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    Sixteenth Century philosophy was a unique synthesis of several philosophical frameworks, a blend of old and new, including but not limited to scholasticism, humanism, Neo-Thomism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism. It was a century that witnessed culturally and philosophically significant moments whose impact still is felt today—some examples include the emergence of Jesuits, the height of the witchcraze, the Protestant Reformation, the rise of philosophical skepticism, Pietro Pomponazzi’s controver…Read more
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    Francisco Suárez
    The Philosophers' Magazine 62 63-64. 2013.
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    Book Review Section 1 (review)
    with Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Laurie M. O'reilly, Audrey Thompson, Malcolm B. Campbell, Eric R. Jackson, Richard A. Brosio, Andra Makler, and Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
    Educational Studies 27 (3): 242-301. 1996.
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    Book Review Section 2 (review)
    with Louise M. Berman, Michael Jb Jackson, Scott Walter, Lois Weiner, Edward L. Edmonds, Mark B. Ginsburg, Donald Vandenberg, and Karen L. Biraimah
    Educational Studies 25 (2): 163-189. 1994.
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    John Locke's Christianity by Diego Lucci
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2): 331-332. 2023.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:John Locke's Christianity by Diego LucciBenjamin HillDiego Lucci. John Locke's Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 244. Hardback, $99.99.Diego Lucci's John Locke's Christianity is a fabulous work of scholarship—meticulously researched, well argued, and judicious. It should be required reading for everyone interested in John Locke's thought.In the introduction, Lucci aligns himself with John Dunn…Read more
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    Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science to fill explanatory gaps seen to be left by reductivist and eliminativist accounts of previous generations. This volume revisits the fortunes of causal powers as scientific explanatory principles across history to foster deeper discussions about their metaphysical natures.
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    “What skills and capacities do you think the next generation of early modern scholars most need to advance the field?
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    Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (edited book)
    with Margaret Cameron and Robert J. Stainton
    Springer. 2016.
    For the first time in English, this anthology offers a comprehensive selection of primary sources in the history of philosophy of language. Beginning with a detailed introduction contextualizing the subject, the editors draw out recurring themes, including the origin of language, the role of nature and convention in fixing form and meaning, language acquisition, ideal languages, varieties of meanings, language as a tool, and the nexus of language and thought, linking them to representative texts…Read more
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    Peter R. Anstey. John Locke and Natural Philosophy. Pp. xii+252. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. $65.00 (review)
    Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2 (2): 382-387. 2012.
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    It has long been recognized that 'idea' was Locke's central epistemological concept. So important was it that most commentators consider it necessary to first fix what that concept was before attempting to interpret Locke's epistemology. However, identifying what it was is only possible by reconstructing how it functioned within the development and defense of his epistemology. Traditionally, in other words, scholars have approached the question the wrong way around. This dissertation is devoted …Read more
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    JHP Announcements
    with Santiago Orrego Sanchez
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (1): 175. 2007.
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    Francisco Suárez
    The Philosophers' Magazine 62 (62): 63-64. 2013.
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    The Philosophy of Francisco Surez (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2012.
    During the seventeenth century Francisco Surez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age: he is now reemerging as a major subject of critical and historical investigation. A leading team of scholars explore his work on ethics, metaphysics, ontology, and theology. This will be the starting-point for future research on Surez
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    Locke’s Touchy Subjects: Materialism and Immortality by Nicholas Jolley (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 54 (3): 503-504. 2016.
    Jolley’s slim book joins a slew of recent work on Locke’s metaphysics of persons. The two “touchy subjects” of the title were the immortality of an immaterial soul and the resurrection of the same body. Jolley’s interpretive thesis is that Locke propounded a form of weak materialism, that is, property dualism. He set this up as a corrective to the common reading that Locke was agnostic about the metaphysical state of the soul. As Jolley sees it, Locke’s thinking in support of weak materialism is…Read more
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    Reconciling Locke’s Definition of Knowledge with Knowing Reality
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 44 (1): 91-105. 2006.
    A common criticism of Locke’s ideational definition of knowledge is that it contradicts his accounts of knowledge’s reality and sensitive knowledge. Here it is argued that the ideational definiton of knowledge is compatible with knowledge of idea-independent reality. The key is Locke’s notion of the signification. Nominal agreements obtain if and only if the ideas’ descriptive contents are the ground for truth; real agreements obtain only if their total denotation are the grounds for truth. The …Read more
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    Locke’s modes
    Southwest Philosophy Review 20 (1): 173-182. 2004.
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    Of liberty and necessity: The free will debate in eighteenth-century British philosophy (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (4). 2008.
    Early modern historians and philosophers interested in human freedom can profitably read this book, which provides a synoptic view of the eighteenth-century British free will debate from Locke through Dugald Stewart. Scholars have not ignored the debate, but as they have tended to focus on canonical figures , the author’s inclusion of lesser-known yet significant thinkers such as Lord Kames, Jonathan Edwards, and James Beattie is especially welcome. The main thesis of James Harris’s book is that…Read more
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    Hume’s Skeptical Crisis: A Textual Study (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (4): 530-531. 2010.
    In this book, Robert Fogelin revisits much that was covered in his Hume’s Skepticism in the Treatise of Human Nature . Even so, there is a wealth of new material here, reflecting a number of developments in Fogelin’s thinking about Hume’s THN. I shall highlight three.In the earlier book, Fogelin had pushed a strongly skeptical interpretation of THN. Now, however, he has mitigated his reading somewhat, and is offering “a more balanced account of the relationship between Hume’s naturalism and his …Read more