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    Malebranche, by Andrew Pyle (review)
    European Journal of Philosophy 15 (1): 127-129. 2007.
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    Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being by John Harfouch
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1): 183-184. 2020.
    Despite ideals of philosophical objectivity, who speaks is as important as what is said, and those who fall outside the Eurocentric male norm often are not heard or invited to participate in theorizing. New work chronicling and challenging the creation of white supremacist ideology in philosophy is needed greatly. In this important book, Another Mind-Body Problem: A History of Racial Non-Being, John Harfouch reveals the hermeneutical injustice that obscures how professional philosophers understa…Read more
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    Malebranche, by Andrew Pyle
    European Journal of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 43.1 (2005) 83-105 [Access article in PDF] Does Malebranche Need Efficacious Ideas? The Cognitive Faculties, the Ontological Status of Ideas, and Human Attention Susan Peppers-Bates But whatever effort of mind I make, I cannot find an idea of force, efficacy, of power, save in the will of the infinitely perfect Being. Malebranche, Elucidation 15 One of the signatures of 17th century rationalists i…Read more
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    Malebranche's metaphysics and the problem of human freedom -- God, order, and general volitions -- Arnauld and Malebranche on the power of the human intellect -- The cognitive faculties and the divine ideas -- Malebranche on free will and imminent causation.
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    Divine Simplicity and Divine Command Ethics
    International Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 361-369. 2008.
    In this paper I will argue that a false assumption drives the attraction of philosophers to a divine command theory of morality. Specifically, I suggest the idea that anything not created by God is independent of God is a misconception. The idea misleads us into thinking that our only choice in offering a theistic ground for morality is between making God bow to a standard independent of his will or God creating morality in revealing his will. Yet what is God is hardly independent of him, and in…Read more
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    Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By David C. Bellusci (review)
    Augustinian Studies 45 (1): 133-139. 2014.