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59The Metaphysics of Rest in Descartes and MalebrancheRes Philosophica 92 (1): 21-40. 2015.I consider a somewhat obscure but important feature of Descartes’s physics that concerns the notion of the “force of rest.” Contrary to a prominent occasionalist interpretation of Descartes’s physics, I argue that Descartes himself attributes real forces to resting bodies. I also take his account of rest to conflict with the view that God conserves the world by “re-creating” it anew at each moment. I turn next to the role of rest in Malebranche. Malebranche takes Descartes to endorse his own occ…Read more
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77Malebranche's theory of the soul: a Cartesian interpretationOxford University Press. 1996.This book offers a provocative interpretation of the theory of the soul in the writings of the French Cartesian, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715). Though recent work on Malebranche's philosophy of mind has tended to emphasize his account of ideas, Schmaltz focuses rather on his rejection of Descartes' doctrine that the mind is better known than the body. In particular, he considers and defends Malebranche's argument that this rejection has a Cartesian basis. Schmaltz reveals that this argument no…Read more
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44Galileo and Descartes on Copernicanism and the cause of the tidesStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 51 70-81. 2015.
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116Descartes and Malebranche on mind and mind-body unionPhilosophical Review 101 (2): 281-325. 1992.
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117Platonism and Descartes' View of Immutable EssencesArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 73 (2): 129-170. 1991.
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26Malebranche's Cartesianism and Lockean ColorsHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 12 (4): 387-403. 1995.
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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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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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