Steven M Nadler

Biographic Data

ID1181809
NAMESteven M Nadler
GIVEN NAMESSteven M
FAMILY NAMENadler
SIGNATURENADLER S M
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Heretics

    Steven M NadlerBOOKHeretics!2017

    This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world...Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it follows them in their travels and exiles, the narrative d…

  • Occasionalism

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerBOOKOccasionalism2011

  • Cordemoy and Occasionalism

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerARTICLEJournal of the history of…2005

    What a popular club occasionalism has become. To judge from some recent scholarship, it seems that nearly everyone who was anyone in the seventeenth century was a member in some standing.1 As a matter of fact, seventeenth-century occasionalism was almost exclusively a Cartesian phenomenon. To be sure, there is no necessary connection between being a Cartesian and being an occasionalist. Many orthodox Cartesians (such as Rohault and Régis) were no…

  • Oxford Studies In Early Modern Philosophy

    Steven M Nadler, Daniel Garber et al.BOOKOxford studies in early modern…2004

    Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy will focus 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 will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framewor…

  • A companion to early modern philosophy

    Steven M Nadler, Steven NadlerBOOKA companion to early modern…2002

  • Spinoza's heresy

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerBOOKSpinoza's heresy2002

    At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four?". "In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immo…

  • Gersonides on Providence

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas2001Cited by: 1

    The notion of the "general will" has proven to be one of the more influential and at the same time enduringly perplexing concepts in the history of ideas. Its most famous appearance is of course, in Rousseau's political philosophy as the expression, ideally embodied in the sovereign's commands, of what is in the common or public interest. The general will (la volonté générale) is, Rousseau says, the will of "the body of the people," that is, "the…

  • The Cambridge companion to Malebranche

    Steven M Nadler, Steven NadlerBOOKThe Cambridge companion to…2000

  • Spinoza

    Steven M NadlerBOOKSpinoza1999

    Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also, arguably, the most radical and controversial. Born into a Portuguese Jewish merchant family living in Amsterdam, Spinoza was banished from the Sephardic community as a young man, apparently for his heretical views." "This is the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the…

  • Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerARTICLEJournal of the history of…1998Cited by: 2References: 1

    Louis de La Forge and the Development of Occasionalism: Continuous Creation and the Activity of the Soul Steven Nadler the doctrine of divine conservation is a dangerous one. It is not theologically dangerous, at least not in itself. From the thirteenth century onwards, and particularly with the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas, the notion of the continuous divine sustenance of the world of created things was, if not universally accepted, a nonethe…

  • Descartes's Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1997

    Descartes’s Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote Steven Nadler Descartes’s “malicious demon” (genius malignus, le mauvais génie)—the evil deceiver of the Meditations on First Philosophy whose hypothetical existence threatens to undermine radically Descartes’s confidence in his cognitive f aculties—is an artful philosophical and literary device. There is considerable debate over the significance of this powerful and malevolent being within Descart…

  • Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas

    Thomas M Lennon, Steven Nadler et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1992

  • Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas.

    John W Yolton, Steven Nadler et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Philosophy1991

  • Arnauld, Descartes, and Transubstantiation

    Steven Nadler, Steven M NadlerARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1988Cited by: 1

    God created the world for two reasons..., one, to provide an idea of his greatness; the other, to depict invisible things in the visible. M. Descartes has destroyed the one as well as the other. The sun is a lovely piece of work, one says to him. Not at all, he replies, it is a mass of metal filings. Instead of recognizing invisible things in the visible, such as the God of nature in the sun, and seeing an image of his grace in all that he has pr…