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Franco Burgersdijk (1590-1635): neo-Aristotelianism in Leiden (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (2): 165-67. 1994.
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22Leibniz on Apperception, Consciousness, and Reflection (review)The Leibniz Review 2 10-11. 1992.I have awaited Professor Kulstad’s new book since Philosophia first announced its forthcoming publication in 1989. The wait perhaps increased my expectations, but now, with book in hand, I am in no way disappointed. The book concerns Leibniz’s views on apperception, consciousness and reflection. These concepts play important roles in Leibniz’s metaphysics. Scholars on the continent at the turn of the century recognized this, but anglo-american Leibnizians generally did not, although recently the…Read more
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6Leibniz and the elements of compound bodiesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.No abstract
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Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists in the Debate over Plastic NaturesIn Pauline Phemister & Stuart Brown (eds.), Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, Springer. pp. 95-110. 2007.
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3'All the Time and Everywhere Everything's the Same as Here': The Principle of Uniformity in the Correspondence Between Leibniz and Lady MashamIn Paul Lodge (ed.), Leibniz and His Correspondents, Uk ;cambridge University Press. pp. 193-213. 2004.The privacy, real or illusory, afforded by the personal letter allows each participant the philosophical freedom to explore a range of possible opinions, to experiment with different ideas, to hesitate, and to change his or her mind in ways that published articles and books discourage. The private letter also allows the use of language and style of writing to be altered to suit the particular recipient. This is especially evident in Leibniz's correspondence with Des Bosses. Sometimes, however, t…Read more
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2Exploring Leibniz’s Kingdoms: A Philosophical Analysis of Nature and GraceEcotheology, 7:2 7 (2): 126-145. 2003.
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11Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in Theory and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2012.This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called ‘value-space’. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, resid…Read more
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1Progress and perfection of world and individual in Leibniz’s philosophy, 1694-1697In H. Breger, J. Herbst & S. Erdner (eds.), VIII Internationaler Leibniz Kongress proceedings, vol 2, G. W, Leibniz Gesellschaft. pp. 805-812. 2006.
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Leibniz on Apperception, Consciousness and Reflection (review)Leibniz Society of North America Newsletter 2 10-11. 1992.
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8Locke: His Philosophical Thought (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 518-520. 2000.
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33IdeasIn Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe, Oxford University Press. 2011.This article examines the history of ideas during the early modern period. René Descartes extended the term idea to include sensation, imagination, and memory and located ideas in the human intellect. Not all philosophers agreed with him, and among the most prominent resistors were Baruch Spinoza and Nicolas Malebranche. Spinoza viewed ideas as modes of God insofar as God possesses the attribute of thought. Malebranche too insisted on retaining the pre-Cartesian opinion that ideas exist in God a…Read more
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Monadologies. A Special Guest Issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6) (edited book)Taylor & Francis. 2015.
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Can Perceptions and Motions be Harmonised?In R. S. Woolhouse (ed.), Leibniz's 'New System', 1695, Leo S. Olschki. pp. 141-168. 1996.
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Le très petit et l’imperceptible dans la théorie morale de Leibniz d’après les Nouveaux Essais’ moralsIn Francois Duchesneau & Jérémie Griard (eds.), Leibniz selon les Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement, Editions Fides & Librarie Philosophie. pp. 229-248. 2006.This is the French translation and revision of the final chapter of P. Phemister, Leibniz and the Natural World (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005)
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1On Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist by Robert Merrihew AdamsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 5 97-100. 1997.
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11Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (edited book)Springer. 2007.This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz’s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries.
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Leibniz and the English-Speaking World: an introductory overviewIn Pauline Phemister & Stuart Brown (eds.), Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, Springer. pp. 1-18. 2007.
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The Souls of SeedsIn Adrian Nita (ed.), Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms: Between Continuity and Transformation, Springer. pp. 125-141. 2015.
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Peter Pett (1630-99)In Dictionary of Eighteenth Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press. pp. 651-2. 1999.
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5The rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza, and LeibnizPolity Press. 2006.Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz stand out as the great 17th century rationalist philosophers who sought to construct a philosophical system in which theological and philosophical foundations serve to explain the physical, mental and moral universe. In her new book Pauline Phemister explores their contribution to the development of modern philosophy.
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A Leibnizian God of Metaphysics?In L. McHenry & P. Basile (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, Ontos Verlag. pp. 211-227. 2007.
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468Leibniz's Monadological Positive AestheticsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6): 1214-1234. 2015.One of the most intriguing – and arguably counter-intuitive – doctrines defended by environmental philosophers is that of positive aesthetics, the thesis that all of nature is beautiful. The doctrine has attained philosophical respectability only comparatively recently, thanks in no small part to the work of Allen Carlson, one of its foremost defenders. In this paper, we argue that the doctrine can be found much earlier in the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who devised and defended a version …Read more