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462Descartes and the scientific revolution: Some Kuhnian reflectionsPerspectives on Science 9 (4): 405-422. 2001.Important to Kuhn's account of scientific change is the observation that when paradigms are in competition with one another, there is a curious breakdown of rational argument and communication between adherents of competing programs. He attributed this to the fact that competing paradigms are incommensurable. The incommensurability thesis centrally involves the claim that there is a deep conceptual gap between competing paradigms in science. In this paper I argue that in one important case of co…Read more
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428Understanding interaction: What Descartes should have told ElisabethSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 15-32. 1983.
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241Mind, Body and the Laws of Nature in Descartes and LeibnizMidwest Studies in Philosophy 8 (1): 105-133. 1983.
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175The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1998.The Cambridge History of 17th Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge histories of philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the volumes …Read more
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131Superheroes in the History of Philosophy: Spinoza, Super-RationalistJournal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 507-521. 2015.everyone loves superheroes. superheroes, of course, have incredible powers; they can leap tall buildings in a single bound, excel in combat, and have X-ray vision. But, in addition, superheroes have a kind of simplicity of motive and focus that makes them pure and comprehensible in the way in which the people we actually know rarely are. For Superman it is about Truth, Justice, and the American Way. For Batman it is all about fighting evil: defeating the Joker, the Riddler, and other nefarious c…Read more
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122Leibniz: Body, Substance, MonadOxford University Press. 2009.Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances.
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111Leibniz on body, matter and extensionSupplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 78 (1): 23-40. 2004.This paper explores Leibniz's conception of body and extension in the 1680s and 1690s. It is argued that one of Leibniz's central aims is to undermine the Cartesian conception of extended substance, and replace it with a conception on which what is basic to body is force. In this way, Leibniz intends to reduce extension to something metaphysically more basic in just the way that the mechanists reduce sensible qualities to size, shape and motion. It is also argued that this move is quite distinct…Read more
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108Geometry and Monadology: Leibniz's Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space, by Vincenzo De RisiMind 119 (474): 472-478. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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105Descartes, The Aristotelians, and The Revolution That Did Not Happen In 1637The Monist 71 (4): 471-486. 1988.Descartes is, for us, the father of modern philosophy, the figure with whom the history of our philosophy begins, the philosopher who ended scholasticism once and for all and turned aside the excesses of Renaissance thought. And the Discours de la méthode and Essais is the work in which Descartes seems to have declared his revolution, and announced to the world his independence from the history of philosophy. In the opening pages of his first published writing, Descartes wrote
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102Locke, Berkeley, and Corpuscular ScepticismIn Colin Murray Turbayne (ed.), Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive Essays, University of Minnesota Press. 1982.
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97Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.
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93On the frontlines of the scientific revolution: How mersenne learned to love GalileoPerspectives on Science 12 (2): 135-163. 2004.: Marin Mersenne was central to the new mathematical approach to nature in Paris in the 1630s and 1640s. Intellectually, he was one of the most enthusiastic practitioners of that program, and published a number of influential books in those important decades. But Mersenne started his career in a rather different way. In the early 1620s, Mersenne was known in Paris primarily as a writer on religious topics, and a staunch defender of Aristotle against attacks by those who would replace him by a ne…Read more
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90Kant and the Early Moderns (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2008."This book is a very important contribution to the study of the history of modern philosophy.
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84G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Essays (edited book)Hackett. 1989.Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide range of Leibniz's work--letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions over a fifty-year period--heightens the challenge of preparing an edition of his writings in English translation from the French and Latin.
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77Learning from the past: Reflections on the role of history in the philosophy of scienceSynthese 67 (1). 1986.In recent years philosophers of science have turned away from positivist programs for explicating scientific rationality through detailed accounts of scientific procedure and turned toward large-scale accounts of scientific change. One important motivation for this was better fit with the history of science. Paying particular attention to the large-scale theories of Lakatos and Laudan I argue that the history of science is no better accommodated by the new large-scale theories than it was by the…Read more
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66Robert Merrihew Adams and LeibnizThe Leibniz Review 22 1-8. 2012.This essay reviews Robert Merrihew Adams’ approaches to the philosophy of Leibniz, both his general methodological approaches, and some of the main themes of his work. It attempts to assess his contribution both to the study of Leibniz and to the history of philosophy more generally
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60Does History Have a Future? Some Reflections on Bennett and Doing Philosophy HistoricallyIn Stewart Duncan & Antonia LoLordo (eds.), Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses, Routledge. pp. 347. 2013.
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60Geneviéve Rodis-Lewis, Descartes: His Life and ThoughtsBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 11 (2). 1999.none
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57Notice of Christia Mercer, Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and DevelopmentThe Leibniz Review 10 149-150. 2000.
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57Leibniz 's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study by Catherine Wilson and Leibniz and Arnauld: A Commentaryon their Correspondence by Robert C. Sleigh, Jr (review)Journal of Philosophy 89 (3): 151-165. 1992.
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53Descartes and Method in 1637PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 225-236. 1988.This paper attempts to characterize the method that Descartes put forward in the Discours de la methode of 1637 and the earlier Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii. It is argued that because if important changes in Descartes ' scientific and epistemological programs, Descartes abandons the method of his earlier years at just the moment that he makes it public in the Discours
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51Descartes and Spinoza on Persistance and ConatusStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 10 43-68. 1994.
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49Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian ScienceCambridge University Press. 2000.This volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the pre-eminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian program illuminate each other, a question rarely treated in the existing literature. Amongst the specific topics discussed in the essays are Descartes' celebrated method, his demand for …Read more
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