Alan J. Nelson (nelson-a)

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Bibliography

Nelson, Alan J. 1984. “Some Issues Surrounding the Reduction of Macro- to Micro-Economics.” Philosophy of Science 51(4): 573–594.
Nelson, Alan J. 1985. “Physical Properties.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 66: 268–282.
Nelson, Alan J. 1990a. “Are Economic Kinds Natural?” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 102–135. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Nelson, Alan J. 1990b. “Social Science and the Mental.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 15: The Philosophy of the Human Sciences, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 194–209. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Nelson, Alan J. 1995. “Micro-Chaos and Idealization in Cartesian Physics.” Philosophical Studies 77(2–3): 377–391.
Nelson, Alan J. 1996. “The Falsity in Sensory Ideas: Descartes and Arnauld.” in Interpreting Arnauld, edited by Elmar J. Kremer, pp. 13–32. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Nelson, Alan J. 1997a. “Descartes’s Ontology of Thought.” Topoi 16(2): 163–178.
Nelson, Alan J. 1997b. “Introduction: Descartes’s Ontology.” Topoi 16(2): 103–109.
Nelson, Alan J. 2004. “Review of Cover and Hawthorne (1999).” The Philosophical Review 113(1): 136–138.
Nelson, Alan J., ed. 2005a. A Companion to Rationalism. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470996904.
Nelson, Alan J. 2005b. “The Rationalist Impulse.” in A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan J. Nelson, pp. 3–11. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470996904.
Nelson, Alan J. 2005c. “Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression.” in A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan J. Nelson, pp. 282–301. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470996904.
Nelson, Alan J. 2005d. “Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self.” in A Companion to Rationalism, edited by Alan J. Nelson, pp. 399–407. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470996904.
Nelson, Alan J. 2008. “Cartesian Innateness.” in A Companion to Descartes, edited by Janet Broughton and John P. Carriero, pp. 319–333. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9780470696439.
Nelson, Alan J. 2011. “How Many Worlds? [review of Carriero (2009)].” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19(6): 1201–1212.
Nelson, Alan J. 2012. “Review of Cunning (2010).” Mind 121(484): 1056–1059.
Nelson, Alan J. 2013a. “The Structure of Cartesian Sensations [on De Rosa (2010)].” Analytic Philosophy 54(1): 107–116.
Nelson, Alan J. 2013b. “Philosophical Systems and Their History.” in Philosophy and its History. Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Mogens Lærke, Justin Smith-Ruiu, and Eric Schliesser, pp. 236–257. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199857142.001.0001.
Nelson, Alan J. 2014. “Descartes’ Dualism and its Relation to Spinoza’s Metaphysics.” in The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations, edited by David Cunning, pp. 277–298. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Nelson, Alan J. 2015. “The Problem of True Ideas in Spinoza’s Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect.” in The Young Spinoza. A Metaphysician in the Making, edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed, pp. 52–65. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199971657.001.0001.
Nelson, Alan J. 2017. “Logic and Knowledge.” in The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy, edited by Dan Kaufman, pp. 224–250. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Nelson, Alan J. 2018. “Early Modern Theories of Truth.” in The Oxford Handbook of Truth, edited by Michael Glanzberg, pp. 75–92. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557929.001.0001.
Nelson, Alan J. 2021. “Modality in Descartes’s Philosophy.” in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski, pp. 355–363. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Nelson, Alan J. and Buroker, Jill Vance. 2022. “Port Royal Logic.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2022/entries/port-royal-logic/.
Nelson, Alan J. and Cunning, David. 1999. “Cognition and Modality in Descartes.” in Norms and Modes of Thinking in Descartes, edited by Tuomo Aho and Mikko Yrjönsuuri, pp. 137–153. Acta Philosophica Fennica n. 64. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica, Akateeminen Kirjakauppa.
Nelson, Alan J. and Landy, David. 2011. “Qualities and Simple Ideas: Hume and his Debt to Berkeley.” in Primary and Secondary Qualities. The Historical and Ongoing Debate, edited by Lawrence Nolan, pp. 216–238. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199556151.001.0001.
Newman, Lex and Nelson, Alan J. 1999. “Circumventing Cartesian Circles.” Noûs 33(3): 370–404.
Nolan, Lawrence and Nelson, Alan J. 2006. “Proofs for the Existence of God.” in The Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations, edited by Stephen Gaukroger, pp. 86–103. Blackwell Guides to Great Works n. 4. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470776476.
Rogers, Brian and Nelson, Alan J. 2015. “Descartes’ Logic and the Paradox of Deduction.” in The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux. Papers presented to Thomas M. Lennon, edited by Patricia Easton and Kurt Smith, pp. 106–136. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History n. 248. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Smith, Kurt and Nelson, Alan J. 2010. “Divisibility and Cartesian Extension.” in Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, volume V, edited by Daniel Garber and Steven M. Nadler, pp. 1–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further References

Carriero, John P. 2009. Between Two Worlds. A Reading of Descartes’s Meditations. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Cover, Jan A. and Hawthorne, John. 1999. Substance and Individuation in Leibniz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cunning, David. 2010. Argument and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195399608.001.0001.
De Rosa, Raffaella. 2010. Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570379.001.0001.