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3Nicholas Wolterstorff, Works and Worlds of Art Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 2 (1): 39-43. 1982.
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25Philosopher: A kind of lifePhilosophy 78 (4): 541-552. 2003.This is an essay review of Ted Honderich's recently published autobiography. Treating the work as both a study of philosophical and political culture in the second half of the twentieth century and as an exercise in self-evaluation, the reviewer discusses the problems of truth and explanation in narrative and the issues of professional and sexual morality raised by the narrative. Honderich's account is assessed as credible, illuminating, and well-written, even as questions are raised concerning …Read more
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6Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times by Steve Fuller (review)Isis 92 436-437. 2001.
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10WilliamsIn Christopher Belshaw & Gary Kemp (eds.), 12 Modern Philosophers, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This paper discusses the contributions of Bernard Williams to Moral and Political Philosophy.
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2VII. Experience and the self: the New EssaysIn Donald Rutherford (ed.), Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Duke University Press. pp. 232-267. 1992.
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5V. Atom, substance, soulIn Donald Rutherford (ed.), Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Duke University Press. pp. 158-202. 1992.
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33What is Identity? (review)Review of Metaphysics 44 (3): 663-664. 1991.What is Identity? is the third volume in C. J. F. Williams's trilogy, following What is Existence?, published in 1981, and What is Truth?, published in 1986.
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18Up at the Fork of the Creek: In Search of American PopulismTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1995 (104): 77-88. 1995.
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40What do simple folks know? Commentary on the papers of Adler, Arikha, martensen, Origgi, and stolerPhilosophical Forum 39 (3): 363-372. 2008.No Abstract
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Simone de Beauvoir and Human DignityIn Emily R. Grosholz (ed.), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Clarendon Press. 2006.
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36Review of David Cunning, Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (10). 2010.
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45Theological Foundations for Modern Science?Dialogue 36 (3): 597. 1997.The paper is a critical notice of Margaret Osler, "Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy". Criticism focuses on Osler's claim that theological voluntarism and intellectualism and associated ideas about the necessity of physical laws and the certainty of scientific beliefs provide an underlying framework for understanding Gassendi's and Descartes's natural philosophies
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47V—Moral Truth: Observational or Theoretical?Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 111 (1pt1): 97-114. 2011.Moral properties are widely held to be response‐dependent properties of actions, situations, events and persons. There is controversy as to whether the putative response‐dependence of these properties nullifies any truth‐claims for moral judgements, or rather supports them. The present paper argues that moral judgements are more profitably compared with theoretical judgements in the natural sciences than with the judgements of immediate sense‐perception. The notion of moral truth is dependent on…Read more
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23Descartes's gambit Peter J. Markie , 278 pp., $30.25, cloth (review)History of European Ideas 9 (6): 741-742. 1988.
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694Lucretius and the history of scienceIn Stuart Gillespie & Philip R. Hardie (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Lucretius, Cambridge University Press. 2007.An overview of the influence of Lucretius poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) on the renaissance and scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, and an examination of its continuing influence over physical atomism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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17Subjectivity and representation in descartes: The origins of modernity: Dalia Judovitz , xii + 230pp., £25.00 H.B (review)History of European Ideas 10 (3): 387-389. 1989.
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16Descartes: The probable and the certain: M. Glouberman , 374pp (review)History of European Ideas 10 (3): 384-385. 1989.
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The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the MicroscopeJournal of the History of Biology 29 (3): 466-468. 1995.
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12The Fold (review)The Leibniz Review 3 1-2. 1993.In this fascinating but sometimes baffling book, the reader engages with a series of conditionals like the following: “If [the psychiatrist] Clérimbault manifests a delirium, it is because he discovers the tiny hallucinatory perceptions of ether addicts in the folds of clothing”. “If Leibniz’s principles [of identity and sufficient reason] appear to us as cries, it is because each one signals the presence of a class of beings that are themselves crying and draw attention to themselves by these c…Read more
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4Les Modèles du vivant de Descartes à Leibniz (review)The Leibniz Review 12 123-127. 2002.Nowadays “philosophy of biology” is taken to be the special study of a set of issues concerning selection, adaptation, and the characterization of a species. Though the reduction of biology to chemistry and physics remained a topic in the general philosophy of science syllabus through the 1970s, the concept of life subsequently lost even this marginal foothold in the curriculum. Hans.
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39Margaret Dauler WilsonThe Leibniz Review 9 1-15. 1999.Margaret Wilson, who died last year, has been described as the most eminent English-language historian of early modern philosophy of her generation. She was President of the Leibniz Society of North America for four years, from 1986 to 1990. Within this organization she is remembered both for her contributions to Leibniz-studies and for her attention to and support of younger researchers and her governing role in the Society. Her Harvard Ph.D. dissertation on “Leibniz’s Doctrine of Necessary Tru…Read more
Catherine Wilson
CUNY Graduate Center
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CUNY Graduate CenterDistinguished Professor (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Social and Political Philosophy |