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5Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2017.An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority—sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death—to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world. With masterful storytelling and color illustrations, Heretics! offers a unique introdu…Read more
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5Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophyAnnals of Science. forthcoming.Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) has never really received the respect he deserves, especially in the Anglo-American world. His contemporaries recognized his Christianized Epicurean system, with its mit...
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5Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Body and the SoulOxford University Press UK. 2015.Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body offers an account of the mind and the body in a human being. Cordemoy is an unorthodox Cartesian who opts for an atomist conception of body and matter. In this groundbreaking treatise, he also presents one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation, with God serving as the tr…Read more
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5Chapter 3. The PriestIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. pp. 36-54. 2013.
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5Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume I (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2003.Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy will focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the period 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 important in illuminating early modern thought. The core of the subject …Read more
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5Cambridge and London 1650In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 100-105. 2017.
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5London 1703In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 160-173. 2017.
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5Rationalism in Jewish PhilosophyIn Alan Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: The Interpretation of Scripture Reason and the Law Reason and Happiness The Spinozistic Denouement.
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4The Hague 1670In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 51-71. 2017.
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4AcknowledgmentsIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. 2013.
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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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4Rome 1600In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 7-8. 2017.
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4Descartes: An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger (review)Journal of Philosophy 93 (2): 101-104. 1996.
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4Chapter 2. The PhilosopherIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. pp. 8-35. 2013.
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4Book reviews (review)The European Legacy 2 (5): 886-951. 1997.Political Writings. By Joseph Priestley, edited by Peter Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xxxix + 147 pp. £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper. Blessings in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil. By Jean Starobinski, translated by A. Goldham‐mer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 235 pp. $39.95 cloth. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. By Robert Pynsent (London: Oxford University Press, 1994) 244 pp. $49.94/£25.00 cloth. Voltaire: Politi…Read more
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4Paris 1675In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 106-120. 2017.
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4Whatever is, is God" : substance and things in Spinoza's metaphysicsIn Charles Huenemann (ed.), Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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4The Cambridge companion to Malebranche (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2000.The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with religious Platonism. This is the first collection of essays to address Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically. There are chapters devoted to Malebranche's metaphysics, his doctrine of the soul, his epistemology, the celebrated debate with Arnauld, his philosophical …Read more
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4The Good Cartesian: Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical ParadigmOxford University press. 2024.A biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666) and his contributions to the fortunes of Cartesianism in the seventeenth century. La Forge was instrumental in making Descartes' philosophy the dominant philosophical paradigm of the period. He contributed illustrations and a commentary to the 1664 edition of Descartes' Traité de l'homme; and then, in 1666, he published his own account of the human mind and its relation to the body on Cartesian principles, the Traité de l'…Read more
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4Chapter 4. The PainterIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. pp. 55-86. 2013.
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3Book reviews (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 473-514. 1998.Duns Scotus, Metaphysician. William A. Frank and Allan B. Wolter. Purdue University Press 1995, pp. 224 £27.50 Hb. ISBN 1–55753–071–8 £13.19 Pb. ISBN 1–55753–072–6 Plato in Renaissance England. Sears Jayne. Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 197 Dfl. 190.00, $122.00, £80.00 hb. ISBN 0–7923–3060–9 Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes. Michael Esfeld. Frommann‐Holzboog, Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt 1995, pp. 434. ISBN 3–7728–1699–1 Descartes,…Read more
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3FrontmatterIn Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-2. 2017.
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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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3Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575–1715 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1): 124-125. 2013.
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3Dramatis personaeIn Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 181-183. 2017.
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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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3Spinoza's Monism and the Reality Of The FiniteIn Philip Goff (ed.), Spinoza on Monism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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