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24Perfection and Happiness in the Best Possible WorldIn Nicholas Jolley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, Cambridge University Press. pp. 382. 1994.
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25Leibniz's Ontological and Cosmological ArgumentsIn Nicholas Jolley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, Cambridge University Press. pp. 353. 1994.
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37Freedom, contingency, and things possible in themselvesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (1): 81-101. 1988.
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4668Leibniz's theory of the striving possiblesIn Roger Stuart Woolhouse (ed.), Leibniz, metaphysics and philosophy of science, Oxford University Press. 1981.
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23Overcoming Racism and SexismRowman & Littlefield. 1995.Seventeen essays on the ways racism and sexism have intersected and buttressed each other in the United States. They include: "I just see people"--exercises in learning the effects of racism and sexism; conjuring race; reflections on the meaning of white; changing the subject--studies in the appropriation of pain; hard-to- handle anger; and the problem of speaking for others. Paper edition, $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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109Leibniz on contingency and infinite analysisPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (4): 483-514. 1985.
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15Catherine Wilson, "Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (2): 303. 1992.
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79Lucky agents, big and little: should size really matter?Philosophical Studies 156 (3): 311-319. 2011.This essay critically examines Alfred R. Mele’s attempt to solve a problem for libertarianism that he calls the problem of present luck. Many have thought that the traditional libertarian belief in basically free acts (where the latter are any free A-ings that occur at times at which the past up to that time and the laws of nature are consistent with the agent’s not A-ing at that time) entail that the acts are due to luck at the time of the act (present luck) rather than to the kind of agent con…Read more
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18Book reviews (review)Philosophical Psychology 10 (1): 113-137. 1997.Kinds of minds, Daniel Dennett. New York: Basic Books, 1996. ISBN 0–465–07350–6Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life, Daniel C. Dennett. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 0–684–80290–2The cognitive neurosciences, Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ed.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. ISBN 0–262–07157–6Lessons from an optical illusion: on nature and nurture, knowledge and values, Edward M. Hundert. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. ISBN 0–674–52540‐XWittgenstein on mind…Read more
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10Benson Mates, "The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 26 (3): 485. 1988.
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