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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
... scholastic texts are if no one reads them, but the mere fact that they exist makes scholasticism's seventeenth-century demise look rather mythical. It also leaves Pasnau's suggestion that Descartes saved philosophy sounding far-fetched. Even if we leave aside the characterizations of the division...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 31–88.
Published: 01 January 2004
... . Descartes and Scholasticism: The Intellectual Background to Descartes' Thought. In The Cambridge Companion to Descartes , ed. J. Cottingham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. 1999 . Descartes and the Last Scholastics . Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Ariew, Roger, and Alan Gabbey...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 155–204.
Published: 01 April 2016
... scholasticism is otherwise too extensive to allow for the assumption that he simply follows tradition, even when he accepts traditional views. Second, even if Descartes was influenced by the scholastics on this point, what is wanted is a philosophical rather than a biographical explanation of why Descartes drew...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 308–310.
Published: 01 April 2002
..., No. 2 (April 2002)
Dennis Des Chene, Life’s Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press. Pp. viii, 220.
Perhaps the most lively area of historical research in philosophy today concerns
the scholastic antecedents of modern philosophy. As studies of modern...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 118–122.
Published: 01 January 2005
... or that there are at least remnants of Scholasticism in
his thinking. But those who are tempted to go further and describe Descartes
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as one of the last Scholastics should try immersing themselves in Suarez, Des-
cartes’s older...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 587–591.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that identifies matter with indefinitely divisible extension. Such a view also eliminates the various substantial forms that, for his Scholastic contemporaries, serve to distinguish the natural substances of our experience, the paradigmatic instances of which are living things. These contemporaries countered...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (4): 533–541.
Published: 01 October 2014
... from their Scholastic predecessors. This is an issue outside of the story that Irwin tells, the development of moral methodology, but Barbeyrac does have a justification for this claim, and it again makes one aware that this is very much Irwin's story. One answer is that due to their sectarianism...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (1): 136–139.
Published: 01 January 2004
... exemplified by the references below and will
especially appeal to those familiar with the analytical exposition in those works.
The first chapter effectively frames the book’s canvas by outlining the young
Leibniz’s engagement with Scholastic controversies over individuation. The
Cartesian dualism...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 57–96.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., 151 -65. Atascadero, Calif.: Ridgeview Publishing Co. Woozley, A. D. 1964 . Introduction. In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , ed. A. D. Woozley. Cleveland: Meridian Books. Wuellner, Bernard, S.J. 1966 . A Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy . Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (1): 1–40.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of the “scholastic thesis” that “ordinary objects such as human beings, animals, plants, and inanimate bodies are all substances” ( 2016 , 160). 26 For the scholastics, the paradigmatic material substances are plants and animals, objects that are not incorruptible but can indeed be produced and destroyed...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 105–108.
Published: 01 January 2002
... can be located in Des-
cartes’s own writings in more “cumbersome Scholastic terminology” (92). This
effort does not fully succeed, however. The source of the problem is Miles’s talk
of the “formal structure” of thought. Descartes suggests in some important
texts that thought is simple and thus...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 April 2002
... research in philosophy today concerns
the scholastic antecedents of modern philosophy. As studies of modern philoso-
phy have become more historically rigorous, over the past twenty years, they have
become increasingly concerned with understanding the antecedents to figures
such as Descartes and Locke...
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (1): 103–106.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., has been influential out of all proportion to its originality or qual-
ity, largely because of its accessibility to novices. If any of the great scholastic authors
had put themselves to the trouble of writing in such a popular style, we would have
a very different view...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (1): 131–135.
Published: 01 January 2005
... to what is perhaps the central theme
of the present volume: a sympathy for what Tenenbaum nicely calls “scholastic”
conceptions of agency and desire (148). We can distinguish two “scholastic”
claims about motivation: internalism, according to which it is constitutive of
rational agency (the capacity...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 633–645.
Published: 01 October 2007
...’, ‘-ness’, ‘-ice’, and, in some Latin examples, ‘-itas’
and ‘-ietas’. Locke borrows the distinction from the scholastic textbooks
that he assigned to his students at Oxford. In the opening pages of his
Compendious Philosophy, Christoph Scheibler distinguishes among simple
words as “either 1...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 155–187.
Published: 01 April 2013
... will then defend Leibniz’s position against a pair of recent
objections that invoke the early work of Kant (section 3).
2. Leibniz (and Assorted Others) on the Ground of Possibility
A basic and deeply held conviction of many prominent Scholastics and all
seventeenth-century rationalists is that, in slogan...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 607–610.
Published: 01 October 2008
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Scholasticism, Neoplatonism, and Cartesianism. Here we get the picture, not
of Gassendi as a foil for Cartesianism, but of Cartesianism as a foil “against
which Gassendi could sharpen his own views” (55). The desired effect is to
show that Gassendi’s philosophical...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 610–614.
Published: 01 October 2008
...
Scholasticism, Neoplatonism, and Cartesianism. Here we get the picture, not
of Gassendi as a foil for Cartesianism, but of Cartesianism as a foil “against
which Gassendi could sharpen his own views” (55). The desired effect is to
show that Gassendi’s philosophical...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 October 2008
...
Scholasticism, Neoplatonism, and Cartesianism. Here we get the picture, not
of Gassendi as a foil for Cartesianism, but of Cartesianism as a foil “against
which Gassendi could sharpen his own views” (55). The desired effect is to
show that Gassendi’s philosophical...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (4): 618–620.
Published: 01 October 2008
...
Scholasticism, Neoplatonism, and Cartesianism. Here we get the picture, not
of Gassendi as a foil for Cartesianism, but of Cartesianism as a foil “against
which Gassendi could sharpen his own views” (55). The desired effect is to
show that Gassendi’s philosophical...
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