Descartes on the consistency of reason -- Frankfurt and the Cartesian circle -- Understanding interaction: what descartes should have told Elisabeth -- Understanding interaction revisited -- Excerpts from Spinoza -- The sirens of Elea: rationalism, monsim and idealism in Spinoza -- Causation, intentionaliy, and the case for occasionalism -- Malebranche on necessary connections, omniscience, and omnipotence -- Why corporeal substances keep popping up in Leibniz's later philosophy -- Idealism and corporeal substance in Leibniz's metaphysics -- Lockean Mechanism -- Mechanism and esstialism in Locke's thought -- Locke on people and substances -- Revisiting people and substances -- Berkeley without god -- Response to atherton: no atheism without skepticism -- David Hume: objects and power -- Reply to Strawson: 'David Hume: objects and power' -- Bayes, Hume, price and miracles -- Earman on Hume on miracles -- Necessity, analyticity, and the a priori -- Pure intuition and Kant's synthetic a priori -- Excerpts from Kantian Hunility -- Langton, Kant, and things in themselves -- Does history have a future? some relfections on bennett and doing philosophy historically -- Philosophy and its history

1. Philosophy
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