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165 Malebranche on CausationIn Steven M. Nadler (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 112. 2000.
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16Spinoza and Scripture: A Colloquium IntroductionJournal of the History of Ideas 74 (4): 621-622. 2013.
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15De summa rerum: Metaphysical Papers, 1675-1676 by G. W. Leibniz; G. H. R. Parkinson (review)Isis 84 577-578. 1993.
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15Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 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 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 important in illuminating ear…Read more
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15Berkeley’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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15Descartes et Cervantes : le malin génie et la folie de Don QuichotteLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (3): 605-616. 1997.
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14De summa rerum: Metaphysical Papers, 1675-1676. G. W. Leibniz, G. H. R. ParkinsonIsis 84 (3): 577-578. 1993.
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14Spinoza'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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14Nicholas Jolley. Causality and Mind: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy. ix + 279 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. £45 (review)Isis 106 (3): 718-719. 2015.
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13Lectures de Descartes ed. by Frédéric de Buzon, Élodie Cassan, and Denis KambouchnerJournal 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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13Pierre-Francois Moreau, Spinoza: L'experience et l'eterniteJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-144. 1996.
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13Melissa 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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13Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and FictionsJournal of the History of Ideas 80 (4): 533-554. 2019.
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12Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant. John W. YoltonIsis 88 (1): 124-125. 1997.
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11Spinoza 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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10Richard A. "Red" Watson, 1930–2019Journal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1). 2020.On September 18, 2019, the Cartesian scholar Richard A. Watson, known to his family, friends, and colleagues as "Red," passed away at the age of 88.watson was born in 1930 in new market, Iowa, where he met his wife Patty Jo in middle school. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Iowa, studying under Richard H. Popkin. After a brief stint teaching at the University of Michigan, Watson spent most of his career at Washington University in St. Louis, where Popkin also joined …Read more
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10Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant by John W. Yolton (review)Isis 88 124-125. 1997.
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10The 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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10The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (review)International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 153-154. 1990.
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10Review of Olli Koistinen, John Biro (eds.), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (11). 2002.
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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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10Causation in Early Modern Philosophy: Cartesianism, Occasionalism, and Preestablished Harmony (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1992.Three general accounts of causation stand out in early modern philosophy: Cartesian interactionism, occasionalism, and Leibniz's preestablished harmony. The contributors to this volume examine these theories in their philosophical and historical context. They address them both as a means for answering specific questions regarding causal relations and in their relation to one another, in particular, comparing occasionalism and the preestablished harmony as responses to Descartes's metaphysics and…Read more
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9Reading Bayle Thomas M. Lennon Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, ix + 202 pp., $60.00, $19.95 paper (review)Dialogue 40 (3): 626-. 2001.
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