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Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2012.
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16The 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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10Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists The Debate over Plastic NaturesIn Pauline Phemister & Stuart Brown (eds.), Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, Springer. 2007.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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3Book reviews (review)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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19Relational Space and Places of ValueHistory 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
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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
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Leibniz's monadological positive aestheticsIn Pauline Phemister & Jeremy William Dunham (eds.), Monadologies, Routledge. 2018.
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Leibniz's mirrors: reflecting the pastIn Wenchao Li (ed.), Vortrage des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongress, vol. 6, Olms. pp. 93-108. 2017.
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41The Leibniz-Stahl controversy (book review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26 (6): 1238-1241. 2018.
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39Substance and force: or why it matters what we thinkBritish 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
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A Leibnizian God of Metaphysics?In L. McHenry & P. Basile (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge, Ontos Verlag. pp. 211-227. 2007.
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434Leibniz's Monadological Positive AestheticsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6): 1214-1234. 2015.One of the most intriguing – and arguably counter-intuitive – doctrines defended by environmental philosophers is that of positive aesthetics, the thesis that all of nature is beautiful. The doctrine has attained philosophical respectability only comparatively recently, thanks in no small part to the work of Allen Carlson, one of its foremost defenders. In this paper, we argue that the doctrine can be found much earlier in the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who devised and defended a version …Read more
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1Locke and Sergeant on Scientific MethodIn Tom Sorrell (ed.), The Rise of Modern Philosophy., Oxford University Press. pp. 231-249. 1993.
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4Kenneth Winkler (ed.) John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3): 494-494. 1998.
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1Descartes and LeibnizIn Brandon Look (ed.), Continuum Companion to Leibniz, Continuum. pp. 14-29. 2011.
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8An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2008.In his Essay, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. He shows how all our ideas are grounded in human experience and analyses the extent of our knowledge of ourselves and the world. This new abridgement uses P. H. Nidditch's authoritative text to make an accessible edition of Locke's masterpiece.
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Relational Space and Places of ValueIn Emily Brady & Pauline Phemister (eds.), Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice, Springer. pp. 17-30. 2012.This is a revised and shortened version of ‘Relational Space and Places of Value’, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, 14 (2011), 89-106.
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34Monadologies: an historical overviewBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (6): 1023-1032. 2015.This introductory overview comprises a brief account of Leibniz's own monadology; a discussion of the reception of his philosophy up to Kant; and a short overview of the monadologies developed after Kant's first Critique, made via a summary of key points raised in this guest issue, highlighting recurrent themes, which include questions of historiography
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23Locke: his philosophical thought (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 40 (4): 518-20. 2000.
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15Leibniz and the EnvironmentRoutledge. 2016.The work of seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz has proved inspirational to philosophers and scientists alike. In this thought-provoking book, Pauline Phemister explores the ecological potential of Leibniz’s dynamic, pluralist, panpsychist, metaphysical system. She argues that Leibniz’s philosophy has a renewed relevance in the twenty-first century, particularly in relation to the environmental change and crises that threaten human and non-human life on earth. Drawing on Leibn…Read more
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IntroductionIn Emily Brady & Pauline Phemister (eds.), Transformative Values: Human-Environment Relations in Theory and Practice, Springer. 2012.
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Catherine Wilson: Leibniz's Metaphysics: a historical and comparative studyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 4 (1): 181-188. 1996.