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3The Doctrine of SubstanceIn Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations, Blackwell. 2006.
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75Descartes's Theory of Mind – Desmond M. ClarkePhilosophical Quarterly 59 (235): 359-362. 2009.No Abstract
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8Philosophy in History Edited by Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner Cambridge University Press, 1984, xii+403 pp., £27.50, £7.95 paper (review)Philosophy 61 (237): 409-414. 1986.
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30Philosophy in History Edited by Richard Rorty, J. B. Schneewind and Quentin Skinner Cambridge University Press, 1984, xii+403 pp., £27.50, £7.95 paper (review)Philosophy 61 (237): 409-. 1986.
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83Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern PhilosophyCambridge University Press. 2000.This is the first book-length study of Descartes's metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late Scholastic philosophy of thinkers such as Suárez against which Descartes reacted. Jorge Secada views Cartesian philosophy as an 'essentialist' reply to the 'existentialism' of the School, and his discussion includes careful analyses and original interpretations of such central Cartesian themes as the role of scepticism, intentionality and the doctrine of the material falsity o…Read more
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270Generosity, terror, and the good for humansIn Matthew J. Morgan (ed.), The Impact of 9/11 on Religion and Philosophy, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.This is a discussion of the moral psychology of monstrous evil. It suggests that deliberate monstrously evil acts committed in the name of the good by moral agents arises from a peculiar vice which blinds them to the humanity of others. It also examines an opposing virtue, generosity.
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421Review of Ronald Rubin, Silencing the Demon's Advocate: The Strategy of Descartes' Meditations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (4). 2009.
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29Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, and Nihilism—Gary Steiner (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 47 (1): 113-114. 2007.
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30Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (1): 127-128. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.1 (2003) 127-128 [Access article in PDF] Dennis Des Chene. Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. viii + 220. Cloth, $45.00. The history of philosophy aims at the recovery and interpretation of past thought, and its reconstructions seek to avoid anachronism. Dennis Des Chene's book is exemplary in this respect. It offers a sophist…Read more
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37Suárez’S Nominalist Master Argument: Metaphysical Disputations 5, 1In Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 211-236. 2014.
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44Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (4): 551-553. 2003.
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Power, terror, and the good for humansIn Matthew J. Morgan (ed.), The Impact of 9/11 on Religion and Philosophy: The Day That Changed Everything?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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50BOOK REVIEW. Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle, and the Moderns, by Gerasimos Santas. Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, x + 300 pp. (review)The Journal of Ethics 8 (4): 467-470. 2005.
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Suárez on continuous quantityIn Benjamin Hill & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York. 2012.A discussion of Suarez's views on continuous quantity in the context of his place in the history of philosophy. The paper raises issues about conceptual change in intellectual history. It advances original interpretations of Aristotle and Suarez on continuous quantity.
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22Descartes y la escolásticaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 7 (2): 301-330. 1995.Descartes escribió que "no debemos nunca preguntar si algo existe al menos que ya conozcamos que es". Los comentaristas le han prestado poca atención a esta doctrina. Se trata, sin embargo, de una pieza medular en la metafísica cartesiana. Además, contiene una clave para la comprensión de las relaciones filosóficas entre Descartes y sus predecesores escolásticos. Este trabajo articula la doctrina esencialista de Descartes, contrastándola con el existencialismo de los aristotélicos. Finalmente, e…Read more
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