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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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20Melissa Lo, Skepticism's Pictures: Figuring Descartes's Natural Philosophy University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023. Pp. 230. ISBN 978-0-271-09482-3. $104.95 (hardcover) (review)British Journal for the History of Science 1-3. forthcoming.
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Spinoza on good and badIn Charles Ramond & Jack Stetter (eds.), Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, . 2019.
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1L'ombre de MalebrancheArchives de Philosophie 78 (1): 131-151. 2015.Résumé La première lettre d’Arnauld à Leibniz, le 13 mars 1686, fut écrite peu de temps après la publication de ses Réflexions philosophiques et théologiques contre le Traité de la nature et de la grâce de Malebranche, dans lesquelles il critique la manière dont l’oratorien rend compte de la nature et de l’étendue de la providence divine. Or, bien que les premiers échanges entre Arnauld et Leibniz semblent privilégier la question de la liberté divine, le problème de la providence est lui aussi b…Read more
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1Baruch SpinozaIn John Shand (ed.), Central Works of Philosophy V2: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Routledge. pp. 37-59. 2005.
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3Baruch SpinozaIn A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains section titled: Biography Ethics Theological‐Political Treatise.
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15Spinoza's Moral PhilosophyIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.Spinoza's moral philosophy was neglected in favor of his views in metaphysics and epistemology. Spinoza's discussion in the Ethics suggests that while ‘good’ and ‘bad’ do not refer to real intrinsic features of things, nevertheless they can bear an objectivist burden. The notion of conatus lies at the heart of Spinoza's moral psychology and theory of motivation. In Spinoza's view, then, human beings are thoroughly egoistic agents. An agent's power or striving may be directed either by random sen…Read more
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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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12The Doctrine of IdeasIn Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: What are Ideas? Formal vs Objective Reality Innate, Adventitious, and Fictitious Ideas Clarity and Distinctness.
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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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10Patricia Easton, Thomas M. Lennon, and Gregor Sebba, "Bibliographia Malebranchiana: A Critical Guide to the Malebranche Literature into 1989" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (4): 633. 1993.
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18Helen Sebba, Aníbal A. Bueno, and Hendrikus Boers, eds., "The Collected Essays of Gregor Sebba: Truth, History and the Imagination" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (3): 477. 1993.
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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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103Berkeley’s Ideas and the Primary/Secondary DistinctionCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 47-61. 1990.Part of Berkeley's strategy in his attack on materialism in the Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous is to argue that the epistemological distinction between ideas of so-called primary qualities and ideas of secondary qualities, especially as this distinction is found in Locke, is untenable. Both kinds of ideas-those presenting to the mind the quantifiable properties of bodies and those which are just sensations -are equally perceptions in the mind, and there is no reason to believe that …Read more
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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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2Book 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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1Book 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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5Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophy, edited by Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber and Carla Rita Palmerino, New York and London, Routledge, 2023, 426 pp., 5 b/w illus., $160 (hardback), ISBN 978-11-38-69745-4 (review)Annals of Science 81 (3): 440-442. 2024.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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81The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche (review)Philosophical Review 111 (1): 108. 2002.The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas 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 the religious Platonism of St. Augustine. 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 Arnau…Read more
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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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