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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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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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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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Le très petit et l’imperceptible dans la théorie morale de Leibniz d’après les Nouveaux Essais’ moralsIn François 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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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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32Leibniz 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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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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75The 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 Leemon McHenry & Pierfrancesco 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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458Leibniz'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
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1Locke and Sergeant on Scientific MethodIn Tom Sorell (ed.), The Rise of modern philosophy: the tension between the new and traditional philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz, Oxford University Press. pp. 231-249. 1993.
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4Kenneth Winkler (ed.) John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 494-494. 1998.
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1Descartes and LeibnizIn Brandon Look (ed.), Continuum Companion to Leibniz, Continuum. pp. 14-29. 2011.
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8An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.In his Essay, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. He shows how all our ideas are grounded in human experience and analyses the extent of our knowledge of ourselves and the world. This new abridgement uses P. H. Nidditch's authoritative text to make an accessible edition of Locke's masterpiece.
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Relational Space and Places of ValueIn Emily Brady & Pauline Phemister (eds.), Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice, Springer. pp. 17-30. 2012.This is a revised and shortened version of ‘Relational Space and Places of Value’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 14 (2011), 89-106.
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38Monadologies: an historical overviewBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6): 1023-1032. 2015.This introductory overview comprises a brief account of Leibniz's own monadology; a discussion of the reception of his philosophy up to Kant; and a short overview of the monadologies developed after Kant's first Critique, made via a summary of key points raised in this guest issue, highlighting recurrent themes, which include questions of historiography
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13Locke: his philosophical thought (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 518-20. 2000.
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15Leibniz and the EnvironmentRoutledge. 2016.The work of seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has proved inspirational to philosophers and scientists alike. In this thought-provoking book, Pauline Phemister explores the ecological potential of Leibniz’s dynamic, pluralist, panpsychist, metaphysical system. She argues that Leibniz’s philosophy has a renewed relevance in the twenty-first century, particularly in relation to the environmental change and crises that threaten human and non-human life on earth. Drawing on Leibn…Read more
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IntroductionIn Emily Brady & Pauline Phemister (eds.), Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice, Springer. 2012.
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Catherine Wilson: Leibniz's Metaphysics: a historical and comparative studyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (1): 181-188. 1996.
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1Are mind body relations natural and intelligible? Some early modern perspectivesIn Keith Allen & Tom Stoneham (eds.), Causation and Modern Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 87-103. 2010.
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Unity and Multiplicity: Leibniz's Critiques of res cogitans and res extensaIn Hans Poser (ed.), Nihil Sine Ratione: Mensch, Natur und Technik im Wirken von G. W. Leibniz Schirmherrschaft, Vii Internationaler Leibniz Kongress Proceedings, Vol 2. pp. 998-1005. 2001.
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Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead (review)Chromatikon: Annual Review of Philosophy 39 (1): 195-199. 2010.