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17The best of all possible worlds: a story of philosophers, God, and evilFarrar, Straus and Giroux. 2008.Leibniz in Paris -- Philosophy on the Left Bank -- Le Grand Arnauld -- Theodicy -- The kingdoms of nature and grace -- Touch the mountains and they smoke -- The eternal truths -- The specter of Spinoza.
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40Daisie Radner and Michael Radner: Animal Consciousness (review)Environmental Ethics 13 (2): 187-191. 1991.
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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Volume IITijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (3): 661-661. 2006.
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25Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of PhilosophyIn Smith Justin & Fraenkel Carlos (eds.), The Rationalists, Springer/synthese. pp. 167--182. 2011.
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17Descartes: An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger (review)Journal of Philosophy 93 (2): 101-104. 1996.
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26Gersonides on Providence: A Jewish Chapter in the History of the General WillJournal of the History of Ideas 62 (1): 37-57. 2001.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 62.1 (2001) 37-57 [Access article in PDF] Gersonides on Providence: A Jewish Chapter in the History of the General Will Steven Nadler The notion of the "general will" has proven to be one of the more influential and at the same time enduringly perplexing concepts in the history of ideas. Its most famous appearance is of course, in Rousseau's political philosophy as the expression, ideally embodied in t…Read more
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113Occasionalism: causation among the CartesiansOxford University Press. 2011.These essays examine the philosophical, scientific, theological and religious themes and arguments of occasionalism, as well as its roots in medieval views on ...
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203Spinoza's 'Ethics': An IntroductionCambridge University Press. 2006.Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in Spinoza's famous 'geometric method', his radical views on God, Nature, the human being, and happiness. In this wide-ranging 2006 introduction to the work, Steven Nadler explains the doctrines and arguments of the Ethics, and shows why Spinoza's endless…Read more
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57Cartesianism and Port-RoyalThe Monist 71 (4): 573-584. 1988.Contrary to what appears to be popular belief, Port-Royal was not a bastion of cartesianism. In fact, Of all the port-Royalists of the seventeenth century, Only arnauld can be considered a cartesian in any interesting sense. Most of the others associated with the order were hostile to the new philosophy and actively campaigned against it, Believing it to pose a threat to piety and "true" religion. This can be seen by examining the writings of de sacy, Du vaucel, And nicole, And the various philo…Read more
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8Wiep Van Bunge: From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch RepublicBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 135-136. 2002.
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195 Malebranche on CausationIn The Cambridge companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 112. 2000.
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Aaron V. Garrett: Meaning in Spinoza's MethodBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (2): 345-347. 2004.
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22The philosopher, the priest, and the painter: a portrait of DescartesPrinceton University Press. 2013."--Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania ""The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter" is an excellent introduction for general readers to Descartes and his thought. Nadler brings the story and ideas to life.
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45Knowledge, volitional agency and causation in Malebranche and geulincxBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (2). 1999.
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479Spinoza 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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10Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume Iv (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.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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36The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, and: Spinoza: The LettersJournal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1): 140-142. 1997.
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78From 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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Richard Mason, The God of Spinoza. A Philosophical StudyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 488-490. 1998.
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48Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind (review)International Studies in Philosophy 33 (4): 153-154. 2001.
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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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3Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume Ii (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2005.Oxford University Press is proud to present the second volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy.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 will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are impor…Read more
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22Conceptions 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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29Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez a Leibniz (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 42 (4): 493-494. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez à LeibnizSteven NadlerVincent Carraud. Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez à Leibniz. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002. Pp. 573. € 42,00.Over the last two decades, there has been a good deal of outstanding work on the problem of causation in early modern philosophy. Some of it has been devoted to first-order questions: for example, on whether t…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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16Spinoza and Scripture: A Colloquium IntroductionJournal of the History of Ideas 74 (4): 621-622. 2013.
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