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66Civility and sociability: Hobbes on man and citizenJournal of the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 209-215. 1980.
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554Berkeley's Doctrine of Mind and the “Black List Hypothesis”: A DialogueSouthern Journal of Philosophy 51 (1): 24-41. 2013.Clues about what Berkeley was planning to say about mind in his now-lost second volume of the Principles seem to abound in his Notebooks. However, commentators have been reluctant to use his unpublished entries to explicate his remarks about spiritual substances in the Principles and Dialogues for three reasons. First, it has proven difficult to reconcile the seemingly Humean bundle theory of the self in the Notebooks with Berkeley's published characterization of spirits as “active beings or pri…Read more
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Ramist Dialectic in Leibniz's Early ThoughtIn Mark Kulstad, Mogens Laerke & David Snyder (eds.), The philosophy of the young Leibniz, Steiner. pp. 59-66. 2009.
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14Myth and modern philosophyTemple University Press. 1990.A study of the historiographic significance and use of mythic or fabular thinking in Bacon, Descartes, Mandeville, Vico, Herder, and others.
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24The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine SemioticsIndiana University Press. 1994.An examination of Edwards’ ontology and his ideas on creation, God, sin, freedom, virtue, and beauty.
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19Seventeenth-Century Scholastic Treatments of TimeJournal of the History of Ideas 42 (4): 587-606. 1981.
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562Berkeley, Suárez, and the Esse-Existere DistinctionAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 74 (4): 621-636. 2000.For Berkeley, a thing's existence 'esse' is nothing more than its being perceived 'as that thing'. It makes no sense to ask (with Samuel Johnson) about the 'esse' of the mind or the specific act of perception, for that would be like asking what it means for existence to exist. Berkeley's "existere is percipi or percipere" (NB 429) thus carefully adopts the scholastic distinction between 'esse' and 'existere' ignored by Locke and others committed to a substantialist notion of mind. Following the …Read more
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51Berkeley's 'Alciphron': English Text and Essays in Interpretation (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (3). 2011.
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74Metaphor in the Historiography of PhilosophyClio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 15 (2): 191-210. 1986.
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63Vico's historicism and the ontology of argumentsJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (3): 431-446. 1995.Vico's historicist claims (1) that different ages are intelligible only in their own terms and (2) that the certainty and authority of history depend on its narrative formulation seem at odds with his doctrines of ideal eternal history and divine providence. He resolves these issues, however, in his treatment of ideal eternal history by using the distinction between the certain and the true to show how rhetorical expression generates meaning in and as history. Specifically, by appealing to an on…Read more
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624Edwards' OccasionalismIn Don Schweitzer (ed.), Jonathan Edwards as Contemporary, Peter Lang. pp. 1-14. 2010.Instead of focusing on the Malebranche-Edwards connection regarding occasionalism as if minds are distinct from the ideas they have, I focus on how finite minds are particular expressions of God's will that there be the distinctions by which ideas are identified and differentiated. This avoids problems, created in the accounts of Fiering, Lee, and especially Crisp, about the inherently idealist character of Edwards' occasionalism.
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8John Toland: His Methods, Manners, and MindMcGill-Queen's University Press. 1984.Drawing on a variety of published and unpublished material representing Toland's broad interests, Professor Daniel reveals a common theme emphasizing man's capacity for independent thought on basic philosophical, religious, and political issues. Roughly chronological, Daniel's treatment describes Toland's progressive refinement of this fundamental aspect of his thought. After examining, in his early works, the process whereby religion becomes mystified, Toland turned to biography, demonstrating …Read more
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36Ethical Theory and Journalistic EthicsInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 1 (1): 19-25. 1982.
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Some Conflicting Assumptions of Journalistic EthicsIn Elliot D. Cohen (ed.), Philosophical Issues in Journalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 50--58. 1992.
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17Current continental theory and modern philosophy (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 2005.For decades Continental theorists from Derrida to Deleuze have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern philosophers-studies that have opened up new ways to think about figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. This volume, for the first time, gives this work its due. A systematic rereading of early modern philosophers in the light of recent Continental philosophy, it exposes overlooked but critical aspects of sixteenth- …Read more
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1243Berkeley's pantheistic discourseInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 49 (3): 179-194. 2001.Berkeley's immaterialism has more in common with views developed by Henry More, the mathematician Joseph Raphson, John Toland, and Jonathan Edwards than those of thinkers with whom he is commonly associated (e.g., Malebranche and Locke). The key for recognizing their similarities lies in appreciating how they understand St. Paul's remark that in God "we live and move and have our being" as an invitation to think to God as the space of discourse in which minds and ideas are identified. This way o…Read more
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43Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 410-412. 2008.
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