Daniel Garber

In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion—the joint between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests. These accounts constitute the point at which the metaphysical doctrines on God, the soul, and body, developed in writings like the Meditations, give rise to physical conclusions regarding atoms, vacua, and the laws that matter in motion must obey. Garber achieves a philosophically rigorous reading of Descartes that is sensitive to the historical and intellectual context in which he wrote. What emerges is a novel view of this familiar figure, at once unexpected and truer to the historical Descartes. The book begins with a discussion of Descartes' intellectual development and the larger project that frames his natural philosophy, the complete reform of all the sciences. After this introduction Garber thoroughly examines various aspects of Descartes' physics: the notion of body and its identification with extension; Descartes' rejection of the substantial forms of the scholastics; his relation to the atomistic tradition of atoms and the void; the concept of motion and the laws of motion, including Descartes' conservation principle, his laws of the persistence of motion, and his collision law; and the grounding of his laws in God.

Descartes' Metaphysical Physics

Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginning with Leibniz's earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book's focus is on Leibniz's middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz's career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace bodies but complement them. In the end, though, Garber argues that Leibniz never works out the relation between the world of monads and the world of bodies to his own satisfaction: at the time of his death, his philosophy is still a work in progress.

Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad

The ancestry and autobiography of the author Daniel J. Garber titled Garber's Bench takes you back to the 1600s where his eighthaEUR"generation grandfather, Christian Gerber, "the Immigrant," arrived from Bernsoberland, Switzerland, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1735 he bought 236 acres of land in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from, the William Penn family. In the book are facts about the author's greataEUR"greataEUR"grandfather who fought in the Civil War and about his grandfather who shot and killed his own father. This autobiography takes you through a very interesting life, loaded with unusual characters and funny stories. From a pauper to a millionaire, a man who once could not afford to get out of town to the same man who traveled the world. From a con man, to a salesman, to a cattleman, to a plastics entrepreneur. Read this fascinating book and enjoy the ride!

Ancestry and Autobiography of Daniel John Garber

This is a fictional novel about twelve Navy SEALs called Team Wolverine. They are based out of Montana in a village called Jake's Place. Jake's Place was built by a wounded SEAL with money he had won gambling. There are over ten thousand wounded warriors and their families residing in Jake's Place. Team Wolverine fights drugs, human trafficking, organized crime, violent gangs, and terrorism. Team Wolverine works in secret with the Navy, FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security. They are handpicked by Admiral Roy Matthews, Commander of all Navy SEALs. They are the best of the best. They are led by Danny Peterson, the SEAL who built Jake's Place. This thrilling fictional novel will keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting more. It is packed full of suspense, tragedy, heroism, sex, murder, terrorism, and revenge. You will not be able to put this book down. This book is a sequel to Jake's Place.

Jake's Wolverines

Michael Ayers

Annotation. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure of the volumes corresponds to the way an educated seventeenth-century European might have organised the domain of philosophy. Thus, the history of science, religious doctrine, and politics feature very prominently.

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy

Béatrice Longuenesse

For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it has often been difficult to see these predecessors on any terms but Kant's own. In Kant and the Early Moderns, Daniel Garber and Béatrice Longuenesse bring together some of the world's leading historians of philosophy to consider Kant in relation to these earlier thinkers. These original essays are grouped in pairs. A first essay discusses Kant's direct engagement with the philosophical thought of Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, or Hume, while a second essay focuses more on the original ideas of these earlier philosophers, with reflections on Kant's reading from the point of view of a more direct interest in the earlier thinker in question. What emerges is a rich and complex picture of the debates that shaped the "transcendental turn" from early modern epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind to Kant's critical philosophy. The contributors, in addition to the editors, are Jean-Marie Beyssade, Lisa Downing, Dina Emundts, Don Garrett, Paul Guyer, Anja Jauernig, Wayne Waxman, and Kenneth P. Winkler.

Kant and the Early Moderns

Donald Rutherford

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It 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. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

This is a fictional novel about twelve Navy SEALs that were hand-picked by Admiral Roy Matthews, the commander of all Navy SEALs. They are based out of Montana in a village called Jake’s Place. Jake’s Place was built by a wounded SEAL by the name of Danny Peterson. The village was home for over ten thousand wounded warriors and their families. The twelve SEALs were assigned to Team Wolverine. They fought terrorism within the United States. They worked directly for Admiral Matthews, General Dwight Smith, the FBI, the CIA, Homeland Security, and the president of the United States. Team Wolverine’s mission was to destroy existing terrorist cells that were located in twenty cities within the United States. They were to extract valuable information from the terrorist before eliminating them. This thrilling fictional novel will keep you on the edge of your seat and wanting more. It is packed full of suspense, tragedy, heroism, sex, murder, terrorism, and revenge. You will not be able to put this book down. This book is a sequel to Jake’s Wolverines.

The Wolverines and Terrorism

Professor of Philosophy Daniel Garber

Garber Daniel

A central theme unifying the essays in this volume on the work of Descartes is the interconnection between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian programme illuminate each other.

Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian Science

Descartes Embodied

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It 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. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Steven M. Nadler

Oxford University Press is proud to present the second volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy. 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 will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

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