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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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62Leibniz 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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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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