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Malebranche, Freedom, and the Divided MindIn P. Easton & K. Smith (eds.), Gods and Giants in Early Modern Philosophy, Brill. pp. 194-216. 2015.In this paper I argue that according to Malebranche mental attention is the corrective to epistemic error and moral lapse and constitutes the essence of human freedom. Moreover, I show how this conception of human freedom is both morally significant and compatible with occasionalism. By attending to four distinctions made by Malebranche throughout his writings we can begin to understand first, what it means for human beings to exercise their freedom in a way that has some meaningful consequence,…Read more
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Locke and LimborchIn Jessica Gordon-Roth & Shelley Weinberg (eds.), The Lockean Mind, Routledge. 2021.Philippus van Limborch was a friend and correspondent of Locke’s for twenty years. The aspect of their correspondence that interests us here unfolds across 1700–1702 on the topic of human freedom. In Section 1, I outline Limborch’s view of freedom, which is one of indifference. In Section 2, I describe why, despite Limborch’s insistence that their positions were similar, Locke could not agree with Limborch’s view and even modified his account to make the difference more apparent. I conclude in S…Read more
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Les Malebranchismes des Lumières: Études sur les réceptions contrastées de la philosophie de Malebranche, fin XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (review)Revue Philosophique de la France Et de L’Etranger 3 384-386. 2016.
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Malebranche on mindIn Rebecca Copenhaver (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages (The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Band 4), . 2018.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
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