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90Acerca de la ‘usucapio,’ la presunción y la justicia internacional según LeibnizRevista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 51 (1): 357-365. 2012.
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84Nicolaus TaurellusIn Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. pp. 1-12. 2012.
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146Metaphilosophie und das Prinzip des Widerspruchs: Leibniz, Wolff und Du ChâteletIn Ruth Hagengruber & Hartmut Hecht (eds.), Emilie du Châtelet Und Die Deutsche Aufklärung, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 79-98. 2019.
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172Cartesian Logic and Locke’s Critique of MaximsIn Philippe Hamou & Martine Pécharman (eds.), Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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108Leibniz und Besold über Bündnisrecht und NaturrechtIn Leibniz und das Naturrecht, . pp. 103-118. 2019.
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117Zabarella and the Early Leibniz on the Diachronic Identity of Living BeingsStudia Leibnitiana 47 (1): 86-102. 2015.
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87Renaissance Aristotelianism and the Conciliatory Approach to Individuation in the Early LeibnizIn Leibniz’ Rezeption der Aristotelischen Logik und Metaphysik, . pp. 257-272. 2016.
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133Daniel Sennert and the Late Aristotelian Controversy over the Natural Origin of Animal SoulsIn Animals: New Essays, Philosophia. pp. 75-99. 2016.
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151Common Notions and Immortality in Digby and the Early LeibnizIn Han Thomas Adriaenssen & Laura Georgescu (eds.), The Philosophy of Kenelm Digby (1603–1665), Springer. 2022.
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127Santorio and Leibniz on Natural Immortality: The Question of Emergence and the Question of Emanative CausationIn Jonathan Barry & Fabrizio Bigotti (eds.), Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine, . pp. 191-216. 2022.
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216Christoph Besold on confederation rights and duties of esteem in diplomatic relationsIntellectual History Review 32 (1): 51-70. 2022.The self-worth of political communities is often understood to be an expression of their position in a hierarchy of power; if so, then the desire for self-worth is a source of competition and conflict in international relations. In early modern German natural law theories, one finds the alternative view, according to which duties of esteem toward political communities should reflect the degree to which they fulfill the functions of civil government. The present article offers a case study, exami…Read more
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243Esteem and self-esteem in early modern ethics and politics. An overviewIntellectual History Review 32 (1): 1-14. 2022.The self-worth of political communities is often understood to be an expression of their position in a hierarchy of power; if so, then the desire for self-worth is a source of competition and conflict in international relations. In early modern German natural law theories, one finds the alternative view, according to which duties of esteem toward political communities should reflect the degree to which they fulfill the functions of civil government. The present article offers a case study, exami…Read more
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219Nicolaus Taurellus on Vegetative Powers and the Question of Substance MonismIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Andreas Blank (eds.), Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer. pp. 199-219. 2021.This article analyzes the treatment of vegetative powers in Nicolaus Taurellus’s critical response to Andrea Cesalpino. Taurellus’s interest in this topic derives from larger metaphysical and theological concerns. His concern is that Cesalpino’s view that vegetative powers are due to a divine principle of activity inherent in natural particulars leads to a version of substance monism that is incompatible with the Christian doctrine of creation. Taurellus’s critique can best be understood within …Read more
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12Missing a Soul That Endows Bodies with Life: An IntroductionIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Andreas Blank (eds.), Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer. pp. 1-12. 2021.In the history of ideas, innumerable attempts to explain life and to define living activities have invoked the notion of the soul. Yet this theoretical entity seems to be an unfathomable thing. Difficulties beset the mere definition of it, and controversies span from whether the soul is a material body or an immaterial form, an immortal or a mortal thing, a subject of experiential or of theoretical knowledge, to the question of whether it is the subject of a specific discipline or rather of a sc…Read more
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131Confessionalization and Natural PhilosophyIn Dana Jalobeanu and David Marshall Miller (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution. pp. 111-127. 2022.
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94Ontologie und Metaphilosophie in Leibniz’ MühlenargumentIn Thomas Leinkauf & Stefan Meier-Oeser (eds.), Harmonie und Realität. Beiträge zu Leibniz’ später Philosophie. pp. 161-177. 2017.
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173Leibniz: sobre las presunciones y la simplicidad cognitivaTópicos: Revista de Filosofía 39 (1). 2020.Este artículo examina el rol del concepto de simplicidad cognitiva en la perspectiva de Leibniz sobre las presunciones. El tratamiento de Leibniz acerca de la conexión entre simplicidad y presunción puede aportar algo significativo a los enfoques contemporáneos sobre la plausibilidad de las presunciones. Esto se explica porque, a diferencia de los enfoques contemporáneos centrados en el lado pragmático de la simplicidad cognitiva, Leibniz ha procurado basarla en aquello que ocurre con mayor faci…Read more
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194Presumptions and Cognitive Simplicity in Leibniz and Early Modern Legal TheoryIn Tilmann Altwicker, Francis Cheneval & Matthias Mahlmann (eds.), Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie bei G. W. Leibniz, Mohr Siebeck. pp. 23-42. 2021.
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258The morality of the desire for esteem: Gassendi and the Augustinian challengeHistory of European Ideas 47 (8): 1228-1242. 2021.ABSTRACT Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) has not been perceived as one of the early modern philosophers who had something interesting to say about the role of the desire for esteem in social life and the moral duties connected with this desire. Nevertheless, in his Animadversiones in decimum librum Diogenis Laertii (1649) there are some scattered, but interrelated remarks about how the desire for esteem could be supportive of civic virtue. These remarks were written during the years when Jansenism b…Read more
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127Leibniz and the Sixteenth-Century Controversy over Substance MonismRevue Roumaine de Philosophie 63 (1). 2019.
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120Domingo de Soto on Doubts, Presumptions, and Noncomparative JusticeHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 32 (1): 1-18. 2015.
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106D’Holbach on Self-Esteem, Justice, and CosmopolitanismEighteenth-Century Studies 49 (4): 439-453. 2016.
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113The Question of Emergence in Protestant Natural Philosophy, 1540–1610.Hungarian Philosophical Review 61 (1): 7-22. 2017.
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18Vegetative Powers: The Roots of Life in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Natural Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2021.The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern pe…Read more
Andreas Blank
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt
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Alpen-Adria Universität KlagenfurtResearcher
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |