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1Sceptical Paths: Scepticisms from Antiquity through Early Modern Period and Beyond (edited book)Walter de Gruyter. 2019.
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20Spinoza Against the SkepticsIn Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.Unlike many other early modern philosophers, Spinoza was not particularly troubled by scepticism. Spinoza's disdain for skeptics is backed up by remarkable epistemic confidence. Spinoza is thus concerned with at least three kinds of skeptics: with the methodological skeptic; the philosophical skeptic; with the fideist who gives epistemic priority to scripture or revelation over reason. The skeptic's recommendation to suspend one's judgment relies on a flawed metaphysical view of the thinking sub…Read more
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14Sceptical paths: enquiry and doubt from antiquity to the present (edited book)De Gruyter. 2019.Sceptical Paths gathers a variety of innovative studies that inquire into the presence and function of sceptical elements, strategies, and approaches in various traditions throughout Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary philosophy. Special at.
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Causation and cognition in MalebrancheIn Dominik Perler & Sebastian Bender (eds.), Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge. 2020.
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17Repräsentationalismus, Halluzinationen und Universalien, Ontologische Überlegungen zu Fred Dretskes RepräsentationalismusFacta Philosophica 8 (1-2): 53-77. 2006.
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18Spinoza on the Unity of Will and IntellectIn Dominik Perler & Klaus Corcilius (eds.), Ockham on Emotions in the Divided Soul, De Gruyter. pp. 245-270. 2014.
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2Teleology and the Dispositional Theory of Causation in Thomas AquinasHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 14. 2011.
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19Teleology and the Dispositional Theory of Causation in Thomas AquinasHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 14 (1): 21-39. 2011.Thomas Aquinas is known for having endorsed the view that in our universe everything strives for a certain purpose. According to him not only rational agents act for the sake of specific ends, but every active substance does. It is this claim I reconstruct and discuss in this paper. I argue that it is based on Aquinas’ understanding of causality which is best – or so I suggest – conceived as a dispositional theory of causation. However, Aquinas does not only provide a natural philosophical accou…Read more
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16Suárez and the Problem of Final CausationIn Lukáš Novák (ed.), Suárez's Metaphysics in its Historical and Systematic Context, De Gruyter. pp. 293-308. 2014.
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22Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (edited book)Routledge. 2018.Characterized by many historically significant events, such as the invention of the printing press, the discovery of the New World, and the Protestant Reformation, the years between 1300 and 1600 are a remarkably rich source of ideas about the mind. They witnessed a resurgence of Aristotelianism and Platonism and the development of humanism. However, philosophical understanding of the complex arguments and debates during this period remain difficult to grasp. Philosophy of Mind in the Late Middl…Read more
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21By reconstructing the teleological conceptions of Thomas Aquinas, Suarez, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the author argues against the common view that mechanical philosophers in the Early Modern Period rejected natural teleology because of its association with an Aristotelian picture of the world. First, many thinkers in the Early Modern Period did not reject teleological explanations for natural phenomena. Second, many scholastic thinkers already believed that pure natural teleology was prob…Read more
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20Finality without Final Causes? – Suárez’s Account of Natural TeleologyErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 2. 2015.
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22Introduction: Final Causes and Teleological ExplanationsLogical Analysis and History of Philosophy 14 (1): 11-19. 2011.Introduction: Final Causes and Teleological Explanations
Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |