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153From 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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76The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, and: Spinoza: The LettersJournal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 140-142. 1997.
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291Occasionalism and general will in MalebrancheJournal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1): 31-47. 1993.This paper examines a common misreading of the mechanics of Malebranche's doctrine of divine causal agency, occasionalism, and its roots in a related misreading of Malebranche's theories. God, contrary to this misreading, is for Malebranche constantly and actively causally engaged in the world, and does not just establish certain laws of nature. The key is in understanding just what Malebranche means by general volitions'
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90Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind (review)International Studies in Philosophy 33 (4): 153-154. 2001.
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62Conceptions 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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68Malebranche and the Vision in God: A Note on The Search After Truth, III, 2, iiiJournal of the History of Ideas 52 (2): 309-314. 1991.
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19IllustrationsIn The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. 2013.
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651Spinoza 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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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume V (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.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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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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Richard Mason, The God of Spinoza. A Philosophical StudyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 488-490. 1998.
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123Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.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 also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.
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Areas of Interest
| Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
| 17th/18th Century Philosophy |