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3Chaves, Mark. American Religion: Contemporary Trends (review)Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 25 (1-2): 189-191. 2013.
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3Introduction: Social inequality: Rousseau in retrospectCanadian Journal of Philosophy. Supplementary Volume 25 (Supplement): 1-30. 1999.
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3Introduction — Social Inequality: Rousseau in RetrospectCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 25 1-30. 1999.
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2IX. Critical and compensatory metaphysicsIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. pp. 304-331. 1990.
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2AbbreviationsIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. 1990.
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2Some Motives and Incentives to the Study of Natural PhilosophyIn Moritz Epple & Claus Zittel (eds.), Science as cultural practice, Akademie Verlag. pp. 13-30. 2010.
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2Descartes and the Corporeal Mind: Some Implications of the Regius AffairIn John Schuster, Stephen Gaukroger & John Sutton (eds.), Descartes' Natural Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 659--79. 2000.
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2Edward Craig, The Mind of God and the Works of Man Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (7): 254-257. 1988.
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1Is the history of philosophy good for philosophy?In Tom Sorell & Graham Alan John Rogers (eds.), Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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1IndexIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. pp. 345-350. 1990.
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1VIII. The problem of theodicyIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. pp. 268-303. 1990.
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1Kant and the speculative sciences of originsIn Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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1Book reviews (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (1): 127-142. 1998.The Oxford Francis Bacon, VI: Philosophical Studies c. 1611‐ c. 1619. Edited with introduction, notes and commentaries by Graham Rees, with facing‐page translations by Graham Rees and Michael Edwards. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996, pp. 503. £80.00. ISBN 0–19–812290‐X Acta Comeniana. Internationale Revue für Studien über J. A. Comenius und Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit. International Review of Comenius Studies and Early Modern Intellectual History. Volume 11. 280 pp. US$22.00. Descartes's Du…Read more
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1ContentsIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. 1990.
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The Illusory Nature of Leibniz's SystemIn Rocco J. Gennaro & Charles Huenemann (eds.), New essays on the rationalists, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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Pt. 2. Themes. Lucretius and the history of scienceIn Stuart Gillespie & Philip R. Hardie (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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Simone de Beauvoir and Human DignityIn Emily R. Grosholz (ed.), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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What (Else) Was Behind the Newtonian Rejection of 'Hypotheses'?In Peter R. Anstey & Alberto Vanzo (eds.), Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge. 2019.Newton’s famous Hypotheses non fingo raises many questions. While he castigated the Cartesians for their vortex hypothesis, and his follower Cotes attacked mechanical chemistry, Newton himself ventured many hypotheses, notably in his Opticks, the Queries to the Opticks and in the last book of the Principia. Although it is true that Newton, unlike Descartes, fit his data to mathematical models, what he said about hypotheses seems straightforwardly false. To explain this situation, Wilson explores…Read more
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The explanation of consciousness and the interpretation of philosophical textsIn Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.), Interpretation: Ways of Thinking About the Sciences and the Arts, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2010.
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Thomas Holden: The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to KantBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (3). 2005.
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Constancy, emergence, and illusions: Obstacles to a naturalistic theory of visionIn Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, University Park: Penn St University Press. 1993.
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 |