-
9Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (5). 2003.
-
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.
-
23Francis X. J. Coleman, "Neither Angel nor Beast. The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 489. 1988.
-
15Pierre-Francois Moreau, Spinoza: L'experience et l'eterniteJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-144. 1996.
-
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
-
142Spinoza on Lying and SuicideBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (2): 257-278. 2016.Spinoza is often taken to claim that suicide is never a rational act, that a ‘free’ person acting by the guidance of reason will never terminate his/her own existence. Spinoza also defends the prima facie counterintuitive claim that the rational person will never act dishonestly. This second claim can, in fact, be justified when Spinoza's moral psychology and account of motivation are properly understood. Moreover, making sense of the free man's exception-less honesty in this way also helps to c…Read more
-
1Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanical philosophyIn Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 2--513. 1998.
-
187"No Necessary Connection": The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of HumeThe Monist 79 (3): 448-466. 1996.In the not too distant past, it was common to treat Hume's skeptical doubts regarding the justification of our beliefs in causal connections—understood as necessary connections between objects or events—as having appeared per conceptionem immaculatam in his post-Cartesian mind. Thanks to recent efforts by scholars in early modern philosophy, however, we are now more informed about the roots of Hume's conclusions in Cartesian thought itself, especially the influence of Malebranche and his argumen…Read more
-
275. Spinoza in the Garden of Good and EvilIn Michael J. Latzer & Elmar J. Kremer (eds.), The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 66-80. 2001.
-
2Chapter 8. The PortraitIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. pp. 174-198. 2013.
-
32Scripture and Truth: A Problem in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 74 (4): 623-642. 2013.
-
Theo Verbeek: Spinoza's Theological-political Treatise: Exploringthe Will of God'British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2): 347-349. 2003.
-
50Malebranche and ideasOxford University Press. 1992.Nicolas Malebranche's account of the nature of ideas and their role in knowledge and perception has been greatly misunderstood by both his critics and commentators. In this work, Nadler examines Malebranche's theory of ideas and the doctrine of the vision in God with the aim of replacing the standard interpretation of Malebranche's account with a new reading. He argues that Malebranche's ideas should be seen as essences or logical concepts, and that our apprehension of them is thus of a purely i…Read more
-
54Arnauld, Descartes, and Transubstantiation: Reconciling Cartesian Metaphysics and Real PresenceJournal of the History of Ideas 49 (2): 229. 1988.
-
11The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes. Nicholas JolleyIsis 82 (4): 747-748. 1991.
-
3IllustrationsIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of Descartes, Princeton University Press. 2013.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |