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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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17Descartes: An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger (review)Journal of Philosophy 93 (2): 101-104. 1996.
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16Spinoza and Scripture: A Colloquium IntroductionJournal of the History of Ideas 74 (4): 621-622. 2013.
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16Descartes and Augustine (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (4): 625-627. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Descartes and Augustine by Stephen MennSteven NadlerStephen Menn. Descartes and Augustine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 415. Cloth, $74.95.As most readers of this journal well know, scholars in the history of philosophy can, however roughly, be divided into two distinct (and sometimes antagonistic) camps: those who think that work on the great philosophers of the past should focus almost exclusive…Read more
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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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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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15Spinoza'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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14Lectures 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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14De summa rerum: Metaphysical Papers, 1675-1676. G. W. Leibniz, G. H. R. ParkinsonIsis 84 (3): 577-578. 1993.
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14Causation 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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13Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and FictionsJournal of the History of Ideas 80 (4): 533-554. 2019.
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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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12Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant. John W. YoltonIsis 88 (1): 124-125. 1997.
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12Richard 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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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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11The 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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11Review of Olli Koistinen, John Biro (eds.), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (11). 2002.
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11The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity Through the Seventeenth Century (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.The first volume in this comprehensive work is an exploration of the history of Jewish philosophy from its beginnings in antiquity to the early modern period, with a particular emphasis on medieval Jewish thought. Unlike most histories, encyclopedias, guides, or companions of Jewish philosophy, this volume is organized by philosophical topic rather than by chronology or individual figures. There are sections on logic and language; natural philosophy; epistemology, philosophy of mind, and psychol…Read more
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1013. The Guide of the Perplexed in Early Modern Philosophy and SpinozaIn Josef Stern, James T. Robinson & Yonatan Shemesh (eds.), Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History From the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth, University of Chicago Press. pp. 365-384. 2019.
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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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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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