Papers by Donald Rutherford
T he Yale Leibniz Daniel Garberand Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. General Editors The Yale Leibniz is a se... more T he Yale Leibniz Daniel Garberand Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. General Editors The Yale Leibniz is a series of books containing texts and translations of the works of GW Leibniz. Each volume contains both the original language text and an English translation on facing pages. The original ...
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1999
Spinoza's Ethics is a book about how the philosopher can achieve'salvat... more Spinoza's Ethics is a book about how the philosopher can achieve'salvation'(salus). The key to this salvation is his doctrine of the third kind of knowledge: the intuitive knowledge whereby we grasp the necessary and eternal dependence of finite things on the infinite ...
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2015
New Essays on Leibniz's Theodicy, 2014
The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux, 2000
Leibniz Society Review, 2002
Leibniz Society Review, 2008
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013
Leibniz Society Review, 2006
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000
Philosophical Topics, 2003
Philosophy Compass, Jan 1, 2009
Leibniz's well-known thesis that the actual world is just one among many possible worlds relies o... more Leibniz's well-known thesis that the actual world is just one among many possible worlds relies on the claim that some possibles are incompossible, meaning that they cannot belong to the same world. Notwithstanding its central role in Leibniz's philosophy, commentators have disagreed about how to understand the compossibility relation. We examine several influential interpretations and demonstrate their shortcomings. We then sketch a new reading, the cosmological interpretation, and argue that it accommodates two key conditions that any successful interpretation must satisfy.
Inquiry, Jan 1, 2011
Abstract Nietzsche defends an ideal of freedom as the achievement of a higher human being, whos... more Abstract Nietzsche defends an ideal of freedom as the achievement of a higher human being, whose value judgments are a product of a rigorous scrutiny of inherited values and an expression of how the answers to ultimate questions of value are settled in him. I ...
Philosophical Topics, Jan 1, 2003
The Problem of Evil in Earlv Modern Philosophy, Jan 1, 2001
… Theological–Political Treatise: A Critical Guide, Jan 1, 2010
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