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    L'ombre de Malebranche
    Archives de Philosophie 78 (1): 131-151. 2015.
    Résumé La première lettre d’Arnauld à Leibniz, le 13 mars 1686, fut écrite peu de temps après la publication de ses Réflexions philosophiques et théologiques contre le Traité de la nature et de la grâce de Malebranche, dans lesquelles il critique la manière dont l’oratorien rend compte de la nature et de l’étendue de la providence divine. Or, bien que les premiers échanges entre Arnauld et Leibniz semblent privilégier la question de la liberté divine, le problème de la providence est lui aussi b…Read more
  • Maimonides (edited book)
    Wiley‐Blackwell. 2010-02-12.
  • SOCRATES (edited book)
    Wiley‐Blackwell. 2009-09-10.
  • Kierkegaard (edited book)
    Wiley‐Blackwell. 2008-10-17.
  • Mill (edited book)
    Wiley‐Blackwell. 2009-01-02.
  • Camus (edited book)
    Wiley‐Blackwell. 2008-10-10.
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    This chapter contains section titled: Biography Ethics Theological‐Political Treatise.
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    Spinoza's Moral Philosophy
    In Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.
    Spinoza's moral philosophy was neglected in favor of his views in metaphysics and epistemology. Spinoza's discussion in the Ethics suggests that while ‘good’ and ‘bad’ do not refer to real intrinsic features of things, nevertheless they can bear an objectivist burden. The notion of conatus lies at the heart of Spinoza's moral psychology and theory of motivation. In Spinoza's view, then, human beings are thoroughly egoistic agents. An agent's power or striving may be directed either by random sen…Read more
  •  2
    Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy
    In Alan Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism, Blackwell. 2005.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Interpretation of Scripture Reason and the Law Reason and Happiness The Spinozistic Denouement.
  •  7
    The Doctrine of Ideas
    In Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains section titled: What are Ideas? Formal vs Objective Reality Innate, Adventitious, and Fictitious Ideas Clarity and Distinctness.
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    Berkeley’s Ideas and the Primary/Secondary Distinction
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 47-61. 1990.
    Part of Berkeley's strategy in his attack on materialism in the Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous is to argue that the epistemological distinction between ideas of so-called primary qualities and ideas of secondary qualities, especially as this distinction is found in Locke, is untenable. Both kinds of ideas-those presenting to the mind the quantifiable properties of bodies and those which are just sensations -are equally perceptions in the mind, and there is no reason to believe that …Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    with Renate Holub, Johann P. Sommerville, Peter Burke, Babette E. Babich, Jolanta T. Pekacz, Sabine Wichert, Paul Douglas, Richard J. Aldrich, Alan Ford, Vincent Geoghegan, Keith Bradley, Lucia M. Palmer, Donald J. Dietrich, John L. Stanley, John Cottingham, Benjamin F. Martin, Bernard D. Freydberg, Grace Seiberling, Gerasimos Santas, John E. Weakland, Ilana Krausman Ben‐Amos, Charles Senn Taylor, Claire Honess, Jos J. L. Gommans, Ceri Crossley, Hans Derxs, Alexander Ulanov, Georges Denis Zimmermann, David Boonin‐Vail, Ellen O'Gorman, Robert M. Burns, Fredric S. Zuckerman, James A. Aho, Harvey Chisick, Stuart Rowland, Gabriel P. Weisberg, David W. Cohen, Michael Goodich, Ignazio Corsaro, Greg Walker, Keith D. White, Henry Wasser, Noel Gray, Henk de Weerd, Joseph P. Ward, Susan Rosa, David J. Parent, and Paul Lawrence Färber
    The European Legacy 1 (8): 2290-2352. 1996.
  •  4
    Book reviews (review)
    with Steven M. DeLue, Karl W. Schweizer, Margaret J. Osler, Michael Allen Fox, Donald Rutherford, Philip Lawrence, David Olster, Pete Wilcox, Kristian Gerner, Tracey Rowland, Deborah L. Madsen, Karl Newton, Hubert C. Johnson, Dieter A. Binder, Cheng‐Chung Lai, L. M. Stallbaumer, Richard A. Lebrun, Scott McCracken, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Graham Richards, Eckehart Stöve, Paola S. Timiras, Angela Elliott, Maryse Bray, William H. Sherman, E. J. Hundert, Anthony Pym, Paul E. Corcoran, Hironori Ito, Mark Charles Fissel, Helen Pringle, Bob Scribner, Elfrieda Dubois, Janine Maltz, Harold Stone, David J. Hall, David A. Warner, John Morrow, Elliott Levine, D. R. Hainsworth, Mark Walker, Richard S. Findler, Edna Hindie Lemay, Jane T. Burton, Fred S. Michael, Emily Michael, Michael Freeman, Pamela J. Clements, Julia Driver, Steven Z. Levine, Claire Le Brun, Nancy Hudson‐Rodd, Paul Lawrence Farber, Anton van der Lem, W. W. Speck, John Christian Laursen, Anna Makolkin, John Hope Mason, and B.
    The European Legacy 2 (5): 886-951. 1997.
    Political Writings. By Joseph Priestley, edited by Peter Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xxxix + 147 pp. £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper. Blessings in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil. By Jean Starobinski, translated by A. Goldham‐mer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 235 pp. $39.95 cloth. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. By Robert Pynsent (London: Oxford University Press, 1994) 244 pp. $49.94/£25.00 cloth. Voltaire: Politi…Read more
  •  1
    Book reviews (review)
    with Steven M. DeLue, Karl W. Schweizer, Margaret J. Osler, Michael Allen Fox, Donald Rutherford, Philip Lawrence, David Olster, Pete Wilcox, Kristian Gerner, Tracey Rowland, Deborah L. Madsen, Karl Newton, Hubert C. Johnson, Dieter A. Binder, Cheng‐Chung Lai, L. M. Stallbaumer, Richard A. Lebrun, Scott McCracken, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Graham Richards, Eckehart Stöve, Paola S. Timiras, Angela Elliott, Maryse Bray, William H. Sherman, E. J. Hundert, Anthony Pym, Paul E. Corcoran, Hironori Ito, Mark Charles Fissel, Helen Pringle, Bob Scribner, Elfrieda Dubois, Janine Maltz, Harold Stone, David J. Hall, David A. Warner, John Morrow, Elliott Levine, D. R. Hainsworth, Mark Walker, Richard S. Findler, Edna Hindie Lemay, Jane T. Burton, Fred S. Michael, Emily Michael, Michael Freeman, Pamela J. Clements, Julia Driver, Steven Z. Levine, Claire Le Brun, Nancy Hudson‐Rodd, Paul Lawrence Farber, Anton van der Lem, W. W. Speck, John Christian Laursen, Anna Makolkin, John Hope Mason, and B.
    The European Legacy 2 (5): 886-951. 1997.
    Political Writings. By Joseph Priestley, edited by Peter Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xxxix + 147 pp. £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper. Blessings in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil. By Jean Starobinski, translated by A. Goldham‐mer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 235 pp. $39.95 cloth. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. By Robert Pynsent (London: Oxford University Press, 1994) 244 pp. $49.94/£25.00 cloth. Voltaire: Politi…Read more
  • Book review (review)
    with Alexander Broadie, Desmond M. Clarke, Tom Sorell, Stephen Gaukroger, Sylvana Tomaselli, François Tricaud, Reinhardt Brandt, G. H. R. Parkinson, Leon Pompa, Onora O'Neill, Ralph C. S. Walker, Andrew Belsey, Michael Walsh, and Andy Hamilton
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1): 127-175. 1993.
  •  1
    Book reviews (review)
    with David Boucher, John Hope Mason, Anna Makolkin, John Christian Laursen, W. W. Speck, Anton van der Lem, Paul Lawrence Farber, Nancy Hudson‐Rodd, Claire Le Brun, Steven Z. Levine, Julia Driver, Pamela J. Clements, Michael Freeman, Emily Michael, Fred S. Michael, Jane T. Burton, Edna Hindie Lemay, Richard S. Findler, Mark Walker, D. R. Hainsworth, Elliott Levine, John Morrow, David A. Warner, David J. Hall, Harold Stone, Janine Maltz, Elfrieda Dubois, Bob Scribner, Helen Pringle, Mark Charles Fissel, Hironori Ito, Paul E. Corcoran, Anthony Pym, E. J. Hundert, William H. Sherman, Maryse Bray, Angela Elliott, Paola S. Timiras, Eckehart Stöve, Graham Richards, Joyce Senders Pedersen, Tracey Rowland, Scott McCracken, Richard A. Lebrun, L. M. Stallbaumer, Cheng‐Chung Lai, Dieter A. Binder, Hubert C. Johnson, Karl Newton, Deborah L. Madsen, Kristian Gerner, Pete Wilcox, David Olster, Philip Lawrence, Donald Rutherford, Michael Allen Fox, Margaret J. Osler, Karl W. Schweizer, and DeL
    The European Legacy 2 (5): 886-951. 1997.
    Political Writings. By Joseph Priestley, edited by Peter Miller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) xxxix + 147 pp. £30.00 cloth, £10.95 paper. Blessings in Disguise; or, The Morality of Evil. By Jean Starobinski, translated by A. Goldham‐mer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993) 235 pp. $39.95 cloth. Questions of Identity: Czech and Slovak Ideas of Nationality and Personality. By Robert Pynsent (London: Oxford University Press, 1994) 244 pp. $49.94/£25.00 cloth. Voltaire: Politi…Read more
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    Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) has never really received the respect he deserves, especially in the Anglo-American world. His contemporaries recognized his Christianized Epicurean system, with its mit...
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    The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche (review)
    Philosophical Review 111 (1): 108. 2002.
    The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with the religious Platonism of St. Augustine. This is the first collection of essays to address Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically. There are chapters devoted to Malebranche's metaphysics, his doctrine of the soul, his epistemology, the celebrated debate with Arnau…Read more
  •  2
    Book reviews (review)
    with J. A. Sheppard, Jean‐Louis Breteau, Karl Schuhmann, Dermot Moran, Laura Benítez Grobet, Andrew Pyle, P. Phemister, 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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    In Memoriam
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2): 1-1. 2023.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:In MemoriamSteven Nadler, PresidentIt is with deep sadness that the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc., mourn the passing of Gerald Press, who died suddenly on December 26, 2022, at the age of seventy-seven.Jerry was a longtime member of the JHP Board. He was book review editor for the Journal from 1990 to 1997, and editor from 1998 to 2003. He also served terms as treasurer and vice president.Jerry …Read more