Julia Jorati
Biographic Data
| ID | 459901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Jorati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorati |
| SIGNATURE | JORATI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6110-0959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765: Essential Readings
This volume contains thirty-four philosophical texts about slavery that were composed in Europe and America between 1500 and 1765. Jointly, these texts demonstrate that debates about slavery deserve a central place in the history of philosophy. They are crucial for understanding early modern moral and political philosophy as well as the development of the concept of race and the history of racism. The texts discuss various aspects of slavery and …
Critiques of Transatlantic Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Europe and America
This chapter examines seventeenth-century authors from Spain, England, colonial America, and France who make transatlantic slavery their central focus and who criticize it directly. Their arguments are philosophically rich and, in some cases, astonishingly radical. They are also important for understanding the ways in which slavery and race became linked in the early modern period. One theory that links these two notions is racial natural slavery…
Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in lively debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and these debates provide insights into the roots of modern racism. This book explores philosophical ideas, theories, and arguments that are central to early modern discussions of slavery. Some texts explicitly examine the morality of the transatlantic slave trade or of the enslavement of indigenous peo…
Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century
Discussions about the morality of slavery are a central part of the history of early modern philosophy. This book explores the philosophical ideas, theories, and arguments that occur in eighteenth-century debates about slavery, with a particular focus on the role that race plays in these debates. This exploration reveals how closely Blackness and slavery had come to be associated and how common it was to believe that Black people are natural slav…
The guise of the good in Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz endorses a version of the guise of the good thesis: he holds that whenever we do something intentionally, we do it because it seems good to us. This paper explores Leibniz’s version of this thesis and its implications for other aspects of his system. More specifically, the paper investigates the modal status of Leibniz’s thesis, the question of whether it leaves room for akrasia, or weakness of the will, and finally, the…
Leibniz’s Naturalized Philosophy of Mind
Are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics and philosophy of mind naturalistic? It may seem obvious that they are not. After all, Leibniz frequently relies on theological doctrines and argues that everything in the created world consists at bottom of immaterial substances that are beyond the scope of the natural sciences. Yet, Larry Jorgensen’s book argues the opposite—namely, that it makes perfect sense to describe Leibniz’s middle- and late-pe…
Leibniz on Causation - Part 2
Leibniz is almost unique among early modern philosophers in giving final causation a central place in his metaphysical system. All changes in created substances, according to Leibniz, have final causes, that is, occur for the sake of some end. There is, however, no consensus among commentators about the details of Leibniz's views on final causation. The least perfect types of changes that created substances undergo are especially puzzling because…
Leibniz on Causation - Part 1
Leibniz holds that created substances do not causally interact with each other but that there is causal activity within each such creature. Every created substance constantly changes internally, and each of these changes is caused by the substance itself or by its prior states. Leibniz describes this kind of intra-substance causation both in terms of final causation and in terms of efficient causation. How exactly this works, however, is highly c…
Leibniz’s Naturalized Philosophy of Mind
Are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics and philosophy of mind naturalistic? It may seem obvious that they are not. After all, Leibniz frequently relies on theological doctrines and argues that everything in the created world consists at bottom of immaterial substances that are beyond the scope of the natural sciences. Yet, Larry Jorgensen’s book argues the opposite—namely, that it makes perfect sense to describe Leibniz’s middle- and late-pe…
Leibniz on Causation - Part 2
Leibniz is almost unique among early modern philosophers in giving final causation a central place in his metaphysical system. All changes in created substances, according to Leibniz, have final causes, that is, occur for the sake of some end. There is, however, no consensus among commentators about the details of Leibniz's views on final causation. The least perfect types of changes that created substances undergo are especially puzzling because…
Leibniz on Causation - Part 1
Leibniz holds that created substances do not causally interact with each other but that there is causal activity within each such creature. Every created substance constantly changes internally, and each of these changes is caused by the substance itself or by its prior states. Leibniz describes this kind of intra-substance causation both in terms of final causation and in terms of efficient causation. How exactly this works, however, is highly c…
The guise of the good in Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz endorses a version of the guise of the good thesis: he holds that whenever we do something intentionally, we do it because it seems good to us. This paper explores Leibniz’s version of this thesis and its implications for other aspects of his system. More specifically, the paper investigates the modal status of Leibniz’s thesis, the question of whether it leaves room for akrasia, or weakness of the will, and finally, the…
Leibniz’s Naturalized Philosophy of Mind
Are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics and philosophy of mind naturalistic? It may seem obvious that they are not. After all, Leibniz frequently relies on theological doctrines and argues that everything in the created world consists at bottom of immaterial substances that are beyond the scope of the natural sciences. Yet, Larry Jorgensen’s book argues the opposite—namely, that it makes perfect sense to describe Leibniz’s middle- and late-pe…
Critiques of Transatlantic Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Europe and America
This chapter examines seventeenth-century authors from Spain, England, colonial America, and France who make transatlantic slavery their central focus and who criticize it directly. Their arguments are philosophically rich and, in some cases, astonishingly radical. They are also important for understanding the ways in which slavery and race became linked in the early modern period. One theory that links these two notions is racial natural slavery…
Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in lively debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and these debates provide insights into the roots of modern racism. This book explores philosophical ideas, theories, and arguments that are central to early modern discussions of slavery. Some texts explicitly examine the morality of the transatlantic slave trade or of the enslavement of indigenous peo…
Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century
Discussions about the morality of slavery are a central part of the history of early modern philosophy. This book explores the philosophical ideas, theories, and arguments that occur in eighteenth-century debates about slavery, with a particular focus on the role that race plays in these debates. This exploration reveals how closely Blackness and slavery had come to be associated and how common it was to believe that Black people are natural slav…
Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1500-1765: Essential Readings
This volume contains thirty-four philosophical texts about slavery that were composed in Europe and America between 1500 and 1765. Jointly, these texts demonstrate that debates about slavery deserve a central place in the history of philosophy. They are crucial for understanding early modern moral and political philosophy as well as the development of the concept of race and the history of racism. The texts discuss various aspects of slavery and …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Causation (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)