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    Leibniz as idealist
    Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 4 141-90. 2008.
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    Descartes' ethics
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
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    The Science of the Individual (review)
    The Leibniz Review 16 125-139. 2006.
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    Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VII (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 2015.
    Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The artic…Read more
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    Salvation as a state of mind: The place of acquiescentia in Spinoza's ethics
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (3). 1999.
    (1999). Salvation as a state of mind: The place of acquiescentia in spinoza's ethics. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 447-473. doi: 10.1080/09608789908571039
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    Leibniz’ Universal Jurisprudence (review)
    The Leibniz Review 7 85-94. 1997.
    Leibniz was introduced to the English-speaking world in the twentieth century by Bertrand Russell’s Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, a book that at once hailed the depth and elegance of Leibniz’s logico-metaphysical scheme and scorned his ethical theory. In the intervening years, Russell’s book has stimulated a large body of commentary, which has led to a sophisticated understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Leibniz’s metaphysics. Predictably, Leibniz’s practical philos…Read more
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    Leibniz and the Problem of Soul-Body Union
    The Leibniz Review 2 19-21. 1992.
    A number of recent authors have raised the question of Leibniz’s commitment, during the 1680s and after, to the reality of corporeal substances. In contrast to the standard reading of him as embracing early on a view of substance which is in all essential respects that of the “Monadology”, it has been argued that Leibniz is in fact inclined to recognize two distinct types of substance: on the one hand, unextended soul-like substances ; on the other hand, quasi-Aristotelian corporeal substances. …Read more
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    Introduction
    American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (4): 523-530. 2002.