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    Spinoza's Monism and the Reality Of The Finite
    In Philip Goff (ed.), Spinoza on Monism, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
  • Dualism and occasionalism: Arnauld and the development of Cartesian metaphysics
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 48 (190): 421-439. 1994.
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    Un libro forjado en el infierno
    Ideas Y Valores 61 (150). 2012.
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    Probability and Truth in the Apology
    Philosophy and Literature 9 (2): 198-202. 1985.
    This article is a reply to an earlier piece by kenneth seeskin (philosophy and literature, 1982). I argue that socrates' defense is more of a parody of gorgian rhetoric than seeskin is willing to allow. They key lies in socrates' use of rhetoric to persuade the beliefs of the athenian jurors by means of probabilities. When replying to the expressed pretexts of the trial, He uses "base" rhetoric; when finally attending to the real reasons behind his accusations, He resorts to "the truth about his…Read more
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    Review: The science of conjecture (review)
    Mind 112 (447): 539-542. 2003.
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    Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2014.
    Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. It is the first such collection in any language, and together the essays provide a detailed and extensive analy…Read more
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    Berkeley’s Ideas and the Primary/Secondary Distinction
    Canadian 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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    Lectures de Descartes ed. by Frédéric de Buzon, Élodie Cassan, and Denis Kambouchner
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 54 (1): 168-169. 2016.
    A fair number of recent monographs and essay collections on Descartes cover the same old ground, rehashing well-worn problems and taking us for another tour in Cartesian circles. Much to be preferred are those studies that go beyond the familiar and truly advance our understanding of Cartesian metaphysics, epistemology, science, ethics, and philosophical theology, especially with new insights into their complex relationships. The best anthologies will also contain original essays by both well-es…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.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche
    Philosophical Quarterly 52 (207): 258-261. 2002.
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    Oxford 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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    Spinoza on Lying and Suicide
    British 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
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    Pierre-Francois Moreau, Spinoza: L'experience et l'eternite
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-144. 1996.
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    5. Spinoza in the Garden of Good and Evil
    In Michael J. Latzer & Elmar J. Kremer (eds.), The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 66-80. 2001.
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    Descartes's Dualism
    with Gordon Baker and Katherine Morris
    Philosophical Books 38 (3): 157-169. 1997.
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    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
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    Malebranche and ideas
    Oxford 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
  • Spinoza
    with Frans van Zetten and Margaret Gullan-Whur
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 64 (3): 571-572. 2002.