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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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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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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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439Leibniz'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 Sorrell (ed.), The Rise of Modern Philosophy., 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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37Monadologies: 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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23Locke: 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