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  1. Cavendish.David Cunning - 2016 - New York: Routledge.
    Margaret Cavendish was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and compelling version of the naturalism that is found in current-day philosophy; it offers important insights that bear on recent discussions of the nature and characteristics of intelligence and the question of whether or not the bodies that surround us are intelligent or have an intelligent cause; it anticipates some of the central views (...)
     
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    Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations.David Cunning - 2009 - New York, US: Oxford University Press.
    This important volume will be of great interest to scholars of early modern philosophy.
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    Cavendish on the Intelligibility of the Prospect of Thinking Matter.David Cunning - 2006 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 23 (2):117 - 136.
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    Ways of Knowing.David Cunning - 2023 - In Karen Detlefsen & Lisa Shapiro (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy. Routledge. pp. 140-154.
    This chapter examines the epistemologies of Margaret Cavendish, Mary Astell, and Mary Shepherd. Cavendish argues that minds come to have knowledge via two routes: sensory perception and reason. For Cavendish, these two faculties of knowledge differ not in kind but in degree: they work to produce ideas in the same way, but ideas that come from reason are less trustworthy than those from the senses. While Astell also acknowledges a distinction between sense perception and reason as faculties of cognition, she (...)
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  5. Cognition and modality in Descartes.Alan Nelson & David Cunning - 1999 - Acta Philosophica Fennica 64:137-154.
     
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    Descartes on the Dubitability of the Existence of Self.David Cunning - 2007 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (1):111 - 131.
    In a number a passages Descartes appears to insist that "I am, I exist" and its variants are wholly indubitable. These passages present an intractable problem of interpretation in the face of passages in which Descartes allows that any result is dubitable, "I am, I exist" included. Here I pull together a number of elements of Descartes' system to show how all of these passages hang together. If my analysis is correct, it tells us something about the perspective that Descartes (...)
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    Margaret Lucas Cavendish.David Cunning - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Systematic Divergences in Malebranche and Cudworth.David Cunning - 2003 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (3):343-363.
    : For Cudworth, God would be a drudge if He did each and every thing, and so the universe contains plastic natures. Malebranche argues that finite power is unintelligible and thus that God does do each and every thing. The supremacy of God is reflected in the range of His activity and also in the manner of His activity: He acts by general non-composite volitions. Malebranche (like Cudworth) is careful to adjust other aspects of his system to square with his (...)
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    Descartes' modal metaphysics.David Cunning - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Margaret Cavendish: Essential Writings.David Cunning - 2019 - New York, NY: Oup Usa. Edited by David Cunning.
    The Seventeenth-Century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist Margaret Cavendish took a creative and systematic stand on major questions in philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy. This is the first volume to provide a cross-section of Cavendish's writings, views and arguments, along with introductory material. It excerpts the key portions of all her texts including annotated notes highlighting the interconnections between them. Including a general introduction by Cunning, the book will allow students to work toward a systematic picture (...)
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    Fifth meditation tins revisited: A reply to criticisms of the epistemic interpretation.David Cunning - 2008 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (1):215 – 227.
    (2008). Fifth meditation TINs revisited: A reply to criticisms of the epistemic interpretation. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 215-227.
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    True and immutable natures and epistemic progress in Descartes's meditations.David Cunning - 2003 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (2):235 – 248.
    In the _Fifth Meditation, Descartes introduces a being for which his system appears to leave no room. He clearly and distinctly perceives geometrical properties and concludes that, even though they may not actually exist, their _true and immutable natures exist nonetheless. Here I argue that the wedge that Descartes drives between an object and its true and immutable nature is only temporary and that, in the final analysis, a true and immutable nature of any X is just X itself. Given (...)
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  13. Modality and Cognition in Descartes.Alan Nelson & David Cunning - 1999 - Acta Philosophica Fennica 64:137.
     
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  14. Cavendish on material causation and cognition.David Cunning - 2019 - In Dominik Perler & Sebastian Bender (eds.), Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy. London: Routledge.
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  15. Descartes on the immutability of the divine will.David Cunning - 2003 - Religious Studies 39 (1):79-92.
    Descartes holds that God's will is immutable. It cannot be changed by God and, because He is supremely independent, it cannot be changed by anything else. Descartes' God acts by a single immutable will for all eternity, and there is no sense in which it is possible for Him to will or to have willed anything other than what He in fact wills. Passages in which Descartes might appear to be suggesting a different view are simply manifestations of his analytic (...)
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    The Metaphysics of Margaret Cavendish and Anne Conway: Monism, Vitalism, and Self-Motion, by Marcy P. Lascano.David Cunning - forthcoming - Mind.
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    Malebranche and occasional causes.David Cunning - 2008 - Philosophy Compass 3 (3):471–490.
    In VI.ii.3 of The Search After Truth Malebranche offers an argument for the view that only God is a cause. Here I defend an interpretation of the argument according to which Malebranche is supposing (quite rightly) that if there is a necessary connection between a cause and its effect, then if creatures were real causes, God's volitions would not be sufficient to bring about their intended effects. I then consider the argument from constant creation that Malebranche offers in Dialogues on (...)
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    Ethics Ip11 and the Necessary Existence of God.David Cunning - 2023 - International Philosophical Quarterly 63 (4):375-389.
    A standard reading of the argumentation for Ethics Ip11 has Spinoza contending that because there is no reason or cause for the non-existence of God, God exists, Here I grant that in Ip11 Spinoza is appealing to the claim that there is no reason or cause for the non-existence of God. However, I argue that he is assuming that the existence of God is obvious from Ip7 and Ip8s2 and then positing that because there is nothing that could impede or (...)
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    (1 other version)Semel in Vita: Descartes’ stoic view on the place of philosophy in human life.David Cunning - 2007 - Faith and Philosophy 24 (2):165-184.
    In his June 1643 letter to Princess Elizabeth, Descartes makes a claim that is a bit surprising given the hyper-intellectualism of the Meditations and other texts. He says that philosophy is something that we should do only rarely. Here I show how Descartes’ recommendation falls out of other components of his system—in particular his stoicism and his views on embodiment. A consequence of my reading is that to an important degree the reasoning of the Fourth Meditation is the imprecise reasoning (...)
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  20. Agency and consciousness.David Cunning - 1999 - Synthese 120 (2):271-294.
    In Intentionality and other works, John Searle establishes himself as a leading defender of the view that consciousness of what one is doing is always a component of one'€™s action. In this paper I focus on problems with Searle'€™s view to establish that there are actions in which the agent is not at all aware of what she is doing. I argue that any theory that misses this sort of action keeps us from important insights into autonomy, self-knowledge and responsibility.
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    Descartes.David Cunning - 2023 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    René Descartes (1596-1650) is well-known for his introspective turn away from sensible bodies and toward non-sensory ideas of mind, body, and God. Such a turn is appropriate, Descartes supposes, but only once in the course of life, and only to arrive at a more accurate picture of reality that we then incorporate in everyday embodied life. In this clear and engaging book David Cunning introduces and examines the full range of Descartes' philosophy. A central focus of the book is Descartes' (...)
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    Descartes on God and the Products of His Will.David Cunning - 2013 - In Jeanine Diller & Asa Kasher (eds.), Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities. Springer. pp. 175--193.
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    Everyday examples: an introduction to philosophy.David Cunning - 2015 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    The nature and existence of the external world -- Morality and value -- Material minds: a no-brainer? -- The meaning of life -- Uncaused eternal mind versus uncaused eternal matter -- Free will: mental energy that appears to poof into existence from scratch -- Agency, authority, and difference -- The individual and society.
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    Fallen nature, fallen selves: Early modern French thought II (review).David Cunning & Seth Jones - 2008 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (4):pp. 644-645.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought IIDavid Cunning and Seth JonesMichael Moriarty. Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 430. Cloth, $125.00.This book is the second of two volumes on a myriad of issues surrounding the early modern distinction between the embodied self and the immaterial self that is one of its components. One of (...)
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    Margaret Cavendish.David Cunning - 2015 - New York: Routledge.
    Margaret Cavendish was a philosopher, poet, scientist, novelist, and playwright of the seventeenth century. Her work is important for a number of reasons. It presents an early and compelling version of the naturalism that is found in current-day philosophy; it offers important insights that bear on recent discussions of the nature and characteristics of intelligence and the question of whether or not the bodies that surround us are intelligent or have an intelligent cause; it anticipates some of the central views (...)
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  26. Margaret Cavendish on the metaphysics of imagination and the dramatic force of the imaginary world.David Cunning - 2018 - In Emily Thomas (ed.), Early Modern Women on Metaphysics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period.David Cunning - 2011 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (5):997-1001.
    British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 19, Issue 5, Page 997-1001, September 2011.
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    Rationalism and Education.David Cunning - 2005 - In Alan Jean Nelson (ed.), A Companion to Rationalism. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 61–81.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations.David Cunning (ed.) - 2014 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our embodiment; and that minds are immaterial substances. The work is a treasure-trove of views and arguments, but there are controversies about the details of the arguments and about how we are supposed to unpack the views themselves. This Companion offers (...)
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    Review of David Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West[REVIEW]David Cunning - 2005 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (11).
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