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Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.
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OXFOR D S TU D IE S IN E A R LY M O D E R N P H I L O S O P H Y This page intentionally left blank OX F O R D S T U D I E S I N E A R LY M O D E R N PHILOSOPHY VO L U M E I I I edited by DA NIEL GARBER (Princeton University) and STEVEN NADLER (University of Wisconsin, Madison) C L A RE N D O N P RE S S · OX F O RD 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York The several contributors 2006 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available Typeset by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King’s Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 0–19–920394–6 978–0–19–920394–9 ISBN 0–19–920393–8 (Pbk.) 978–0–19–920393–2 (Pbk.) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Note from the Editors daniel garber and steven nadler vii Abbreviations ix 1. Deflating Descartes’s Causal Axiom tad m. schmaltz 2. The Dustbin Theory of Mind: A Cartesian Legacy? lawrence nolan and john whipple 3. Is Descartes a Libertarian? c. p. ragland 4. The Scholastic Resources for Descartes’s Concept of God as Causa Sui richard a. lee, jr. 5. Hobbesian Mechanics doug jesseph 1 33 57 91 119 6. Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas: Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities dan kaufman 153 7. Atomism, Monism, and Causation in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish karen detlefsen 199 8. Descartes, the First Cartesians, and Logic roger ariew 9. On the Necessity and Nature of Simples: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Pre-Critical Kant eric watkins 241 261 vi Contents 10. Review Essay: Descartes’s Theory of Mind, by Desmond M. Clarke dennis des chene 315 Index of Names 341 Notes to Contributors 345 Note from the Editors Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy covers the period that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and