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18Review: Losonsky, Enlightenment and Action From Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (1). 2002.
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17Hide Ishiguro., Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language, 2nd edInternational Studies in Philosophy 26 (2): 128-129. 1994.
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17Disgrace : Bernard Williams and J.M. CoetzeeIn Garry Hagberg (ed.), Art and Ethical Criticism, Blackwell. pp. 144--162. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Williams's Critique of Moral Theory Disgrace and Greek tragedy The Problem of Power The Evaluation of Social and Political Institutions.
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16Enthusiasm and its critics: Historical and modern perspectivesHistory of European Ideas 17 (4): 461-478. 1993.
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16Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative StudyPrinceton University Press. 1990.This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's thinking as he confronted the major philosophical problems of his era. Beginning with his interest in artificial languages and calculi for proof and discovery, the author proceeds to an examination of Leibniz’s early theories of matter and motion, to the phenomenalistic turn in …Read more
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15Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe by G. W. Leibniz (review)Journal of Philosophy 83 (7): 395-398. 1986.
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14The Preferences of WomenIn Peggy DesAutels & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Moral Psychology: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 99. 2004.
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13Michael R. Matthews, ed., The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (6): 243-244. 1990.
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12Reply to Cover’s 1993 Review of Leibniz’s MetaphysicsThe Leibniz Review 4 5-8. 1994.It is an honor to have been given the opportunity by the editor to reply to J.A. Cover’s review of Leibniz’s Metaphysics, and to have a chance to revisit, five years after the book’s publication, the still-active battleground of intrinsic and extrinsic properties, the extensionality and intensionality of perception, and the reality of aggregates and to say more, a little informally perhaps, about about some methodological questions in Leibniz scholarship. Cover’s review when it appeared gave me …Read more
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11Analytical essay on the faculties of the soul (review)Annals of Science 80 (4): 420-423. 2023.The Genevan naturalist, Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), was one of the best-known scientific observers and theorists of the second half of the eighteenth century. His first interests lay in the microsc...
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11Peter Loptson, ed., Anne Conway: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 3 (6): 292-296. 1983.
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10The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the MicroscopePrinceton University Press. 1995.In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both sympathetic intuition and direct perception, was now accessible with the help of optical instruments. The microscope led to a conception of science as an objective, procedure-driven mode of inquiry and renewed interest in atomism and mechanism. Focusing on the earli…Read more
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10The cogito meant ‘no more philosophy’: Valéry's descartesHistory of European Ideas 9 (1): 47-62. 1988.
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10Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (5): 325-327. 2003.
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10The 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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9Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.This collection of original essays deals with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings.
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9Kant and the naturalistic turn of 18th Century philosophyOxford University Press. 2022.Struck by the absence of love affairs, adventures, travels, and political engagement in Immanuel Kant's life, a noted commentator describes him as unformed, to a degree surpassing all other philosophers, by challenging life events. Declaring that Kant 'can be understood only through his work in which he immerses himself with unwavering discipline,' the writer evokes the image of a body of writing demanding to be understood through text-internal analytical methods alone. The theme of the enclosed…Read more
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9Picturing Knowledge (review)Dialogue 38 (3): 664-666. 1999.Picturing Knowledge is a collection of papers on scientific illustration written by historians and philosophers of science. While the philosophers of science tend to focus on the question whether illustrations are more than helpful aids to symbolic proofs and linguistic explications, the historians are interested in the presuppositions attaching to particular modes of representation—the decision what to depict and how to depict it. David Knight discusses the conventions determined what were appr…Read more
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8IV. Metaphysical foundations for natural scienceIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. pp. 121-157. 1990.
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8FrontmatterIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. 1990.
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 |