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3Descartes and occasionalismIn Steven Nadler (ed.), Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 9--26. 1993.
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13Mihnea Dobre and Tammy Nyden, eds. Cartesian Empiricisms. Dordrecht: Springer, 2013. Pp. xiii+326. $129.00Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 5 (2): 374-377. 2015.
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1Could Spinoza Have Presented the Ethics as the True Content of the Bible?Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 4 1-50. 2008.
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5Leibniz in English: A Brief and Biased HistoryIn Wenchao Li (ed.), Komma Und Kathedrale: Tradition, Bedeutung Und Herausforderung der Leibniz-Edition, De Gruyter. pp. 177-186. 2012.
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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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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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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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49Descartes 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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61Geneviéve Rodis-Lewis, Descartes: His Life and ThoughtsBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 11 (2). 1999.none
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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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Descartes, Method and the Role of ExperimentIn John Cottingham (ed.), Descartes, Oxford University Press. 1986.
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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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429Understanding 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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