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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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Peter Pett (1630-99)In Dictionary of Eighteenth Century British Philosophers, Thoemmes Press. pp. 651-2. 1999.
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456Leibniz'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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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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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.
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24Leibniz on Apperception, Consciousness, and ReflectionThe 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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2Leibnizian Pluralism and Bradleian Monism: A Question of RelationsStudia Leibnitiana. forthcoming.
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16In the present book, Pauline Phemister argues against traditional Anglo-American interpretations of Leibniz as an idealist who conceives ultimate reality as a plurality of mind-like immaterial beings and for whom physical bodies are ultimately unreal and our perceptions of them illusory. Re-reading the texts without the prior assumption of idealism allows the more material aspects of Leibniz's metaphysics to emerge. Leibniz is found to advance a synthesis of idealism and materialism. His ontolog…Read more
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Early Critics: Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizIn S. J. Savonius-Wroth, J. Walmsley & P. Schurmann (eds.), Continuum Companion to Locke, Continuum. pp. 97-100. 2010.
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1A 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. 2007.
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1Monads and MachinesIn J. E. H. Smith & Ohad Nachtomy (eds.), Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz, Springer. pp. 39-60. 2011.
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Leibniz, Freedom of Will and RationalityStudia Leibnitiana 23 (1): 25-39. 1991.Dieser Aufsatz hält es für angeraten, einen bisher vernachlässigten Aspekt der Leibnizschen Gedanken bezüglich der Willensfreiheit, nämlich die Rolle der Rationalität, näher zu betrachten. Von den drei für die Freiheit notwendigen Bedingungen gehört nur die Rationalität all denjenigen Menschen, die frei sind, und ihnen ausschließlich an. Kontingenz und Spontaneität können die Handlungen unfreier Menschen kennzeichnen. Die Rolle der Rationalität erscheint in klarem licht, wenn man sie in die Reih…Read more
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John Locke: Essay on Human Understanding (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 493-95. 1998.