130. 2000.
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