Articles on Early Modern Philosophy
- “A Note on Descartes and Spinoza”, Philosophical Review 74 (1963), pp. 379f.
- “The Status of Determinism” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 14 (1963), pp. 106-19.
- “Substance, Reality and Primary Qualities”, American Philosophical Quarterly 2 (1965), pp. 1-17. What is best in this article can be found much improved in the 1987 article “Substratum” listed below; together with this excerpt from Learning from Six Philosophers.
- “Berkeley and God”, Philosophy 40 (1965), pp. 207-21.
- Critical Notice of O’Connor’s Critical History of Western Philosophy, Mind 75 (1966), pp. 434-441.
- “The Simplicity of the Soul”, Journal of Philosophy 64 (1967), pp. 648-660.
- “Strawson on Kant”, Philosophical Review 77 (1968), pp. 340-349.
- “The Age and Size of the World”, Synthese 23 (1971), pp. 127-46.
- “Analytic Transcendental Arguments”, in P. Bieri et al. (eds), Transcendental Arguments and Science (Reidel: Dordrecht, 1979), pp. 45-64.
- “How Matter Might at First be Made” (with Peter Remnant), Canadian Journal of Philosophy, suppl. vol.4 (1978), pp. 1-11.
- “Spinoza’s Vacuum Argument”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5 (1980), pp.391-99.
- “Spinoza’s Mind-Identity Thesis”, Journal of Philosophy 78 (1981), pp. 573-584.
- “A Philosophical Scandal”, Distributed by snailmail to the members of the Leibniz Society late in 1981.
- “Leibniz’s New Essays”, Philosophic Exchange 3 (1982), pp. 54-66.
- “Teleology and Spinoza’s Conatus”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 8 (1983), pp. 143-160.
- “Glimpses of Spinoza”, Syracuse Scholar, Spring 1983.
- “Kant’s Theory of Freedom”, in A.W. Wood (ed), Self and Nature in Kant’s Philosophy (Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1984), pp. 102-112.
- “Spinoza on Error”, Philosophical Papers 15 (1987), pp. 59-73; “Spinoza sur l'erreur”, Studia Spinozana 2 (1987), pp. 197-217.
- “Substratum”, History of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (1987), pp. 197-215.
- “Locke on People and Substances” (with W. P. Alston), Philosophical Review 97 (1988), pp. 25-46.
- “Truth and Stability in Descartes’s Meditations”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, suppl. vol. 16 (1990), pp. 75-108.
- “Understanding Locke’s Essay, a review of Michael Ayers, Locke (London: Routledge, 1991), Times Literary Supplement 4642 (March 20, 1992).
- “Eight Questions About Spinoza”, in Y. Yovel (ed), Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind, vol. 2 in the series “Spinoza by 2000. The Jerusalem Conferences” (Leiden: Brill, 1993), pp. 11-25.
- “Descartes’s Theory of Modality”, Philosophical Review 103 (1994), pp. 639-667.
- “On Translating Locke, Berkeley and Hume into English”, Teaching Philosophy 17 (1994), pp. 261-9.
- “Locke’s Philosophy of Mind”, in V. Chappell (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Locke (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 89-114.
- “Mind and Brain the 17th Century”, Philosophic Exchange 24 (1995), pp. 81-92.
- “Spinoza’s Metaphysics”, in Don Garrett (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 61-88.
- “Ideas and Qualities in Locke’s Essay”, History of Philosophy Quarterly 13 (1996), pp. 73-88.
- “Space and Subtle Matter in Descartes’s Metaphysics”, in R. Gennaro and C. Heunemann (eds), New Essays on the Rationalists (Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 3-25.
- “Infallibility and Modal Knowledge in some Early Modern Philosophers”, in T. Smiley (ed), Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy (Oxford University Press, for the British Academy (Proceedings 103, 2000)), pp. 139-66.
- “Leibniz’s Two Realms”, in D. Rutherford and J. A. Cover (eds), Leibniz: Nature and Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 135-55. (festschrift for Robert Sleigh).
- “God and Matter in Locke: an exposition of Essay IV.x”, in E. O'Neill and C. Mercer (eds), Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 161-182.
