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54Readings in Modern Philosophy, Volume 1: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Associated Texts (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2000.This anthology offers the key works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.
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11Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot, 1633–1642 (review)Isis 95 124-125. 2004.
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The scholastic backgroundIn Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--425. 1998.
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5Le monde, l'homme by Rene Descartes; Annie Bitbol-Hesperies; Jean-Pierre Verdet (review)Isis 88 539-540. 1997.
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46The initial response to Galileo's lunar observationsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 32 (3): 571-581. 2001.
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2Descartes and Leibniz as readers of Suárez: theory of distinctions and principle of individuationIn Benjamin Hill & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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2Descartes, the first Cartesians, and logicIn Daniel Garber & Steven M. Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--241. 2003.
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44Mind-body interaction in cartesian philosophy: A reply to GarberSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 33-37. 1983.
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11Damned If You Do: Cartesians and Censorship, 1663–1706Perspectives on Science 2 (3): 255-274. 1994.I consider two events in late seventeenth-century philosophy: the condemnation of Cartesianism by the church, the throne, and the university and the noncondemnation of Gassendism by the same powers. What is striking about the two events is that both Cartesians and Gassendists accepted the same proposition deemed heretical. Thus, what was sufficient to condemn Cartesianism was not sufficient to condemn Gassendism. As a result, I suggest that to understand what is involved in condemnation one has …Read more
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64Descartes and the last ScholasticsCornell University Press. 1999.The volume touches upon many topics and themes shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form; infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the ...
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96Descartes as critic of Galileo's scientific methodologySynthese 67 (1). 1986.Some philosophers of science suggest that philosophical assumptions must influence historical scholarship, because history (like science) has no neutral data and because the treatment of any particular historical episode is going to be influenced to some degree by one's prior philosophical conceptions of what is important in science. However, if the history of science must be laden with philosophical assumptions, then how can the history of science be evidence for the philosophy of science? Woul…Read more
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21Mind‐Body Interaction in Cartesian Philosophy: A Reply to GarberSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 33-37. 1983.
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