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61Qualities and Simple Ideas: Hume and his Debt to BerkeleyIn Lawrence Nolan (ed.), Primary and secondary qualities: the historical and ongoing debate, Oxford University Press. pp. 216-238. 2011.
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Divisibility and Cartesian ExtensionIn Daniel Garber & Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy: Volume V, Oxford University Press Uk. 2010.
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31Meaning in Spinoza's Method (review)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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5Cartesian InnatenessIn 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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4Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the SelfIn A Companion to Rationalism, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction I II.
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7The Rationalist ImpulseIn A Companion to Rationalism, Blackwell. 2005.This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV V.
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14Proofs for the Existence of GodIn Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations, Blackwell. 2006.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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28The Great Arnauld and Some of His Philosophical CorrespondentsJournal 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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21Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences: A Case for Methodological Pluralism (review)Philosophical Review 101 (3): 679-681. 1992.
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37Review of Alexander Rosenberg: Economics: mathematical politics or science of diminishing returns? (review)Ethics 104 (3): 637-639. 1994.
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Modality in Descartes's philosophyIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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30Review of John R. Searle: The Construction of Social Reality (review)Ethics 108 (1): 208-210. 1995.
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42Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations, by David CunningMind 121 (484): 1056-1059. 2012.
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Methodology, reality and economic orthodoxy A review of Tony Lawson's Economics and RealityJournal of Economic Methodology 10 (3): 420-424. 2003.
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48Substance 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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47Conceptual Distinctions and the Concept of Substance in DescartesProtoSociology 30 192-205. 2013.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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3Review of Alexander Rosenberg: Economics: mathematical politics or science of diminishing returns? (review)Ethics 104 (3): 637-639. 1994.
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Saving Economics From PhilosophyDissertation, 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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25Are economic kinds naturalIn C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 14--102. 1990.
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33Cognitive economy: An inquiry into the economic dimension of knowledgePhilosophia 23 (1-4): 323-331. 1994.
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85Cartesian Actualism in the Leibniz-Arnauld CorrespondenceCanadian Journal of Philosophy 23 (4). 1993.The correspondence between Leibniz and Arnauld was judged by Leibniz himself to be very useful for understanding his philosophy. Historians have concurred in this judgment. Leibniz did not find any philosophy of independent interest in the letters Arnauld sent him. Historians have, for the most part, also concurred in this finding. I shall argue that on one set of issues at least — modal metaphysics and free will — Arnauld accomplished more than facilitating Leibnizian elucidations. He held his …Read more
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62Book Review:The Construction of Social Reality. John R. Searle (review)Ethics 108 (1): 208-. 1997.
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178Proofs for the Existence of GodIn Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell to Descartes’ Meditations, Blackwell. pp. 104--121. 2006.We argue that Descartes’s theistic proofs in the ’Meditations’ are much simpler and straightforward than they are traditionally taken to be. In particular, we show how the causal argument of the "Third Meditation" depends on the intuitively innocent principle that nothing comes from nothing, and not on the more controversial principle that the objective reality of an idea must have a cause with at least as much formal reality. We also demonstrate that the so-called ontological "argument" of the …Read more
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