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32Spinoza-Malebranche: à la croisée des interprétations ed. by Raffaele Carbone, et alJournal of the History of Philosophy 57 (1): 170-171. 2019.This collection includes material from the international conference, “Spinoza-Malebranche,” held in 2015, first at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and subsequently at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. The justification for the volume, as indicated in Chantel Jaquet’s preface, is that the relations between Spinoza and Malebranche have not recently drawn the sort of attention from scholars that the relations of each to Descartes have received. Of course, there is the question of why t…Read more
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30Malebranche on Ideas and the Vision in GodIn Steven Nadler (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 59--86. 2000.
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28Cartesian Truth (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (3): 531-533. 1999.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Cartesian Truth by Thomas C. VinciTad M. SchmaltzThomas C. Vinci. Cartesian Truth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 270. Cloth, $45.00.The book jacket copy claims that Cartesian Truth merits “serious consideration by both contemporary analytic philosophers and postmodern thinkers.” Yet the work is written in a decidedly analytic idiom, and it is keyed primarily to recent analytic discussions of [End Page …Read more
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27Quantity and Extension in Suárez and DescartesVivarium 58 (3): 168-190. 2020.This paper compares the development of the notion of continuous quantity in the work of Francisco Suárez and René Descartes. The discussion begins with a consideration of Suárez’s rejection of the view – common to ‘realists’ such as Thomas Aquinas and ‘nominalists’ such as William of Ockham – that quantity is inseparable from the extension of material integral parts. Crucial here is Suárez’s view that quantified extension exhibits a kind of impenetrability that distinguishes it from other kinds …Read more
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26Malebranche's Cartesianism and Lockean ColorsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 12 (4): 387-403. 1995.
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24From Causes to LawsIn Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Oxford University Press. 2011.This article examines the transition from causes to laws in research during the early modern period in Europe. It discusses Stillman Drake's claim that the search for causes of events in nature that guided science from the time of Aristotle was superseded at the dawn of modern science starting with the work of Galileo. However, there are complications for the suggestion that there was a process by which causes gave way to laws in science. This suggests that Drake's remark that there has been a p…Read more
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23French Cartesian Scholasticism: Remarks on Descartes and the First CartesiansPerspectives on Science 26 (5): 579-598. 2018.In a 1669 letter to his mentor Thomasius, Leibniz writes that "hardly any of the Cartesians have added anything to the discoveries of their master" insofar as they "have published only paraphrases of their leader."1 The book that is the focus of my remarks here—Roger Ariew's Descartes and the First Cartesians —shows that Leibniz was most certainly incorrect. In particular, Ariew draws attention to the fact that there was a concerted effort to present a new sort of Cartesianism that conforms to t…Read more
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23Introduction: Material Substance and Quantity, from Suárez to LeibnizVivarium 58 (3): 141-142. 2020.
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22The Located Subject of Thought: Hobbes, Descartes, MoreRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 113 (1): 3-19. 2022.Hobbes s’est opposé à Descartes en affirmant que l’on doit inférer du cogito que le sujet de la pensée est matériel. Le présent article commence par examiner cet argument fameux. Selon une interprétation courante, l’argument repose sur la théorie des idées de Hobbes. Cependant, cette interprétation a été contestée dans la littérature récente. Un examen de ce débat nous conduit à examiner un autre argument selon lequel tout sujet doit être localisé dans l’univers au moyen de son extension. Ce nou…Read more
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20Spinoza's MereologyIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.Spinoza seems to argue both that “God or Nature” is mereologically simple, and that this being is mereologically complex insofar as it is composed of parts. This chapter proposes on Spinoza's behalf a resolution of this antinomy. This resolution focuses on Spinoza's mereology of the material world. It offers an alternative interpretation according to which Spinoza adheres both to the indivisibility of extended substance and to the reality of the finite modal parts that compose an infinite modal …Read more
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17Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian PhilosophyScarecrow Press. 2003.This is a dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy, primarily covering philosophy in the 17th century, with a chronology and biography of Descartes's life and times and a bibliography of primary and secondary works related to Descartes and to Cartesians.
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14Integrating history and philosophy of science: problems and prospects (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2011.Though the publication of Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart. Recently, however, there has been a series of workshops on both sides of the Atlantic (called '&HPS') to bring historians and philosophers of science together to discuss integrative approaches. This is therefore an especially appropriate tim…Read more
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14Edward Patrick Mahoney, 1932-2009Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 82 (5): 204. 2009.
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13Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French ConstructionsOxford University Press USA. 2016.There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of French historians of Cartesian philosophy, however, there has been no fully contextualized comparative examination of the various receptions of Descartes in different portions of early modern Europe. This study addresses the need for a more current understanding of these receptions by considering the different constructions of Descartes's thought tha…Read more
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12Efficient Causation: A History (edited book)Oup Usa. 2014.This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery in Ancient Greece, through its development in late antiquity, the medieval period, and modern philosophy, to its use in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science
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11The a to Z of Descartes and Cartesian PhilosophyScarecrow Press. 2010.The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and cross-reference dictionary entries Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings, as well as entries on those who supported him, those who criticized him, those who corrected him, and those who together formed one of the major movements in philosophy, Cartesianism
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10Gueroult on Spinoza and the EthicsRevue Internationale de Philosophie 291 (1): 51-62. 2020.Cet article concerne l’application de la méthode « dianoématique », ou « étude des doctrines », dans le commentaire important de Martial Gueroult aux deux premières parties de l’ Éthique de Spinoza. Gueroult met l’accent sur deux affirmations distinctes dans les deux volumes de ce commentaire. La première affirmation, tirée du premier volume, est que Spinoza adopte une version du monisme dans la première partie de l’ Éthique selon laquelle Dieu, en tant que substance infinie, consiste en une uni…Read more
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5The Early Dutch Reception of L’HommeIn Stephen Gaukroger & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), Descartes' Treatise on Man and Its Reception, Springer. 2016.This is a consideration of the connection of L’Homme to two very different forms of early modern Dutch Cartesianism. On the one hand, this work was central to a dispute between Descartes and his former disciple, Henricus Regius. In particular, Descartes charged that Regius had plagiarized L’Homme in order to distance himself from a form of Cartesian physiology in Regius that is not founded on a proof of the spirituality of the human soul. Despite this repudiation, Regius remained a prominent pro…Read more
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5Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe (edited book)Routledge. 2005.Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in specific French, Dutch, Italian and English contexts and the last of which concerns the reception of Descartes among female philosophers
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3Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to RegiusIn M. A. Stewart (ed.), Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy, Clarendon Press. 1997.
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3The Disappearance of Analogy in Descartes, Spinoza, and RégisCanadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 85-113. 2000.
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2Seventeenth‐Century Responses to the MeditationsIn Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations, Blackwell. 2006.
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1Nicolas MalebrancheIn Steven Nadler (ed.), A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Life and Works Vision in God and Ideas Cartesian Matter and the Soul Occasionalism and Theodicy Influences.
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Deflating Descartes' Causal AxiomIn Daniel Garber & Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 3, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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Deflating Descartes' causal axiomIn Daniel Garber & Steven M. Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--1. 2003.
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