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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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21Conceptions 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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Baruch Spinoza and the Naturalization of JudaismIn Michael L. Morgan & Peter Eli Gordon (eds.), The Cambridge companion to modern Jewish philosophy, Cambrige University Press. pp. 14--34. 2007.
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27Theo Verbeek, "Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy, 1637-1650" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4): 672. 1994.
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Le Testament de Spinoza (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 13 302-304. 1997.
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Hope, fear, and the politics of immortalityIn Tom Sorell & Graham Alan John Rogers (eds.), Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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3Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575–1715 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1): 124-125. 2013.
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18Oxford 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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44The best of all possible worlds: a story of philosophers, God, and evil in the Age of ReasonPrinceton University Press. 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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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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25Spinoza: L'expérience et l'éternitéJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-145. 1996.BOOK REVIEWS 143 level of ignorance. I was, for example, surprised to learn that haecceitas is a compara- tively rare term in Scotus rather than signate matter. In his Introduction and Epilogue Gracia nicely counterbalances the tendency to- ward fragmentation stemming from the disparate accounts of individuality in the various thinkers represented in the volume. He does this, first, by highlighting for the reader the basic issues surrounding the problem of individuality, such as the concep- tion…Read more
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143Descartes and occasional causationBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (1). 1994.After a brief analysis of the nature of occasional causation, distinguishing it from both efficient causation and the doctrine of occasionalism, it is argued that this model of causation informs Descartes' account of the generation of sensory ideas in the mind. It is further argued that, consequently, Descartes is not an occasionalist on this matter
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8New Essays on the Rationalists (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (3): 437-439. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:New Essays on the RationalistsSteven NadlerRocco J. Gennaro and Charles Huenemann, editors. New Essays on the Rationalists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii + 391. Cloth, $60.00.Here is yet another collection of essays on early modern philosophy. The focus this time is on the Seventeenth century, in particular "the rationalists." What this apparently involves is, as the old-fashioned classification has it, …Read more
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9Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV. Desmond M. ClarkeIsis 81 (4): 772-773. 1990.
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1Could Spinoza Have Presented the Ethics as the True Content of the Bible?Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 4 1-50. 2008.
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27Cartesianism and Port-Royal in Descartes and His ContemporariesThe 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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68Malebranche's occasionalism: A reply to ClarkeJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (3): 505-508. 1995.
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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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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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