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17The Divine Order, the Human Order, and the Order of Nature: Historical Perspectives, edited by Eric WatkinsFaith and Philosophy 31 (4): 486-490. 2014.
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72Malebranche on the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Particular VolitionsJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (2): 227-255. 2016.among nicolas malebranche’s most influential contributions to philosophy are his defense of occasionalism, his highly original theodicy, and his philosophical method elaborated in greatest detail in his magnum opus De la Recherche de la vérité. In his account of occasionalism, Malebranche argues that finite things have no causal power and that God is the only true causal agent. Malebranche’s theodicy—his attempt to reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the existence of an all-good and …Read more
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57Descartes’s Ballet: His Doctrine of the Will and His Political PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 47 (1). 2008.Richard Watson’s Descartes’s Ballet engages three main questions uncommon to traditional Cartesian scholarship: Did Descartes script La Naissance de la Paix, the ballet performed in honor of Queen Christina’s twenty-third birthday in December 1649? Did Descartes have a political philosophy? Did Descartes read the French dramatist Pierre Corneille? Watson answers no, yes, and yes.By emphasizing the complete lack of evidence that Descartes wrote La Naissance de la Paix, Watson disarms the suggesti…Read more
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2Espace et métaphysique de Gassendi à Kant: Anthologie (review)Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 140 (2): 246-248. 2015.
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