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157Consciousness without Existence: Descartes, Severino and the Interpretation of ExperienceIn Andrea Strazzoni & Marco Sgarbi (eds.), Reading Descartes. Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning, Firenze University Press. pp. 169-198. 2023.Consciousness is connected with the fact that a subject is aware and open to the manifestation of whatever appears. Existence, by contrast, is used to express the fact that something is given in experience, is present, or is real. Usually, the two notions are taken to be somehow related. This chapter suggests that existence is at best introduced as a metaphysical (or meta-experiential) concept that inevitably escapes the domain of conscious experience. In order to illustrate this claim, two case…Read more
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49The Ontology of Determination: From Descartes to SpinozaScience in Context 28 (4): 515-543. 2015.This paper argues that Spinoza's notions of “conatus” and “power of acting” are derived by means of generalization from the notions of “force of motion” and “force of determination” that Spinoza discussed in his Principles of Cartesian Philosophy to account for interactions among bodies on the basis of their degrees of contrariety. I argue that in the Ethics, Spinoza's ontology entails that interactions must always be accounted for in terms of degrees of “agreement or disagreement in nature” amo…Read more
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49Before the Conatus Doctrine: Spinoza’s Correspondence with Willem van BlijenberghArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 98 (2): 144-168. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 98 Heft: 2 Seiten: 144-168.
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22Expanding the Corpus of Early Modern Natural Philosophy: Initial Results and a Review of Available SourcesJournal of Early Modern Studies 10 (1): 107-115. 2021.
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22Mapping the evolution of early modern natural philosophy: corpus collection and authority acknowledgementAnnals of Science 79 (1): 1-39. 2022.ABSTRACT Although natural philosophy underwent dramatic transformations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, studying its evolution as a whole remains problematic. In this paper, we present a method that integrates traditional reading and computational tools in order to distil from different resources (the four existing Dictionaries of early modern philosophers and WorldCat) a representative corpus (consisting of 2,535 titles published in Latin, French, English, and German) for mappi…Read more
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22Spinoza’s Religion _Spinoza’s Religion_ , by Clare Carlisle, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2021, 272 pp., $29.95 / £25.00(hb), ISBN 978-06-91-17659-8 (review)Intellectual History Review 33 (4): 768-771. 2023.Spinoza is one of the most famous early modern philosophers. He is known as one of the forefathers of “Radical Enlightenment”, and his attacks against anthropomorphic views of God and superstitious...
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15Do you need to know in order to act? The case for a Suárezian legacy in early modern occasionalismSouthern Journal of Philosophy 61 (3): 506-526. 2023.The goal of this article is to suggest that in early modern discussions of agency and causal efficacy it is possible to detect an attempt at pushing to its extreme consequences a specific account of agency and causality that was developed in late scholastic thought. More specifically, the article examines Francisco Suárez's (1548–1617) account of freedom and how this relates to his views on efficient causality. Despite Suárez's careful way of differentiating between natural (necessary) and human…Read more
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14Johann Christoph Sturm’s natural philosophy, with which Leibniz engages in “De ipsa natura”, as well as Petrus van Musschenbroek’s epistemology, constitute important steps in the process of the speciation of physics. In this case, speciation is understood as the process through which the explanation of natural phenomena via empirical regularities comes to define the whole domain of the newly established niche of physics, to the exclusion both of teleology and efficient causality.
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13Spinoza on the Passions and the SelfIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.In the third part of the Ethics, Spinoza provides a naturalistic picture of human psychology. Spinoza's account distinguishes between active and passive affects. This chapter discusses how Spinoza's theory of affects demonstrates that the self with which human individuals identify in daily life is the result of a complex and constantly on‐going imaginative construction shaped by desires and causal interactions with other individuals and external causes. The core of the affective field is occupie…Read more
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10A Spinozistic approach to relational autonomy : the case of prostitutionIn Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green & Andrea Sangiacomo (eds.), Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others, Eup. pp. 194-211. 2019.
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8The meaning of existence ( bhava) in the Pāli discourses of the BuddhaBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (6): 931-952. 2022.This paper seeks to reconstruct the meaning of existence in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha by considering how the notion is used in the most systematic contexts in which it appears, and how it could be best interpreted. The discourses are concerned with how existence is used to support and consolidate a certain attitude of ownership, appropriation, and entitlement over contents of experience, in virtue of which one can claim that this or that is ‘mine’. The problem with this move is that it s…Read more
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5Defect of Knowledge and Practice of Virtue in Geulincx’s OccasionalismStudia Leibnitiana 46 (1): 46-63. 2014.
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1Notes on ContributorsIn Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green & Andrea Sangiacomo (eds.), Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others, Eup. pp. 212-212. 2019.
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IndexIn Aurelia Armstrong, Keith Green & Andrea Sangiacomo (eds.), Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: Being with Others, Eup. pp. 213-222. 2019.
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Eugenio Coseriu, Geschicthe der Sprachphilosophie/Storia della filosofia del linguaggio, edizione italiana a cura di Donatella Di CesareRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (2): 383. 2011.
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Saverio Ansaldi, Giordano Bruno. Une philosophie de la métamorphoseRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 66 (3): 591. 2011.
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Geulincx and the Quod Nescis principle : a conservative revolutionIn Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford University Press. 2019.