Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered, Volume XXXV

Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Paul Hoffman is an international collection of essays from both well-established and younger scholars. In keeping with the example of Hoffman’s own work, the essays are written in the spirit of promoting serious philosophical engagement with the historical figures they discuss. Among the philosophers whose views are explored in the collection are Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant.

Spinoza on the human mind / Lilli Alanen The duck's leg : Descartes's intermediate distinction / Deborah J. Brown Natural unity and human exceptionalism / Manual "Mandel" Cabrera Jr Conatus and perfection in Spinoza / John Carriero Taking the fourth : steps toward a new (old) reading of Descartes / Michael Della Rocca Descartes and the Aristotelian framwork of sensory perception / Joseph W. Hwang Descartes in Kant's transcendental deduction / Olli Koistinen Virtue as power / Michael LeBuffe The heyday of teleology and early modern philosophy / Jeffrey K. McDonough Sensory doubts and the directness of perception in the meditations / Lex Newman Cartesian unions / C.G. Normore Real distinction, separability, and corporeal substance in Descartes / Marleen Rozemond Descartes's pineal gland reconsidered / Lisa Shapiro Continuous creation / Kenneth P. Winkler Spinoza on the very nature of existence / Andrew Youpa