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G.W. Leibniz, De Summa Rerum: Metaphysical Papers 1675-1676 (review)Philosophy in Review 13 40-42. 1993.
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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.Leibniz has often been described as holding to a kind of phenomenalism. Yet Leibniz did not have a single account of perception, or of the embodied mind, or of the monad, but a set of conflicting and mutually inconsistent accounts that preclude the possibility that there is any such thing as “Leibniz's System.” This difficulty raises problems of interpretation, since it is sometimes maintained that the principle of charity precludes the assignment of frankly inconsistent views to a philosopher. …Read more
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De Ipsa Natura. Sources of Leibniz's Doctrines of Force, Activity and Natural LawStudia Leibnitiana 19 (2): 148-172. 1987.Leibniz beschreibt sein philosophisches Anliegen oft als Versuch, bestimmte Formen, die von den modernen Philosophen verbannt waren, wieder herzustellen. Dieser Aufsatz erörtert den historischen Gang dieser Verbannung und Leibniz' Bemühen um eine Rehabilitierung der Begriffe Natur, Form und Kraft, wobei er jedoch okkulte, “barbarische” und überflüssige Zutaten zur Naturphilosophie vermeidet
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'Compossibility, Expression, Accommodation'In Donald Rutherford & J. A. Cover (eds.), Leibniz: nature and freedom, Oxford University Press. pp. 108--20. 2005.
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VII. Experience and the self: the New EssaysIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. pp. 232-267. 1990.
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Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 23 325-327. 2003.
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Kant on civilization, culture and moralisationIn Alix Cohen (ed.), Kant's Lectures on Anthropology: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2014.
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J. Cottingham, Reason, Will and SensationBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (1): 135-137. 1998.
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Donald Rutherford, Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature (review)Philosophy in Review 16 287-289. 1996.
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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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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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12. Monads, Forces, Causes (§ 80)In Hubertus Busche (ed.), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Monadologie, Akademie Verlag. pp. 211-221. 2009.
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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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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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Constancy, emergence, and illusions: Obstacles to a naturalistic theory of visionIn Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, University Park: Penn St University Press. 1993.
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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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IntroductionIn Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-6. 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 |