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146Helvétius and his Critics: Esteem, Benevolence and the Question of the Diminution of the IndividualHistoria Philosophica 20 (1): 193-204. 2022.How persuasive are Rousseau’s and Diderot’s objections against Helvétius’s view that it is always interest that guides our esteem? Against Helvétius’s view that we always esteem ourselves in others, Rousseau objects that we can esteem the ideas that we recognize to be superior to our own ideas; against Helvétius’s idea that particu-lar societies and nations can only esteem ideas that are useful for them, Diderot objects that we can experience and esteem the feeling of universal benevolence. Howe…Read more
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137Material Causes and Incomplete Entities in Gallego de la Serna’s Theory of Animal GenerationIn Ohad Nachtomy & Justin E. H. Smith (eds.), The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy, Oup Usa. 2014.This article examines some aspects of the natural philosophy of Juan Gallego de la Serna, royal physician to the Spanish kings Philip III and Philip IV. In his account of animal generation, Gallego criticizes widely accepted views: (1) the view that animal seeds are animated, and (2) the alternative view that animal seeds, even if not animated, possess active potencies sufficient for the development of animal souls. According to his view, animal seeds are purely material beings. This, of course,…Read more
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136Substance Monism and Substance Pluralism in Leibniz's Metaphysical Papers 1675-1676Studia Leibnitiana 33 (2). 2001.Neuere Interpretationen von Leibniz' Notizen zur Metaphysik aus den Jahren 1675-1676 tendieren dazu, diese Texte im Licht eines spinozistischen Substanz-Monismus zu lesen. Obwohl es für eine solche Interpretation überzeugende Anhaltspunkte gibt, vertritt Leibniz jedoch in denselben Texten auch einen Substanzen-Pluralismus in Bezug auf geistige Substanzen. Substanz-Monismus und Substanzen-Pluralismus scheinen miteinander vereinbar zu sein, weil für Leibniz, ähnlich wie für Descartes in den Princi…Read more
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135Daniel 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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134Sennert and Leibniz on Animate AtomsIn J. E. H. Smith & Ohad Nachtomy (eds.), Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz, Springer. pp. 115-130. 2011.
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132Catherine Wilson. Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008. Pp. 304. $75.00 ; $35.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (1): 200-203. 2012.
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132Leibniz and the Sixteenth-Century Controversy over Substance MonismRevue Roumaine de Philosophie 63 (1). 2019.
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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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129Santorio 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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128Atoms and minds in Walter Charleton's theory of animal generationIn Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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125Twin-Consciousnesses and the Identity of Indiscernibles in Leibniz’s Nouveaux EssaisIn François Duchesneau and Jérémie Griard (ed.), Leibniz selon les Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain. pp. 189-202. 2006.
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122Bentham and Helvétius on the Morality of the Desire for EsteemRivista di Filosofia 113 (2): 341-360. 2022.The present article draws attention to some specific similarities between Helvétius and Bentham in their treatments of the morality of the desire for esteem. These similarities can be observed in three fields: (1) Helvétius and Bentham integrate the desire for esteem into more general accounts of how sensible interest motivates human action; (2) they analyse various everyday situations in which the desire for esteems has consequences that are detrimental for social life; and (3) they emphasize r…Read more
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121Zabarella and the Early Leibniz on the Diachronic Identity of Living BeingsStudia Leibnitiana 47 (1): 86-102. 2015.
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121Jacob Schegk on Plants, Medicaments, and the Question of EmergenceIn Antonio Clericuzio, Paolo Pecere & Charles Wolfe (eds.), Mechanism, Life and Mind in Modern Philosophy. pp. 27-47. 2022.The view that living beings as well as plant-based medicaments possess causal properties that are caused by the causal properties of their constituents, without being reducible to the combination of the causal properties of these constituents goes back to ancient thinkers such as Alexander of Aphrodisias and Johannes Philoponus. In the early modern period, this view was not only criticized by natural philosophers taking a reductionist stance; it was also criticized by Neo-Platonic thinkers such …Read more
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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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117Aquinas and Soto on Derogatory Judgement and Noncomparative JusticeHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (4): 411-427. 2012.
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115The Question of Emergence in Protestant Natural Philosophy, 1540–1610.Hungarian Philosophical Review 61 (1): 7-22. 2017.
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114Complaisance and the Question of Autonomy in the French Women Moralists, 1650–1710In Sandrine Berges & Alberto L. Siani (eds.), Women Philosophers on Autonomy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge. 2018.
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114Leibniz und Besold über Bündnisrecht und NaturrechtIn Leibniz und das Naturrecht, . pp. 103-118. 2019.
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109Review of Irene Dingel, Michael Kempe and Wenchao Li (eds.), Leibniz in Mainz. Europäische Dimensionen der Mainzer Wirkungsperiode (review)Studia Leibnitiana 51 141-143. 2019.
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108Cesalpino on Sensitive Powers and the Question of Divine ImmanenceIn Fabrizio Baldassarri & Craig Edwin Martin (eds.), Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism, Bloomsbury. pp. 69-87. 2023.
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108D’Holbach on Self-Esteem, Justice, and CosmopolitanismEighteenth-Century Studies 49 (4): 439-453. 2016.
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105Rezension von Martin Mulsow und Asaph Ben-Tov (eds), Knowledge and Profanation (review)Quellen Und Forschungen Aus Italienischen Archiven Und Bibliotheken 102 569-570. 2022.
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97Leibniz vs. Lamy: How does confused perception unite soul and body?In Marcelo Dascal (ed.), The Practice of Reason: Leibniz and His Controversies, John Benjamins. pp. 7--169. 2010.
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96Review of Girolamo Fracastoro, De sympathia et antipathia rerum (review)Renaissance Quarterly 62 996-998. 2009.
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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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93Acerca de la ‘usucapio,’ la presunción y la justicia internacional según LeibnizRevista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 51 (1): 357-365. 2012.
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 |