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9Chapter 4. What Leibniz Really Said?In Daniel Garber & Béatrice Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns, Princeton University Press. pp. 64-78. 2008.
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8La 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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8Who was that masked man?British Journal for the History of Science 31 (1): 55-62. 1998.Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Pp. xx+499. ISBN 0-19-823994-7. £25.00.Stephen Gaukroger's new biography of Descartes is a major accomplishment. Gaukroger offers the reader an overview of Descartes' life and works, with healthy doses of intellectual background thrown in for good measure. It should have a major impact on Cartesian studies, both within the history of philosophy and within the history of science
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7Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (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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6Experiment, Community, and the Constitution of Nature in the Seventeenth CenturyPerspectives on Science 3 (2): 173-205. 1995.Recent literature has explored at some length the transition between individual observations and the experimental facts that they are supposed to establish, emphasizing particularly the social dimension of this question. In this article I examine some crucial stages in the history of this problem, in particular, the way in which the establishment of experimental facts became social. I begin with a brief discussion of experimental facthood in late Renaissance thought before turning to Bacon and D…Read more
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6Apples, Oranges, and the Role of Gassendi’s Atomism in Seventeenth-Century SciencePerspectives on Science 3 (4): 425-428. 1995.
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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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5Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume I (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 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 period 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 early modern thought. The core of the subject …Read more
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5Historicizing NoveltyIn Susan Neiman, Peter Galison & Wendy Doniger (eds.), What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History, De Gruyter. pp. 186-194. 2016.
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5The mechanical (or corpuscular philosophy) has been well-established as a historiographical category for some years now. While it certainly began as an actor’s category, it has slipped into being something else, a kind of broad catch-all category that is taken to include most of those who opposed the Aristotelian philosophy of the schools throughout the entire seventeenth century, part of a broad master narrative about the demise of the scholastic Aristotelian philosophy of the schools and the r…Read more
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4Notice of Christia Mercer, Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and Development (review)The Leibniz Review 10 149-150. 2000.Christia Mercer’s magnum opus, Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and Development, long awaited, is finally about to appear from Cambridge University Press. It was well worth the wait. The book is impressive in the wealth of detailed argumentation and historical background that fills the work. Mercer’s general thesis is still that Leibniz’s mature thought emerges from a view that Leibniz shares with his teachers, an eclectic philosophy that sees truth lurking in many places, and that he sees the …Read more
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4Oxford 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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4The 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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4Leibniz 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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3Should Spinoza have published his philosophy?In Charles Huenemann (ed.), Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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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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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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1Leibniz and Fardella: Body, Substance and IdealismIn Paul Lodge (ed.), Leibniz and His Correspondents, Uk ;cambridge University Press. pp. 123. 2004.
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1Knowing mind through knowing body : Spinoza on causal knowledge of the self and the external worldIn Dominik Perler & Sebastian Bender (eds.), Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge. 2020.
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1God, Laws, and the Order of Nature: Descartes and Leibniz, Hobbes, and SpinozaIn Eric Watkins (ed.), The Divine Order, The Human Order, and the Order of Nature, Oxford University Press. pp. 45-66. 2013.
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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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1RationalismIn Robert Audi (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--771. 1999.
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