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Spinozism, Kabbalism, and Idealism from Johann Georg Wachter to Moses Mendelssohn
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021 The paper studies the historical background for the ‘idealist’ reading of Spinoza usually traced back to British and German Idealism. Here, I follow this history further back than and focus on one earlier idealist reading, indeed perhaps the mother of ...
Mogens Laerke
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Knowledge (Erkenntniss) and Affect in Nietzsche
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021 Nietzsche’s “perspectivism” has often invited the charge of relativism. I give a reading of GM III 12 in order to show, on the contrary, that perspectivism is in part a claim about how best to seek knowledge.
Charles Boddicker
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A True Friend Stabs You in the Front: Astell’s Admonisher Conception of a Friend
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 My goal in what follows is to argue that Astell endorses what I call the admonisher conception of a friend. For I will argue that, according to Astell, a sufficient condition for whether someone is our friend is that they admonish us in her technical ...
Jen Nguyen
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Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021 This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011).
Nabeel Hamid
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Spinoza’s EIp10 As a Solution to a Paradox about Rules: A New Argument from the Short Treatise
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 The tenth proposition of Spinoza’s Ethics reads: “Each attribute of substance must be conceived through itself.” Developing and defending the argument for this single proposition, it turns out, is vital to Spinoza’s philosophical project.
Michael Rauschenbach
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‘For Me, In My Present State’: Kant on Judgments of Perception and Mere Subjective Validity
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 Few of Kant’s distinctions have generated as much puzzlement and criticism as the one he draws in the Prolegomena between judgments of experience, which he describes as objectively and universally valid, and judgments of perception, which he says are ...
Janum Sethi
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D’Holbach on (Dis-)Esteeming Talent
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 Rousseau argues that holding the talented in high public esteem leads the less talented to esteem their natural virtues less highly and therefore to neglect the cultivation of these virtues.
Andreas Blank
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A Defense of Shepherd’s Account of Cause and Effect as Synchronous
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 Lady Mary Shepherd holds that the relation of cause and effect consists of the combination of two objects (the causes) to create a third object (the effect). She also holds that this account implies that causes are synchronous with their effects.
David Landy
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Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 I argue for a new interpretation of Locke’s account of akrasia. On this interpretation, akrasia occurs on Locke’s account because certain cognitive biases endemic to the human mind dispose us to privilege present over future happiness.
Matthew A. Leisinger
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The Unity of Space in Kant’s Pre-Critical Philosophy
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Much recent attention has been paid to Kant’s account of the unity of space in the Critique of Pure Reason, not least because of the significant implications of that view for other key critical-period doctrines.
Dai Heide
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