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18Without God: gravity as a relational quality of matter in Newton's treatiseIn Dana Jalobeanu & Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond, Routledge. pp. 13--80. 2011.
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James Otteson, Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (5): 356-359. 2003.
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9Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2016.What makes for a philosophical classic? Why do some philosophical works persist over time, while others do not? The philosophical canon and diversity are topics of major debate today. This stimulating volume contains ten new essays by accomplished philosophers writing passionately about works in the history of philosophy that they feel were unjustly neglected or ignored-and why they deserve greater attention. The essays cover lesser known works by famous thinkers as well as works that were once …Read more
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117Hume's newtonianism and anti-newtonianismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.David Hume's philosophy, especially the positive project of his science of man, is often thought to be modeled on Newton's successes in natural philosophy. Hume's self-described experimental method (see the subtitle to Treatise) and the resemblance of his rules of reasoning (Treatise, 1.3.15)1 with Newton's are said to be evidence for this position (Noxon 1973; De Pierris 2002). Hume encourages this view of his project by employing Newtonian metaphors: he talks of an attraction in the mental wor…Read more
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164Spinoza on the politics of philosophical understanding Susan James and Eric Schliesser angels and philosophers: with a new interpretation of Spinoza's common notionsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 111 (3pt3): 497-518. 2011.In this paper I offer three main challenges to James (2011). All three turn on the nature of philosophy and secure knowledge in Spinoza. First, I criticize James's account of the epistemic role that experience plays in securing adequate ideas for Spinoza. In doing so I criticize her treatment of what is known as the ‘conatus doctrine’ in Spinoza in order to challenge her picture of the relationship between true religion and philosophy. Second, this leads me into a criticism of her account of the…Read more
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11“Every System of Scientific Theory Involves Philosophical Assumptions”(Talcott Parsons). The Surprising Weberian Roots to Milton Friedman's MethodologyIn Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao Gonzalo, Thomas Uebel, Stephan Hartmann & Marcel Weber (eds.), Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation, Springer. pp. 533--543. 2011.
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35Review of Knud Haakonssen (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (8). 2007.
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