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Books
- Berman, David, A History of Atheism in Great Britain: From
Hobbes to Russell, 1988, London, Croom Helm
- Berman makes the case the Collins was an atheist. This is a competing interpretative hypothesis to O'Higgins' view that Collins believed in the existence of God and a future state. (Scholar)
- Bedau, Mark A. and Paul Humphreys, Emergence, Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science, 2008, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press
- While not dealing with emergent properties before Mill, the twentieth and twenty-first century treatments of emergence in this book gives some real perspective on the interest and importance of the arguments Collins gives for such properties in the Collins Clarke correspondence of 1706-08. (Scholar)
- Clarke, Samuel, The Works of Samuel Clarke, Vol. 1-4, 1738, 1928
republished New York, Garland Press
- Clarke's works have Clarke's Boyle lectures, the Collins Clarke correspondence in its entirety and Clarke's review of Collins' 1717 book on determinism and free will. (Scholar)
- Collins, Anthony, An Essay Concerning the Use of Reason and A Discourse of Free Thinking, ed. Peter Schouls, 1707, 1984, republished New York, Garland Press
- A republication of Collins' first book and his 1713 book on free thinking, both in their original 18th century type. (Scholar)
- Cottingham, John, The Rationalists, 1988, Oxford, Oxford
University Press
- Explains heirloom theories of causality
- Fergusen, James, The Philosophy of Dr. Samuel Clarke and its
Critics, 1974, New York, Vantage Press
- Fergusen deals with the Collins Clarke controversy over determinism and free will. He considers critically Clarke's response to Spinoza and Hobbes. (Scholar)
- Fox, Christopher, Locke and the Scriblerians, identity and
consciousness in early eighteenth century Britain, 1988, Berkeley,
University of California Press
- A fine treatment of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century debate over consciousness and personal identity that includes an account of the Collins Clarke correspondence of 1706-08 and the influence it had on the Scriblerians. (Scholar)
- Harris, James A., Of Liberty and Necessity, The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth Century British Philosophy, 2005, Oxford, Oxford University Press
- Puts the views of Clarke and Collins in the context of other views about free will and determinism in the eighteenth century. (Scholar)
- Hefelbower, S.G., The Relation of John Locke to English
Deism, 1918, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
- An effort to characterize the defining features of English Deism (Scholar)
- Jacob, Margaret, C., The Newtonians and the English Revolution
1689-1720, 1976, Ithaca, Cornell University Press
- Profiles the latitudinarian Anglicans both before and after the Revolution of 1688 who used Newtonian natural philosophy as a basis for justifying a particular social order against a materialistic, Hobbesian philosophy that they regarded as atheistic that justified a competing social order. Jacob thus puts the controversies between Clarke and Collins in a meaningful and interesting historical and intellectual context. (Scholar)
- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed.
Peter Nidditch, Oxford, 1975, Oxford University Press
- Locke's magnum opus had a considerable influence on Collins both in respect to his epistemological views and in respect to particular issues such as whether matter can think.
- John Locke, The Correspondence of John Locke, Vol. 8, ed.
E. S. De Beer, Oxford, 1989, Oxford University Press
- Contains Locke's letters to Collins during the period of their eighteen month friendship. It is thus a major source for the study of their relationship. (Scholar)
- Martin and Barresi, The Naturalization of the Soul: Self and
Personal Identity in Eighteenth Century, London, 2000.
- Deals with the Collins Clarke correspondence of 1706-08 in the context of the history of the debate over consciousness and personal identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Scholar)
- Mijuskovic, B.L., The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments,
The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff
- Gives a history and analysis of the simplicity argument, central to Clarke's claims about consciousness and the soul, that Collins argues against in the Collins Clarke correspondence of 1706-08. He discusses its uses in arguing for immortality and in questions about personal identity. (Scholar)
- O'Higgins, James, Anthony Collins The Man and His Works,
The Hague, 1970, Martinus Nijhoff
- The only full length study of Anthony Collins. The book is strong in its account of Collins' life, his predecessors, his theological views, and his influence on the continent. What is missing is depth in the account of Collins' philosophical views. (Scholar)
- O'Higgins, James, Determinism and Free Will, The Hague,
1976, Martinus Nijhoff
- Provides the text of Collins' A Philosophical Inquiry Concerning Human Freedom along with annotations and a useful introduction that discusses Collins' place in the debate over free will and determinism and provides an analysis of the text. (Scholar)
- Overhoff, Jurgen, Hobbes' Theory of the Will: Ideological
Reasons and Historical Circumstances, Lanham, 2000, Rowen and
Littlefield Publishers Inc.
- Provides an excellent account of the nature of Hobbes' determinism and its context. This is helpful in assessing Collins' place in the history of determinism. (Scholar)
- Perry, John, Personal Identity 2nd edition, 2008, Los Angeles,
University of California Press
- The second edition of the book includes selections on personal identity from the Collins Clarke correspondence of 1706-08 and an essay on Collins' views on personal identity as well as many of the relevant chapters on personal identity from the early modern period as well as the twentieth century. (Scholar)
- Robertson, J..M., A Short History of Freethought: Ancient and
modern, London, 1914-15, Watts & Co.
- Treats Collins sympathetically in the context of the history of Freethinking. (Scholar)
- Rowe, William, Thomas Reid on Freedom and Reality, Cornell
University Press, Ithaca, 1991.
- Treats Locke, Collins and Clarke's views concerning free will and necessity as background for an exposition of the views of Thomas Reid. Rowe sees Reid as giving the best account of libertarian free will. In discussing the Collins/Clarke interaction on determinism, he focuses on Clarke's account of agency as an important antecedent to Reid. (Scholar)
- Stephen, Leslie, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth
Century, London, 1936, Watts & Co.
- Gives a detailed history of English Deism in both the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and on the continent. There are several chapters devoted to Deism and one of these to Collins. (Scholar)
- Torrey, N.L.,Voltaire and the English Deists, New Haven,
Yale University Press, 1930
- Discusses the influence Collins had on Voltaire's conversion to determinism. (Scholar)
- Vailati, Ezio, Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of their
Correspondence, Oxford, 1997, Oxford University Press
- Talks about the Collins Clarke correspondence to set the stage for the Leibniz Clarke Correspondence. (Scholar)
- Woolhouse, Roger, Locke A Biography, Cambridge, 2007, Cambridge University Press
- The most recent biography of Locke which includes an account of Locke's relations with Collins in Locke's old age and other valuable material. (Scholar)
- Yolton, John, Locke and the Way of Ideas, Bristol, 1996
Thommmes Press
- Yolton's book has a section on the beginning phases of the “thinking matter” controversy in which we see that there were a number of writers on both sides while Locke was alive and that Locke discussed some of these with Collins. (Scholar)
- Yolton, John, Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth
Century Britain, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1983
- This book begins with Locke's account of the possibility of “thinking matter” and traces the controversy over this suggestion well into the 18th century beginning with the Collins/Clarke controversy of 1706-8
Articles
- Attfield, Robin, “Clarke, Collins and Compounds” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 15, 1977. pp. 45-54
- Introduces the Collins Clarke controversy, and focuses on the issue of Clarke's categories. Attfield suggests that if one does not wish to accept Clarke's reductionism one should focus on the powers of functional objects. (Scholar)
- Berman, David, “Anthony Collins: His Thought and Writing”, Hermathena, 1975a, pp. 49-70
- This is, in effect, a critical review of James O'Higgins book Anthony Collins: The Man and His Work. Berman fills in the gaps that O'Higgins account leaves in our understanding of Collins. The article, then, is intended as a supplement to the book. Berman paints a picture of Collins as a genuine lover of truth who uses his wealth to create a research library used by many scholars. He relates Collins to Locke and Berkeley in terms of the meaning of terms for religious mysteries, e.g. the trinity, as well as in other ways. (Scholar)
- Berman, David, “Hume and Collins on Miracles”, Hume Studies, 6, 1980, pp. 150-154 (Scholar)
- Colie, Rosalie, “Spinoza and the Early English Deists”, Journal
of the History of Ideas, 29, 1959 pp. 23-46
- Develops the political dimension of early English Deism. Colie claims that Collins was the least political of the early English Deists. She discusses the relation of Collins views on necessity and the problem of evil to those of Spinoza. (Scholar)
- Ducharme, Howard, “Personal Identity in Samuel Clarke” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 24, No. 3 (July 1986): pp. 359-383
- Makes the case that Clarke develops the metaphysical view that underlies the distinction between identity in the strict and philosophical sense and identity in the loose and popular sense that Butler later named. (Scholar)
- Edwards, Paul, “The God of the Philosophers”
- Puts Collins in the context of a brief history of Deism. (Scholar)
- McIntyre, Jane, “Hume: Second Newton of the Moral Sciences” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 20 No. 1, 1994, pp. 3-18
- Deals with Hume's relation to Clarke and Collins particularly in relation to the issue of whether the self is simple or compounded, and personal identity. (Scholar)
- McLaughlin, Brian P., “The Rise and Fall of British Emergentism” in Bedau and Humphreys, ed., Emergence, Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science, 2008, Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press
- Explains the origins of the 19th and 20th school of British emergentist philosophers. (Scholar)
- Mossner, Ernest Campbell, “Anthony Collins” in the The Encyclopedia
of Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards, Vol. 2, New York, Macmillan Publishing
Co. 1967a, pp. 142-46
- Provides a good account of Collins, though significantly shorter and less detailed than the one provided here. (Scholar)
- Mossner, Ernest Campbell, “Deism” in the The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, ed. Paul Edwards, Vol. 2, New York, Macmillan Publishing
Co. 1967b, pp. 326-336
- Provides a fine overview of Deism both in England and on the continent with brief biographies of both major and minor figures. (Scholar)
- Rowe, William, “Causality and Free Will in the Controversy Between Collins and Clarke” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1987; Vol. 25: pp. 52-67
- Examines the debate over free will between Collins and Clarke and compares both views with those of Locke. Rowe explores assumptions the two sides have in common. His aim is to develop Clarke's free agent theory. (Scholar)
- Russell, Paul, “Hume's ‘Treatise’ and the Clarke Collins
Controversy” Hume Studies, Vol 21 No. 1, pp. 95-115
- Puts the controversies between Collins and Clarke over materialism and free will and determinism in context, summarizes the controversies themselves, and then considers the influence these had on Hume. (Scholar)
- Snoblen, Stephen, “An Eighteenth Century Debate between William
Whiston and Anthony Collins” Lumen, 15, 1996, pp. 195-213
- Explains the controversy between Collins and Whiston over the argument from prophecy and makes the point that Newton believed in the argument from prophecy and that Whiston is trying to apply Newtonian methods to biblical prophecy. (Scholar)
- Uzgalis, William, “Selections from the Clarke Collins Correspondence” in ed. John Perry, Personal Identity, 2nd edition, 2008a, University of California Press, pp. 283-314.
- This includes all of the material in the Clarke Collins correspondence of 1706-08 on personal identity. (Scholar)
- Uzgalis, William, “Locke and Collins, Clarke and Butler, on successive persons” in ed. John Perry, Personal Identity, 2nd edition, 2008b, University of California Press, pp. 315-326.
- Argues that Collins has a materialist Lockean theory of personal identity and that nothing either Locke or Collins wrote committed them to a doctrine of successive persons as Bishop Butler alleged. (Scholar)
- Vailati, Ezio, “Clarke's Extended Soul” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. XXXI, No 3, July 1993, pp. 387-403
- Argues that Collins' most successful arguments in the Collins Clarke exchange of 1706-08 were against Clarke's claim that the soul is extended. (Scholar)
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