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112. Explaining Explanation and the Multiplicity of AttributesIn Robert Schnepf & Michael Hampe (eds.), Baruch de Spinoza: Ethik in Geometrischer Ordnung Dargestellt, Akademie Verlag. pp. 17-35. 2006.
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9Spinoza's Metaphysical PsychologyIn Don Garrett (ed.), , Cambridge University Press. pp. 192--266. 1996.This paper analyzes and evaluates Spinoza way of carrying out his naturalistic program in psychology. I begin by examining Spinoza’s general metaphysical doctrine according to which each thing strives to preserve itself. While this doctrine cannot be true in its unqualified form, it does receive some support from Spinoza’s views on the nature of complex individuals. I then explore the problematic way in which Spinoza applies the doctrine of self -preservation to human psychology. The paper goes …Read more
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8Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in DescartesIn Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes, Blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains section titled: Two Revolutionary Humean Steps Occasionalism as an Heir to Aristotelianism Descartes's Causal Principle and Intelligibility Body‐Body Causation Causation Between Minds and Bodies References and Further Reading.
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6René DescartesIn Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: The Metaphysics of Matter The Metaphysics of Mind The Metaphysics of God God, Doubt, and Certainty Descartes' Reception.
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3Mental Content and Skepticism in Descartes and SpinozaStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 10 19-42. 1995.
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2The elusiveness of the one and the many in Spinoza: substance, attribute, and modeIn Jack Stetter & Charles Ramond (eds.), Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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2Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in SpinozaRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (4): 555-557. 1996.
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1Determinism and Human FreedomIn Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 1998.
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Taking the fourth : steps toward a new (old) reading of DescartesIn Peter A. French (ed.), Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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The elusiveness of the one and the many in Spinoza: substance, attribute, and modeIn Charles Ramond & Jack Stetter (eds.), Spinoza in 21st-Century American and French Philosophy, . 2019.
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If a Body Meet a BodyIn Rocco J. Gennaro & Charles Huenemann (eds.), New essays on the rationalists, Oxford University Press. 1999.What are Descartes's criteria for substance, and how many material objects meet them? A passage in the Synopsis of the Meditations has led some to portray him as a monist about extended substance and others to say that he does not even use “extended substance” as a count term. After considering Descartes's two criteria for substance, as well as his account of transubstantiation, we see that these answers are mistaken. Descartes countenances an infinity of extended substances. These are quantitie…Read more
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"If a Body Meets a Body": Descartes on Body-Body CausationIn Rocco J. Gennaro & Charles Huenemann (eds.), New essays on the rationalists, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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