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    A Leibnizian God of Metaphysics?
    In Pierfrancesco Basile & Leemon B. McHenry (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value: Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, De Gruyter. pp. 211-228. 2007.
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    Locke (review)
    International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 518-520. 2000.
  •  8
    Book reviews (review)
    with Mario Ricciardi, Gianluigi Oliveri, Giuseppe Micheli, Graham Bird, Ralph Walker, Emily Michael, Alan P. F. Sell, John Marshall, Andrew Pyle, Steven Nadler, Laura Benítez Grobet, Dermot Moran, Karl Schuhmann, Jean-Louis Breteau, and J. A. Sheppard
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 473-514. 1998.
    Duns Scotus, Metaphysician. William A. Frank and Allan B. Wolter. Purdue University Press 1995, pp. 224 £27.50 Hb. ISBN 1–55753–071–8 £13.19 Pb. ISBN 1–55753–072–6 Plato in Renaissance England. Sears Jayne. Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 197 Dfl. 190.00, $122.00, £80.00 hb. ISBN 0–7923–3060–9 Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes (Quaestiones, 9). Michael Esfeld. Frommann‐Holzboog, Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt 1995, pp. 434. ISBN 3–7728–…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    with J. A. Sheppard, Jean‐Louis Breteau, Karl Schuhmann, Dermot Moran, Laura Benítez Grobet, Steven Nadler, Andrew Pyle, John Marshall, Alan P. F. Sell, Emily Michael, Ralph Walker, Graham Bird, Giuseppe Micheli, Gianluigi Oliveri, and Mario Ricciardi
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 473-514. 1998.
    Duns Scotus, Metaphysician. William A. Frank and Allan B. Wolter. Purdue University Press 1995, pp. 224 £27.50 Hb. ISBN 1–55753–071–8 £13.19 Pb. ISBN 1–55753–072–6 Plato in Renaissance England. Sears Jayne. Dordrecht, Boston & London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 197 Dfl. 190.00, $122.00, £80.00 hb. ISBN 0–7923–3060–9 Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Thomas Hobbes. Michael Esfeld. Frommann‐Holzboog, Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt 1995, pp. 434. ISBN 3–7728–1699–1 Descartes,…Read more
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    The Metaphysics of Consciousness (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    What is consciousness? What is the place of consciousness in nature? These and related questions occupy a prominent place in contemporary studies in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, often involving complex interdisciplinary connections between philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, biology and cognitive neuroscience. At the same time, these questions play a fundamental role in the philosophies of great thinkers of the past such as, among others, Plotinus, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, W…Read more
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    By his own account, Leibniz first encountered the True Intellectual System of the Universe of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth during his visit to Rome in the spring of 1689, although the work itself had been published just over a decade earlier in 1678. Leibniz would later report to Cudworth’s daughter, Damaris Masham, that he had been delighted to see the wisdom of the ancients “accompanied by solid reflections”. He had certainly taken the book seriously, devoting sufficient attention to…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Michael John Petry, Andrew Pyle, G. H. R. Parkinson, Charles Webster, Nicholas Jolley, Jean‐Michel Vienne, Desmond Clarke, David McNaughton, Vere Chappell, W. H. Brock, and A. F. Griaznov
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (2): 161-199. 1994.
    Bibliothecae Selectae da Cusano a Leopardi edited by Eugenio Canone Leo S. Olscki Editore, Firenze. Pp. xxxii + 631 + 15 plates. 1993. ISBN 88–222–4104–5 Franco Burgersdijk (1590–1635): neo‐Aristotelianism in Leiden ed. by E. P. Bos and H. A. Krop Studies in the History of Ideas in the Low Countries Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993, pp. 185. Hfl. 60,‐. ISBN 90–5183–374–1 Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought Margaret J. Osier, ed. Cambridge, Cambridge Un…Read more
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    Book reviews
    with T. L. S. Sprigge, Gregorio Piaia, Guido Giglioni, John W. Yolton, Franck Lessay, Richard Kroll, Alan P. F. Sell, J. P. Day, and Ross Harrison
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (1): 165-206. 1996.
    The Routledge history of Philosophy General Editors ‐ G. H. R. Parkinson and S. G. Shanker Volume IV The Renaissance and 17th Century Rationalism edited by G. H. R. Parkinson Routledge: London and New York, 1993, pp. 444. £55.00. ISBN 0–415–05378–1 L'interpretazione nei secoli XVI e XVII 169 L'interpretazione nei secoli XVI e XVII edited by Guido Canziani and Yves Charles Zarka Franco Angeli: Milano, 1993 (Filosofia e scienza nei Cinquecento e nel Seicento. Studi, 39) Pp. 844. ISBN 88–204–8246–0…Read more
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    Relational Space and Places of Value
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 14 (1): 89-106. 2011.
    Drawing on a Leibnizian panpsychist ontology of living beings that have a body and a soul, this paper outlines a theory of space based on the perceptual and appetitive relations among these creatures’ souls. In parallel with physical space founded on relations among bodies subject to efficient causation, teleological space results from relations among souls subject to final causation and is described qualitatively in terms of creatures’ pleasure and pain, wellbeing and happiness. Particular plac…Read more
  • The Metaphysics of Consciousness: Volume 67 (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2010.
    What is consciousness? What is the place of consciousness in nature? These and related questions occupy a prominent place in contemporary studies in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, often involving complex interdisciplinary connections between philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, biology and cognitive neuroscience. At the same time, these questions play a fundamental role in the philosophies of great thinkers of the past such as, among others, Plotinus, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, W…Read more
  • Leibniz's monadological positive aesthetics
    In Pauline Phemister & Jeremy William Dunham (eds.), Monadologies, Routledge. 2018.
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    Monadologies (edited book)
    Routledge. 2018.
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    The Leibniz-Stahl controversy (book review)
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (6): 1238-1241. 2018.
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    Substance and force: or why it matters what we think
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 526-546. 2017.
    Leibniz believed the ‘true concept of substance’ is found in ‘the concept of forces or powers’. Accordingly, he conceived monadic substances as metaphysically primitive forces whose modifications manifest both as monads’ appetitions and perceptions and as derivative forces in monads’ organic bodies. Relationships between substances, and in particular the ethical relationships that hold between rational substances, are also foregrounded by Leibniz’s concept of substances as forces. In section one…Read more
  • Le très petit et l’imperceptible dans la théorie morale de Leibniz d’après les Nouveaux Essais’ morals
    In François Duchesneau & Jérémie Griard (eds.), Leibniz selon les Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement, Editions Fides & Librarie Philosophie. pp. 229-248. 2006.
    This is the French translation and revision of the final chapter of P. Phemister, Leibniz and the Natural World (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005)
  • Leibniz, Freedom of Will and Rationality
    Studia Leibnitiana 23 (1): 25-39. 1991.
    Dieser Aufsatz hält es für angeraten, einen bisher vernachlässigten Aspekt der Leibnizschen Gedanken bezüglich der Willensfreiheit, nämlich die Rolle der Rationalität, näher zu betrachten. Von den drei für die Freiheit notwendigen Bedingungen gehört nur die Rationalität all denjenigen Menschen, die frei sind, und ihnen ausschließlich an. Kontingenz und Spontaneität können die Handlungen unfreier Menschen kennzeichnen. Die Rolle der Rationalität erscheint in klarem licht, wenn man sie in die Reih…Read more
  • Leibniz and the English-Speaking World: an introductory overview
    In Pauline Phemister & Stuart Brown (eds.), Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, Springer. pp. 1-18. 2007.
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    Except for Locke's reply to Stillingfleet's first
    with John Milner
    In S. J. Savonius-Wroth Paul Schuurman & Jonathen Walmsley (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Locke, Continuum. pp. 100. 2010.
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    This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between humans and the world around them in an ethical communicative zone called ‘value-space’. The contributors examine the transformative interplay between external environments and human values, and identify concrete ways in which these norms, resid…Read more
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    Real Essences in Particular
    Locke Studies 25. 1990.
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    Leibniz and the elements of compound bodies
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1). 1999.
    No abstract
  • Leibniz and Locke (review)
    British Society for the History of Philosophy Newsletter 1986. 1986.