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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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27IdeasIn 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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1On Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist by Robert Merrihew AdamsEuropean Journal of Philosophy 5 97-100. 1997.
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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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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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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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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.