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3Spinoza's Monism and the Reality Of The FiniteIn Philip Goff (ed.), Spinoza on Monism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2011.
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1Occasionalism and the mind-body problemIn Michael Alexander Stewart (ed.), Studies in seventeenth-century European philosophy, Oxford University 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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2Descartes 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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6Cartesianism and Port-RoyalThe Monist 71 (4): 573-584. 1988.Contrary to what appears to be popular belief, Port-Royal was not a bastion of cartesianism. In fact, Of all the port-Royalists of the seventeenth century, Only arnauld can be considered a cartesian in any interesting sense. Most of the others associated with the order were hostile to the new philosophy and actively campaigned against it, Believing it to pose a threat to piety and "true" religion. This can be seen by examining the writings of de sacy, Du vaucel, And nicole, And the various philo…Read more
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8Wiep Van Bunge: From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch RepublicBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 135-136. 2002.
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195 Malebranche on CausationIn The Cambridge companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 112. 2000.
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203Spinoza's 'Ethics': An IntroductionCambridge University Press. 2006.Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in Spinoza's famous 'geometric method', his radical views on God, Nature, the human being, and happiness. In this wide-ranging 2006 introduction to the work, Steven Nadler explains the doctrines and arguments of the Ethics, and shows why Spinoza's endless…Read more
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7The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of DescartesPrinceton University Press. 2013."--Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania ""The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter" is an excellent introduction for general readers to Descartes and his thought. Nadler brings the story and ideas to life.
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11Knowledge, volitional agency and causation in Malebranche and geulincxBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.
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26Spinoza and consciousnessMind 117 (467): 575-601. 2008.Most discussions of Spinoza and consciousness—and there are not many— conclude either that he does not have an account of consciousness, or that he does have one but that it is at best confused, at worst hopeless. I argue, in fact, that people have been looking in the wrong place for Spinoza's account of consciousness, namely, at his doctrine of "ideas of ideas". Indeed, Spinoza offers the possibility of a fairly sophisticated, naturalistic account of consciousness, one that grounds it in the na…Read more
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Aaron V. Garrett: Meaning in Spinoza's MethodBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2): 345-347. 2004.
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1The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, and: Spinoza: The LettersJournal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 140-142. 1997.
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6From Bondage to Freedom: Spinoza on Human ExcellenceBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (5): 947-950. 2010.This Article does not have an abstract
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Richard Mason, The God of Spinoza. A Philosophical StudyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 488-490. 1998.
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5Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume Iv (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It 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.
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12Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant. John W. YoltonIsis 88 (1): 124-125. 1997.
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3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume Ii (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 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 impor…Read more
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10Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind (review)International Studies in Philosophy 33 (4): 153-154. 2001.
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22Conceptions of GodIn Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy in early modern Europe, Oxford University Press. 2011.This article examines the three ways in which God was conceptualized by leading philosophers in early modern Europe. Gottfried Leibniz and Nicholas Malebranche's rationalist God was conceived as an analogy with a rational human being whose actions are explained by their purposes. René Descartes and Antoine Arnauld's voluntarist God was conceived Antoine Arnauld. Baruch Spinoza equated God with an eternally existing, infinite nature.
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3Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez a Leibniz (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (4): 493-494. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez à LeibnizSteven NadlerVincent Carraud. Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez à Leibniz. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002. Pp. 573. € 42,00.Over the last two decades, there has been a good deal of outstanding work on the problem of causation in early modern philosophy. Some of it has been devoted to first-order questions: for example, on whether t…Read more
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14Nicholas Jolley. Causality and Mind: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy. ix + 279 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45 (review)Isis 106 (3): 718-719. 2015.
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27Theo Verbeek, "Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy, 1637-1650" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4): 672. 1994.
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