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3Spinoza's Monism and the Reality Of The FiniteIn Philip Goff (ed.), Spinoza on Monism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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1Occasionalism and the mind-body problemIn M. A. Stewart (ed.), Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy, Clarendon Press. 1997.
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Dualism and occasionalism: Arnauld and the development of Cartesian metaphysicsRevue Internationale de Philosophie 48 (190): 421-439. 1994.
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15Descartes et Cervantes : le malin génie et la folie de Don QuichotteLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (3): 605-616. 1997.
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17Probability and Truth in the ApologyPhilosophy and Literature 9 (2): 198-202. 1985.This article is a reply to an earlier piece by kenneth seeskin (philosophy and literature, 1982). I argue that socrates' defense is more of a parody of gorgian rhetoric than seeskin is willing to allow. They key lies in socrates' use of rhetoric to persuade the beliefs of the athenian jurors by means of probabilities. When replying to the expressed pretexts of the trial, He uses "base" rhetoric; when finally attending to the real reasons behind his accusations, He resorts to "the truth about his…Read more
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139Spinoza on Lying and SuicideBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 257-278. 2016.Spinoza is often taken to claim that suicide is never a rational act, that a ‘free’ person acting by the guidance of reason will never terminate his/her own existence. Spinoza also defends the prima facie counterintuitive claim that the rational person will never act dishonestly. This second claim can, in fact, be justified when Spinoza's moral psychology and account of motivation are properly understood. Moreover, making sense of the free man's exception-less honesty in this way also helps to c…Read more
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1Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanical philosophyIn Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--513. 1998.
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13Pierre-Francois Moreau, Spinoza: L'experience et l'eterniteJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-144. 1996.
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4Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume Iii (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2006.Table of Contents Note from the Editors 1. Deflating Descartes’ Causal Axiom, Tad Schmaltz 2. The Dustbin Theory of Mind: A Cartesian Legacy?, Lawrence Nolan and John Whipple 3. Is Descartes a Libertarian?, C. P. Ragland 4. The Scholastic Resources for Descartes’ Concept of God as Causa Sui, Richard Lee 5. Hobbesian Mechanics, Doug Jesseph 6. Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas: Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities, Dan Kaufman 7. Atomism, Monism, and Causation in the Natural Philosophy of M…Read more
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275. Spinoza in the Garden of Good and EvilIn Michael J. Latzer & Elmar J. Kremer (eds.), The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 66-80. 2001.
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2Chapter 8. The PortraitIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. pp. 174-198. 2013.
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186"No Necessary Connection": The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of HumeThe Monist 79 (3): 448-466. 1996.In the not too distant past, it was common to treat Hume's skeptical doubts regarding the justification of our beliefs in causal connections—understood as necessary connections between objects or events—as having appeared per conceptionem immaculatam in his post-Cartesian mind. Thanks to recent efforts by scholars in early modern philosophy, however, we are now more informed about the roots of Hume's conclusions in Cartesian thought itself, especially the influence of Malebranche and his argumen…Read more
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31Scripture and Truth: A Problem in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 74 (4): 623-642. 2013.
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Theo Verbeek: Spinoza's Theological-political Treatise: Exploringthe Will of God'British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 347-349. 2003.
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50Malebranche and ideasOxford University Press. 1992.Nicolas Malebranche's account of the nature of ideas and their role in knowledge and perception has been greatly misunderstood by both his critics and commentators. In this work, Nadler examines Malebranche's theory of ideas and the doctrine of the vision in God with the aim of replacing the standard interpretation of Malebranche's account with a new reading. He argues that Malebranche's ideas should be seen as essences or logical concepts, and that our apprehension of them is thus of a purely i…Read more
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54Arnauld, Descartes, and Transubstantiation: Reconciling Cartesian Metaphysics and Real PresenceJournal of the History of Ideas 49 (2): 229. 1988.
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11The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes. Nicholas JolleyIsis 82 (4): 747-748. 1991.
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3IllustrationsIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. 2013.
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28Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 2 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.Oxford University Press is proud to present the second volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are impo…Read more
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10The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (review)International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 153-154. 1990.
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14De summa rerum: Metaphysical Papers, 1675-1676. G. W. Leibniz, G. H. R. ParkinsonIsis 84 (3): 577-578. 1993.
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32Radical enlightenmentBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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8Spinoza: L'expérience et l'éternité (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-145. 1996.BOOK REVIEWS 143 level of ignorance. I was, for example, surprised to learn that haecceitas is a compara- tively rare term in Scotus rather than signate matter. In his Introduction and Epilogue Gracia nicely counterbalances the tendency to- ward fragmentation stemming from the disparate accounts of individuality in the various thinkers represented in the volume. He does this, first, by highlighting for the reader the basic issues surrounding the problem of individuality, such as the concep- tion…Read more
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