• Divisibility and Cartesian Extension
    with Kurt Smith
    In Daniel Garber & Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume V, Oxford University Press Uk. 2010.
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    Meaning in Spinoza's Method (review)
    with Noa Shein
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (1): 118-119. 2005.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Meaning in Spinoza’s MethodAlan Nelson and Noa SheinAaron V. Garrett. Meaning in Spinoza’s Method. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 240. Cloth, $60.00.This is a book about some fundamental aspects of Spinoza's mature metaphysics. The principal focus is on Part I of the Ethics concerning infinite substance, and on Part V concerning the intuitive knowledge that is the goal of philosophy. Within this foc…Read more
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    King I Sit
    Mediaevalia 8 189-210. 1982.
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    Cartesian Innateness
    In Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes, Blackwell. 2007.
    This chapter contains section titled: Acknowledgments References and Further Reading.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction I II.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV V.
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    This chapter contains section titled: The Simplicity of Descarteś Proofs and the Relation between Them The Causal Argument The Ontological Argument.
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    The Great Arnauld and Some of His Philosophical Correspondents
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (3): 461-463. 1996.
    BOOK REVIEWS 461 Edwin Curley's "Notes on a Neglected Masterpiece: Spinoza and the Science of Hermeneutics" takes as its starting point Savan's claim that Spinoza is the "founder of scientific hermeneutics." Rejccting the most extreme interpretation of this claim -- i.e., that Spinoza created scientific hermeneutics ex nihilo -- Curlcy carefully compares Spi- noza's contributions to Biblical criticism with those of Hobbes and Isaac La Peyr~re, and concludes that Spinoza's work possesses, in addi…Read more
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    Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (review)
    Philosophical Review 113 (1): 136-139. 2004.
    Everyone interested in Leibniz ought to read this fine, stimulating book. It is admirably written in the tradition exemplified by the references below and will especially appeal to those familiar with the analytical exposition in those works.
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    Descartes’s interrelated theories of attributes and conceptual distinction (or rational distinc­tion) are developed. This follows Nolan (1997) in identifying substances and their attributes as they exist apart from the mind’s concepts. This resource is then used to articulate a solution to a famous problem about Descartes’s concept of substance. The key is that the concept of substance is itself to be regarded as an attribute of independently existing things.
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    Book review (review)
    with Finngeir Hiorth, Lawrence Nolan, Igor Primoratz, and Edward Slowik
    Philosophia 27 (3-4): 663-676. 1999.
  • Saving Economics From Philosophy
    Dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago. 1984.
    Chapter 1 is introductory. It identifies a cluster of philosophical problems that arise in the foundations of neoclassical economic theory. Issues growing out of the unusually tenuous connection between the theory and the world are singled out as especially troublesome. Is it, after all, possible for economics to look more like an empirical science like physics than like of branch of mathematics? ;Chapter 2 argues that economic methodology has been constrained by the application of faulty philos…Read more
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    Are economic kinds natural
    In C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 14--102. 1990.
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    Problem section
    with Joshua Hoffman and Robert Hoffman
    Philosophia 8 (4): 847-851. 1979.
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    Social Science and the Mental
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 15 (1): 194-209. 1990.
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    A Companion to Rationalism (edited book)
    Wiley-Blackwell. 2005.
    This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day. Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers Critically analyses the concept of rationalism Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought Organised chronologically Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are …Read more
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    The Structure of Cartesian Sensations
    Analytic Philosophy 54 (1): 107-116. 2013.