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45Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (2): 321-322. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven B. SmithSteven NadlerSteven B. Smith. Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 270. Cloth, $30.00.Steven B. Smith’s aim in this elegant, well-written book is to restore Spinoza to his important and rightful place in the history of political and religious thought. At the heart of the book i…Read more
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45A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2002._ A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy_ is a comprehensive guide to the most significant philosophers and philosophical concepts of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Provides a comprehensive guide to all the important modern philosophers and modern philosophical movements. Spans a wide range of philosophical areas and problems, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, political philosophy and aesthetics. Written by leading scholars in the field. Represents …Read more
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45Knowledge, volitional agency and causation in Malebranche and geulincxBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.
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44The best of all possible worlds: a story of philosophers, God, and evil in the Age of ReasonPrinceton University Press. 2008.Leibniz in Paris -- Philosophy on the Left Bank -- Le Grand Arnauld -- Theodicy -- The kingdoms of nature and grace -- "Touch the mountains and they smoke" -- The eternal truths -- The specter of Spinoza.
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41Spinoza's heresy: immortality and the Jewish mindOxford University Press. 2001.Why was the great philosopher Spinoza expelled from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose.
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40Reconceiving Spinoza by Samuel NewlandsJournal of the History of Philosophy 57 (2): 346-347. 2019.In 1969, Edwin Curley published his Spinoza's Metaphysics: An Essay in Interpretation. It was a groundbreaking book in which Curley offers a bold and original account of Spinoza's metaphysical theses. In his highly unorthodox but hugely influential reading, he tries to mitigate some of the ontological oddity of Spinoza's claims that "whatever is, is in God," that "from God infinite things follow in infinite ways," and that mind and body are "one and the same thing," by giving them a strictly cau…Read more
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40Daisie Radner and Michael Radner: Animal Consciousness (review)Environmental Ethics 13 (2): 187-191. 1991.
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38The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography and philosophy, with chapters on his epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical th…Read more
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36The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, and: Spinoza: The LettersJournal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 140-142. 1997.
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35R. C. Sleigh, Jr., "Leibniz and Arnauld: A Commentary on Their Correspondence" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (3): 494. 1991.
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34The Jewish SpinozaJournal of the History of Ideas 70 (3): 491-510. 2009.The seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza, was expelled from the Amsterdam Portuguese- Jewish community when he was a young man, and in his philosophy he adopts a critical, even hostile attitude toward sectarian religions. Scholars have debated the extent to which Spinoza's thought, despite his own fraught relationship to Judaism, belongs to the history of Jewish philosophy. This review article looks at various trends in scholarship on Spinoza and Judaism, and particularly…Read more
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33Aliquid remanet: What Are We to Do with Spinoza's Compendium of Hebrew Grammar?Journal of the History of Philosophy 56 (1): 155-167. 2018.Good things come to those who wait. In this case, the waiting period was just a bit shy of the amount of time that the ancient Israelites had to spend in the desert before entering the Promised Land. But now, over thirty years after the appearance of the first volume of Edwin Curley's English edition of the "collected works" of Spinoza—and almost fifty years since the signing of the original contract with Princeton University Press—we have been magnificently rewarded. Volume 2 is, like its prede…Read more
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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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32Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1989.Three general accounts of causation stand out in early modern philosophy: Cartesian interactionism, occasionalism, and Leibniz's preestablished harmony. The contributors to this volume examine these theories in their philosophical and historical context. They address them both as a means for answering specific questions regarding causal relations and in their relation to one another, in particular, comparing occasionalism and the preestablished harmony as responses to Descartes's metaphysics and…Read more
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31Elmar J. Kremer, trans. "Antoine Arnauld: On True and False Ideas. New Objections to Descartes' Meditations and Descartes' Replies" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1): 140. 1992.
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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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31Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by Walter OttJournal of the History of Philosophy 56 (1): 175-176. 2018.This is a short book on a small topic with big ramifications. I call it a small topic because Descartes's account of perception occupies only a corner of his overall philosophical project, which is dominated by his concern to provide a solid metaphysical and epistemological grounding for his science. At the same time, Ott's discussion of sense perception in Descartes comes part and parcel with an account of the theory of ideas in Descartes and later Cartesians, a theory of how to read the Medita…Read more
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31Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to DiePrinceton University Press. 2020.From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for “abominable heresies” and “monstrous deeds,” the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious across Europe for his views on God, the Bible, and miracles, as well as for his uncompromising defense of free thought. Yet …Read more
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29Œuvres vol. IV: Ethica/Éthique by Baruch SpinozaJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (3): 515-517. 2021.The world of Spinoza scholarship has seen a number of remarkable achievements in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. There was the publication of an expanded, two-volume edition of Jakob Freudenthal's Die Lebensgeschichte Spinozas by Manfred Walther and Michael Czelinski in 2006, an indispensable resource for documents related to Spinoza's life and writings. Then there was the stunning discovery by Leen Spruit in 2010 of a manuscript of Spinoza's Ethics in the Vatican Library—the …Read more
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29Causa 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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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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28Gersonides: Judaism Within the Limits of ReasonBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (4). 2011.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 816-819, July 2011
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27Cartesianism and Port-Royal in Descartes and His ContemporariesThe 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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