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17Leibniz’s “On Generosity,” With English TranslationThe Leibniz Review 12 15-21. 2002.The essay “On Generosity” holds a special place among Leibniz’s ethical writings. In no other text does Leibniz give such prominence to the concept of generosity, or relate it to his central doctrine of justice as the charity of the wise. The circumstances of the piece’s composition are uncertain. Watermark dating of the paper places it in the period 1686-1687. The Academy editors suggest a connection between it and a text by an unknown author, “Discours sur la generosité,” a transcription of wh…Read more
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H. ISHIGURO "Leibniz's philosophy of logic and language" (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 15 (1): 127. 1994.
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2Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethicsIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed & Michael A. Rosenthal (eds.), Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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7Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (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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1Malebranche's Theodicy,'S. Nadler'In Steven Nadler (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Malebranche, Cambridge University Press. pp. 165--89. 2000.
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74Leibniz: nature and freedom (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought. Where earlier English-language scholarship understood Leibniz's philosophy as issuing from his preoccupations with logic and language, recent work has recommended an account on which theological, ethical, and metaphysical themes figure centrally in Leibniz's thought throughout his career. The significance of these themes to the development …Read more
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4Truth, Predication and the Complete Concept of an Individual SubstanceStudia Leibnitiana 130-144. 1988.
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9Reply to Jolley’s Review of Leibniz and the Rational Order of NatureThe Leibniz Review 5 22-26. 1995.Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature is intended to offer a broad panorama on Leibniz’s philosophy. Although necessarily selective in its focus, it aspires to a comprehensive understanding of how the different parts of Leibniz’s philosophy — theodicy, ethics, metaphysics, natural philosophy — fit together in a coherent and compelling fashion. In the book, I indicate some of the places where tensions threaten the unity of this scheme. My primary goal, however, is to reconstruct a system that …Read more
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11Oxford 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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2Leibniz on SpontaneityIn Donald Rutherford & J. A. Cover (eds.), Leibniz: nature and freedom, Oxford University Press. pp. 156--80. 2005.
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64Leibniz and the Problem of Monadic AggregationArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 76 (1): 65-90. 1994.
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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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17Nicholas 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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10Leibniz’ 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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54Leibniz and the Problem of Soul-Body UnionThe 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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339. Leibniz and the Stoics: The Consolations of TheodicyIn Michael J. Latzer & Elmar J. Kremer (eds.), The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto Press. pp. 138-164. 2001.
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