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31Philosophy and History in the History of Modern PhilosophyIn Brian Leiter (ed.), The future for philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 44--73. 2004.
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111Hume's Geography of Feeling in A Treatise of Human NatureIn Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.), Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Guide, Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.Hume describes “mental geography” as the endeavor to know “the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder, in which they lie involved, when made the object of reflection and enquiry.” While much has been written about his geography of thought in Treatise Book 1, relatively little has been written about his geography of feeling in Books 2 and 3, with the result that there has been considerabl…Read more
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53Hume’s Imagination by Tito MAGRI (review)Review of Metaphysics 77 (1): 156-158. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Hume’s Imagination by Tito MAGRI Don Garrett MAGRI, Tito. Hume’s Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiii + 494 pp. Cloth, $115.00In A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume defines “the imagination” in an inclusive sense as “the faculty, by which we form our fainter ideas”—that is, those that are not memories. In the narrower sense, it is “the same faculty, excluding only our demonstrative and probable reasonin…Read more
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12Hume's Theory of IdeasIn Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Basic Distinctions Basic Principles References Further Reading.
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9Liberty and Suspension in Locke's Theory of the WillIn Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Blackwell. 2015.The nature and consistency of John Locke's views about liberty and suspension, as well as their bearing on what is now called determinism, remain matters of controversy and sometimes, despair. This chapter explains what it is that "determines the will" according to John Locke. It begins by explaining the central terms Locke employs and the meanings he assigns them. Next, the chapter cites and discusses some of the main doctrines that he formulates using that terminology. In light of these explan…Read more
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14Spinoza's Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and ModeIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.Commentators have offered interpretations over many years of the nature and status of the attributes in Spinoza's metaphysics, but attributes are best understood as diverse manners of existence, so that a substance having more than one attribute exists in more than one manner. Spinoza's monistic metaphysics of substance and mode allows him to offer an appealing conception of the nature of space. Spinoza's monistic metaphysics provides the basis for a positive account of how particular things con…Read more
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30Précis of Cognition and Commitment in Hume's PhilosophyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 185-189. 2001.David Owen begins his contribution by setting out very clearly how my interpretation of Hume’s distinction between simple and complex perceptions helps to resolve some puzzles about apparent counterexamples to the two most fundamental principles of Hume’s cognitive psychology: the Copy Principle and the Separability Principle. His primary object of criticism is my interpretation of Hume’s famous conclusion that inductive inferences are “not determin’d by reason”. I am as grateful for Owen’s crit…Read more
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46Nature and necessity in Spinoza's philosophyOxford University Press. 2018.Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy brings together for the first time eighteen of Don Garrett's articles on Spinoza's philosophy, ranging over the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. Taken …Read more
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Hume's system of the sciencesIn Angela Michelle Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), _The Humean Mind_, Routledge. 2019.
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Pyrrhonian skepticism and humean skepticism : belief, evidence, and causal powerIn Justin Vlasits & Katja Maria Vogt (eds.), Epistemology after Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press. 2020.
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12The Cambridge companion to Nietzsche (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a group of essays explo…Read more
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18What, in the World, Was Hume Thinking? Comments on Rocknak's Imagined CausesHume Studies 45 (1): 59-68. 2019.Stefanie Rocknak's stimulating, challenging, and highly original new book, Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects, is helpfully summarized on its back cover as follows: This book provides the first comprehensive account of Hume's conception of objects in Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature. What, according to Hume, are objects? Ideas? Impressions? Mind-independent objects? All three? None of the above? Through a close textual analysis, Rocknak shows that Hume thought that objects are ima…Read more
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85The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion (review)Philosophical Review 119 (1): 108-112. 2010.In The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise, Paul Russell has given us a marvelously good book. I intend that as very strong praise indeed, for as readers of Hume on miracles know, the marvelous constitutes the very upper limit on what can properly be established on the basis of human testimony—which is, of course, what I am offering. What makes the book so marvelous? In defense of what he calls his “irreligious interpretation” of A Treatise of Human Understanding, Russell makes many dee…Read more
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166Monism, Spinoza’s WayThe Monist 104 (1): 38-59. 2021.Monism, characterized by Jonathan Schaffer as the thesis that the cosmos is the one and only basic actual concrete object, has been the subject of a great deal of recent interest. Spinoza is often taken, rightly, to be an important forebear. This article seeks to explain the distinctive content and basis of Spinoza’s monistic metaphysics and to compare it to contemporary Monism. It then argues that although Spinoza’s monistic metaphysics is not strictly a version of Monism as defined, it has a n…Read more
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36Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in SpinozaPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 61 (1): 223-226. 1996.
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5Modalities: Philosophical Essays (review)Review of Metaphysics 48 (3): 668-668. 1995.This is a collection of fifteen of Ruth Barcan Marcus's most important and influential essays, drawn from a wide variety of sources. The earliest of these essays, the classic "Modalities and Intensional Languages," was originally published in 1961, although the present collection adds, as an appendix, an excerpt from a 1948 review of Smullyan. The most recent essay in the collection, "Some Revisionary Proposals about Belief and Believing," was first published in 1990.
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2Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s PhilosophyPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 191-196. 1997.Book symposium
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27The Empiricists: Critical Essays on Locke, Berkeley, and HumeRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.This collection of essays on themes in the work of John Locke , George Berkeley , and David Hume , provides a deepened understanding of major issues raised in the Empiricist tradition. In exploring their shared belief in the experiential nature of mental constructs, The Empiricists illuminates the different methodologies of these great Enlightenment philosophers and introduces students to important metaphysical and epistemological issues including the theory of ideas, personal identity, and skep…Read more
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10Précis of Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 185. 2001.Hume’s philosophical greatness is widely acknowledged, yet the interpretation of his philosophy is the subject of considerable disagreement and confusion. Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy is intended to support critical discussion and evaluation of Hume’s philosophy by offering more accurate interpretations of his treatments of a number of central philosophical topics. The book has three main strategic goals: to isolate and explain Hume’s most fundamental philosophical aims, methods…Read more
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The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. 2nd edition (edited book)Cambriddge University Press. forthcoming.
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Don Garrett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. (edited book)Cambridge UP. 2021.
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12Benedict De Spinoza (review)Idealistic Studies 22 (3): 246-246. 1992.Henry Allison’s Benedict de Spinoza was a clear, concise, and reliable introduction to a broad range of topics in Spinoza’s philosophy. This revised and retitled edition preserves those virtues while reflecting important developments since 1974, including Edwin Curley’s superb translations of the Ethics and the earlier works, and important books on Spinoza by Martial, Gueroult, R. J. Delahunty, and Jonathan Bennett. Of the book’s seven chapters, it is primarily the three central ones—those deali…Read more
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