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  1. Leibniz's Two Realms.Jonathan Bennett - 2005 - In Donald Rutherford & J. A. Cover (eds.), Leibniz: nature and freedom. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 135--155.
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  • Goal-Directed Systems and the Good.Mark Bedau - 1992 - The Monist 75 (1):34-51.
    We can readily identify goal-directed systems and distinguish them from non-goal-directed systems. A woodpecker hunting for grubs is the first, a pendulum returning to rest is the second. But what is it to be a goal-directed system? Perhaps the dominant answer to this question, inspired by systems theories such as cybernetics, is that goal-directed systems are distinguished by their tendency to seek, aim at, or maintain some more-or-less easily identifiable goal. Cybernetics and the like would hold that physical systems subject (...)
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  • Teleological theories of mental content.Peter Schulte & Karen Neander - 2022 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  • The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.Ernest Nagel - 1961 - New York, NY, USA: Harcourt, Brace & World.
    Introduction: Science and Common Sense Long before the beginnings of modern civilization, men ac- quired vast funds of information about their environment. ...
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  • Linguistic behaviour.Jonathan Bennett - 1976 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    First published in 1976, this book presents a view of language as a matter of systematic communicative behaviour.
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  • The philosophical writings of Descartes.René Descartes - 1984 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Volumes I and II provided a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. Volume III contains 207 of Descartes' letters, over half of which have previously not been translated into English. It incorporates, in its entirety, Anthony Kenny's celebrated translation of selected philosophical letters, first published in 1970. In conjunction with Volumes I and II it is designed to meet the widespread demand for a comprehensive, authoritative and accurate edition (...)
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  • Sensible ends: Latent teleology in Descartes' account of sensation.Alison J. Simmons - 2001 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (1):49-75.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 39.1 (2001) 49-75 [Access article in PDF] Sensible Ends:Latent Teleology in Descartes' Account of Sensation Alison Simmons One of Descartes' hallmark contributions to natural philosophy is his denunciation of teleology. It is puzzling, then, to find him arguing in Meditation VI that human beings have sensations in order to preserve the union of mind and body (AT VII 83). 1 This appears to (...)
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  • Folk-psychological explanations.Jonathan Bennett - 1991 - In John D. Greenwood (ed.), The Future of Folk Psychology: Intentionality and Cognitive Science. Cambridge University Press. pp. 176.
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  • The Intentional Stance.Daniel Clement Dennett - 1981 - MIT Press.
    Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, Daniel Dennett asserts in this first full scale presentation of...
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  • Spinoza, Bennett, and Teleology.Lee C. Rice - 1985 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 23 (2):241-253.
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  • Teleology Revisited.Ernest Nagel - 1977 - Journal of Philosophy 74.
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  • A Study of Spinoza's Ethics.Jonathan Bennett - 1984 - Cambridge University Press.
    "With an astonishing erudition... and in a direct no-nonsense style, Bennett expounds, compares, and criticizes Spinoza’s theses.... No one can fail to profit from it. Bennett has succeeded in making Spinoza a philosopher of our time." --W. N. A. Klever, _Studia Spinoza_.
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  • Leibniz on Teleology and the Laws of Optics.Jeffrey Keegan Mcdonough - 2004 - Dissertation, University of California, Irvine
    This essay explores Leibniz's defense of teleology and teleological explanations in the domain of physics in general, and the roles that teleology plays in his studies of optics in particular. I argue first that Leibniz draws upon Plato's defense of final causes to introduce a novel research program intended to steer a middle course, on the one hand, between Aristotelian-Scholasticism and the new mechanical philosophy, and, on the other hand, between Cartesian rationalism and Gassendist empiricism. The implementation of this program (...)
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  • (1 other version)The Structure of Science.Ernest Nagel - 1961 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 17 (2):275-275.
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  • Oeuvres de Descartes: mai 1647 - février 1650. Correspondance.René Descartes, Ch Adam & Paul Tannery - 1974 - J. Vrin.
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  • Force and inertia in the seventeenth century: Descartes and Newton.Alan Gabbey - 1980 - In Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), Descartes: philosophy, mathematics and physics. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble. pp. 230--320.
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  • Descartes et Les manuscrits de snellius: D'après quelques documents nouveaux.J. Golius & D. J. Korteweg - 1896 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 4 (4):489 - 501.
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  • (1 other version)Spinoza: issues and directions: the proceedings of the Chicago Spinoza Conference.Edwin M. Curley & Pierre-François Moreau (eds.) - 1990 - New York: E.J. Brill.
    The proceedings of the first major international conference on the philosophy of Spinoza to be held in the United States are published here.
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  • Where's the good in teleology?Mark Bedau - 1992 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (4):781-806.
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  • On Nature Itself (De Ipsa Natura).Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1989 - In Roger Ariew & Daniel Garber (eds.), G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Essays. Hackett. pp. 155-167.
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  • Never at Rest. A Biography of Isaac Newton.Richard S. Westfall & I. Bernard Cohen - 1982 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33 (3):305-315.
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  • (4 other versions)Discourse on metaphysics.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 2007 - In Aloysius Martinich, Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 81-84.
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  • Against Barbaric Physics (Antibarbarus Physicus).Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1989 - In Roger Ariew & Daniel Garber (eds.), G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Essays. Hackett. pp. 312-320.
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  • On Bennett's Spinoza: The Issue of Teleology.Edwin Curley - 1990 - In Edwin M. Curley & Pierre-François Moreau (eds.), Spinoza: Issues and Directions. New York: Brill. pp. 39-52.
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  • Mathematics and Optimal Form.Stefan Hildebrandt & Anthony Tromba - 1985 - W H Freeman & Company.
    Looks at the history of the calculus of variations, describes the connection between soap films and mathematical structure, and discusses the design of buildings and living things.
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  • (1 other version)Teleology in Spinoza and early modern rationalism.Don Garret - 1999 - In Gennaro Rocco & Huenemann Charles (eds.), New Essays on the Rationalists. Oxford University Press. pp. 310--36.
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  • Physiologia: natural philosophy in late Aristotelian and Cartesian thought.Dennis Des Chene - 1996 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
    Physiologia provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to late Aristotelian natural philosophy; with that context in hand, it offers new interpretations of major themes in Descartes’s natural philosophy.
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  • (1 other version)A Specimen of Dynamics (Specimen Dynamicum).Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1989 - In Roger Ariew & Daniel Garber (eds.), G. W. Leibniz Philosophical Essays. Hackett. pp. 117-138.
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  • Leibniz's Optics and Contingency in Nature.Jeffrey K. McDonough - 2010 - Perspectives on Science 18 (4):432-455.
    Leibniz’s mature philosophical understanding of the laws of nature emerges rather suddenly in the late 1670’s to early 1680’s and is signaled by his embrace of three central theses.1 The first, what I’ll call the thesis of Contingency, suggests that the laws of nature are not only contingent, but, in some sense, paradigmatically contingent; they are supposed to provide insight into the very nature of contingency as Leibniz comes to understand it. The second, what I’ll call the thesis of Providence, (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory.Wolfgang Yourgrau & Stanley Mandelstam - 1956 - London,: Pitman. Edited by Stanley Mandelstam.
    Concentrating upon applications that are most relevant to modern physics, this valuable book surveys variational principles and examines their relationship to dynamics and quantum theory. Stressing the history and theory of these mathematical concepts rather than the mechanics, the authors provide many insights into the development of quantum mechanics and present much hard-to-find material in a remarkably lucid, compact form. After summarizing the historical background from Pythagoras to Francis Bacon, Professors Yourgrau and Mandelstram cover Fermat's principle of least time, the (...)
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  • Works.Francis Bacon & Basil Montagu - 1825 - Pickering.
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  • Leibniz's two realms revisited.Jeffrey K. McDonough - 2008 - Noûs 42 (4):673-696.
    Leibniz speaks, in a variety of contexts, of there being two realms—a "kingdom of power or efficient causes" and "a kingdom of wisdom or final causes." This essay explores an often overlooked application of Leibniz's famous "two realms doctrine." The first part turns to Leibniz's work in optics for the roots of his view that nature can be seen as being governed by two complete sets of equipotent laws, with one set corresponding to the efficient causal order of the world, (...)
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  • (4 other versions)Discourse on metaphysics.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 2007 - In Aloysius Martinich, Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 35--68.
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  • (1 other version)A specimen of dynamics.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1695 - In Roger Ariew & Daniel Garber (eds.), Philosophical Essays. Hackett. pp. 117--138.
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  • (4 other versions)Discourse on metaphysics.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 2007 - In Aloysius Martinich, Fritz Allhoff & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 81-84.
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  • (1 other version)Theories of Light from Descartes to Newton.A. I. Sabra - 1968 - Philosophy 43 (165):291-293.
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  • Learning From Six Philosophers Volume 2.Jonathan Bennett - 2001 - Oxford, GB: Clarendon Press.
    Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descaretes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not, why not? What can be learned from its success or failure? For newcomers to the early modern scene, this clearly written work is an excellent (...)
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  • (1 other version)Le principe de moindre action et les trois ordres de la téléologie formelle dans la Physique.Michael Stöltzner - 2000 - Archives de Philosophie 63 (4):621-655.
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  • The Correspondence of Isaac Newton.Isaac Newton & H. W. Turnbull - 1961 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12 (47):255-258.
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  • Some pre-history of general relativity.Howard Stein - 1974 - In John Earman, Clark N. Glymour & John J. Stachel (eds.), Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. University of Minnesota Press.
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