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87The Cambridge companion to early modern philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy is a comprehensive introduction to the central topics and changing shape of philosophical inquiry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy, extending from Montaigne, Bacon and Descartes through Hume and Kant. During this period, philosophers initiated and responded to major intellectual developments in natural science, religion, and politics, transforming in …Read more
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10The Leibniz-des Bosses Correspondence (edited book)Yale University Press. 2007.This volume is a critical edition of the ten-year correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of Europe’s most influential early modern thinkers, and Bartholomew Des Bosses, a Jesuit theologian who was keen to bring together Leibniz’s philosophy and the Aristotelian philosophy and religious doctrines accepted by his order. The letters offer crucial insights into Leibniz’s final metaphysics and into the intellectual life of the eighteenth century. Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford p…Read more
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16Nicholas Jolley, "The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (4): 678. 1991.
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17Leibniz’s ‘New System’ and Associated Contemporary Texts (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 39 (2): 229-230. 1999.
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65Leibniz's "analysis of multitude and phenomena into unities and reality"Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (4): 525-552. 1990.
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178Freedom as a Philosophical Ideal: Nietzsche and His AntecedentsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 54 (5). 2011.Abstract Nietzsche defends an ideal of freedom as the achievement of a ?higher human being?, whose value judgments are a product of a rigorous scrutiny of inherited values and an expression of how the answers to ultimate questions of value are ?settled in him?. I argue that Nietzsche's view is a recognizable descendent of ideas advanced by the ancient Stoics and Spinoza, for whom there is no contradiction between the realization of freedom and the affirmation of fate, and who restrict this freed…Read more
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136Salvation as a state of mind: The place of acquiescentia in Spinoza's ethicsBritish 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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10Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume VI (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents 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.
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