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Le Traité de l’infini créé et Malebranche : la subversion du sens [PDF]
, 2006 Le rapport entre l’Infini créé et Malebranche est aussi étroit que complexe. Ce traité a en effet circulé et a été imprimé sous le nom de l’Oratorien, supercherie manifeste pour les plus fins connaisseurs de la pensée de Malebranche, mais qui, pourtant ...
Del Prete, Antonella
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Ideas as the ‘Divinity of Our Soul’: Kant's Theocentric and Platonic Model of Human Cognition
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1375-1390, December 2025.Abstract I pursue Kant's characterization of the ideas of reason as the ‘divinity of our soul’ with the aim of correcting a highly influential reading of his philosophy as rejecting the theocentric cognitive model, one measuring human cognition against the norm of the divine intuitive intellect.
Kimberly Brewer
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 585-602, December 2025.Abstract The reception of Leibniz encompasses a wide range of authors influenced by his work, such as Wolff, Crusius, and Kant. In this article, I will address the problem of the reception of Leibniz's theory of principles in the context of the debate that arose during the eighteenth century about the meaning and purpose of metaphysics.
José Antonio Gutiérrez‐García
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Berkeley on Voluntary Motion: A Conservationist Account [PDF]
, 2018 A plausible reading of Berkeley’s view of voluntary motion is occasionalism; this, however, leads to a specious conclusion against his argument of human action.
Oda, Takaharu
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Consciousness as Inner Sensation: Crusius and Kant [PDF]
, 2018 What is it that makes a mental state conscious? Recent commentators have proposed that for Kant, consciousness results from differentiation: A mental state is conscious insofar as it is distinguished, by means of our conceptual capacities, from other ...
Indregard, Jonas Jervell
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 652-677, September 2025.Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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The Chemical Record, Volume 25, Issue 7, July 2025.The radical Pietist Johann Conrad Dippel was a self‐proclaimed adept – a maker of gold and the philosophers’ stone. He was also a magister of theology, a doctor of medicine, and a self‐taught chemist, who coinvented the pigment Prussian Blue together with Johann von Diesbach, became known for his animal pyrolysis oil, his wonder‐wound balm, his ...
Curt Wentrup
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 1, Page 2-32, March 2025.Abstract This essay critically examines a widely held assumption in interpreting Leibniz's modal metaphysics: that whatever is necessarily actual is necessary. I argue that Leibniz rejected this axiom for principled reasons having to do with his views on the grounding of metaphysical modalities in divine power and intellect (but not divine will).
Alireza Fatollahi
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Leibniz and the Amour Pur Controversy [PDF]
, 2013 The topic of disinterested love became fashionable in 1697 due to the famous amour pur dispute between Fénelon (1651-1715) and Bossuet (1627-1704). It soon attracted the attention of Electress Sophie of Hanover (1630-1714) and she asked for an opinion ...
Roinila, Markku
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 1015-1032, December 2024.Abstract In the Port‐Royal Logic, Arnauld and Nicole argue that eloquence plays a crucial role in the cultivation of the art of thinking. In this essay, we demonstrate that Arnauld and Nicole's reflections on eloquence exemplify the need to reconceive the larger framework in which Cartesian theories of ideas operate.
Laura Kotevska, Anik Waldow
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