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Individual and community and its American legacyIn Charles Ramond & Jack Stetter (eds.), Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, . 2019.
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11Introduction: Show me the ArgumentsIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.This chapter contains sections titled: Philosophy of Religion Metaphysics Epistemology Ethics Philosophy of Mind Science and Language How to Use This Book.
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13The Problem of EvilIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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9Irrelevant ConclusionIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy called 'irrelevant conclusion'. The fallacy of irrelevant conclusion, also known as the ignoratio elenchi (“ignorance of the proof”) fallacy, is, in effect, the parent of all other fallacies since every fallacy yields a conclusion that even if it be true is not related – that is, is irrelevant – to the premises of the argument. Arguments that commit the irrelevant conclusion fallacy all end with a conclusion that is not re…Read more
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8AccidentIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy called ‘accident’. This fallacy often occurs when people let their attention become distracted by factors, which may be true, other than those relevant in an argument. While the fallacy of accident is an informal fallacy, people can imagine that it has something like this as a form: General principle or rule X applies across the board; particular case x is an example of X; and thus X applies to x. One way to detect or to a…Read more
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6Converse AccidentIn Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments, Wiley. 2018-05-09.This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy called “converse accident (CA)”. The fallacy of CA occurs in much the same way as the fallacy of hasty generalization. Not unlike its other related fallacy, accident, which applies a general principle to a particular case to which it does not apply, CA instead generalizes over some cases, or even over one particular case, to make a more sweeping conclusion. This fallacious way of thinking is especially noxious since it oft…Read more
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Individual and community and its American legacyIn Jack Stetter & Charles Ramond (eds.), Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. 2019.
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Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy (edited book)Wiley Blackwell. 2018.
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23The Letters (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 1995.Samuel Shirley's splendid new translation, with critical annotation reflecting research of the last half-century, is the only edition of the complete text of Spinoza's correspondence available in English. An historical-philosophical Introduction, detailed annotation, a chronology, and a bibliography are also included.
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3Spinoza and cognitivism: A critiqueStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 8 223-230. 1992.
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38Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2018.100+ logical, both formal and informal, fallacies explained and illustrated by important and famous arguments made in the history of philosophy.
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18Spinoza on Community, Affectivity, and Life ValuesDissertation, Marquette University. 1997.Spinoza's ethics is founded on the idea that we are egoists who should do nothing but search our own advantage , but that in doing so, this is when we are most virtuous, most moral, and most social . Community, taken in any sense stronger than a mere collection of things, only occurs, then, when each is drawn to seek his self-interest. ;Spinoza would hold that no study of ethics can be done in a metaphysical vacuum . To discuss the ethics of an individual existing in community, one must first ad…Read more
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Review (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 12 269-270. 1996.Review of Atilano Dominquez' Spinoza (1632-1677). The book, written in Spanish, provides a general introduction to Spinoza's philosophy.
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12Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2011._Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument._ Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with premises, conclusions and logical form plainly identified. Key quotations provide a sense of style and approach. _Just the Arguments_ is an invaluable one-stop argument…Read more
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11The Principles of Cartesian Philosophy: And, Metaphysical Thoughts (edited book)Hackett Publishing. 1998.Samuel Shirley's translations of Baruch Spinoza's Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts along with commentary, introduction, and analytic tables.
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12Introduction: Show Me the ArgumentsIn Michael Bruce Steven Barbone (ed.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 1-6. 2011.Introduction to edited volume, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy.
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11The problem of evilIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 35-7. 2011.This short chapter evaluates the logic of Epicurus' argument that considers the problem of evil (how could an all powerful, all knowing, and all good God permit the existence of evil?) It is part of larger set of evaluations of famous arguments presented in the history of philosophy.
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9What counts as an Individual for Spinoza?In Olli Koistinen & J. I. Biro (eds.), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford University Press. pp. 89-112. 2002.Very close analysis of Baruch Spinoza's wording in describing individuals rather than things. Individuals, but not collections such as a political state or club, each have their own specific conatus, or essence. Collectivities, like nations or institutions, fail to meet this necessary condition of individuation.
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38Author Q & AThe Philosophers' Magazine 61 (61): 125-126. 2013.Interview with Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone, editors of Just the Arguments.
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Scotus: Adumbrations of a new concept of infinityWissenschaft Und Weisheit 59 (1): 35-43. 1996.John Duns Scotus offers the possible beginning for a modern reconceptualization of infinity. Because of his own contemporary mindset, Scotus is not able to overcome completely the mediaeval notionof infinity, but he moves toward an understanding of pluralities of infinities. While Scotus reserves infinity in its most proper sense only to God, this effort on Scotus' part, which extends the concept of infinity while reserving a unique sense of it to the divine essence alone, is surely part of a tr…Read more
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Spinoza ou la prudence (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 16 274-276. 2008.book review of Chantel Jaquet's Spinoza ou la Prudence.
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32Not Just “An Unmitigated and Seemingly Unmotivated Disaster”International Philosophical Quarterly 57 (3): 305-313. 2017.Much ink has been spilled over the so-called problem of the “eternity of the mind” in Spinoza’s Ethics, where he writes: “Nevertheless, we feel and experience that we are eternal.” The line is striking by what it seems to assert, namely, that we are eternal, but it is yet more striking if we are attentive to Spinoza’s word choices. If Spinoza had written instead that we know or understand (even if by experience) that we are eternal, the issue might be more easily resolved. But what can it mean t…Read more
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2St. Bonaventure's Journey Into GodFranciscan Studies 38 (112): 57-66. 1996.Analysis and exegesis attempting to isolate the distinctive uses Bonaventure makes of “ad Deum,” “in Deo,” and “in Deum.” While by itself this exegesis may bear little on Bonaventurean studies, applying it to his theology, especially his Christology, may prove quite useful in understanding humanity’s relationship to Christ. Applied to philosophy, the distinction between the passage toward God and into God, since it does involve emanation and conception of the Trinity, may help shed further light…Read more
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46Review of Charlie Huenemann (ed.), Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (7). 2008.
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2Spinoza in Love?In Adrianne Leigh McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003, Rodopi. pp. 99-108. 2011.This short work asks how Baruch Spinoza might have valued the phenomenon of falling in love: is it a passion to be avoided or an action to seek? The question is illustrated by Somerset Maugham's On Human Bondage.
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