Research and Publications

Publications

a) Books

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century, New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (June 2024).

Leibniz on Causation and Agency, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Powers: A History (edited volume), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

 

b) Journal articles

  • “The Effects of Slavery and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments,” forthcoming in special issue of Journal of Modern Philosophy, ed. Julie Walsh and John Harfouch
  • “The Guise of the Good in Leibniz,” Philosophical Explorations 24.1 (2021), 48–62. [special issue: The Modern Guise of the Good 1650–1950]
  • “Leibniz on Slavery and the Ownership of Human Beings,” Journal of Modern Philosophy 1.10 (2019): 1–18, open access: http://doi.org/10.32881/jomp.45
  • “Du Châtelet on Freedom, Self-Motion, and Moral Necessity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 57.2 (2019), 255–80. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “Leibniz’s Ontology of Force,” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 8 (2019), 189–224. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “The Contingency of Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles,” Ergo 4.31 (2017), 899–929. [open access here]
  • “Three Types of Spontaneity and Teleology in Leibniz,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 53.4 (2015), 669–98. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “Leibniz’s Twofold Gap between Moral Knowledge and Motivation,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 22.4 (2014), 748–66. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “Monadic Teleology without Goodness and without God,” The Leibniz Review 23 (2013), 43–72. [available here]
  • “Leibniz on Concurrence, Spontaneity, and Authorship.”  The Modern Schoolman 88.3–4 (2011), 267–97. [published under ‘Julia von Bodelschwingh’; here is an almost final draft]
  • “Leibniz on Causation–Part 1,” Philosophy Compass 10.6 (2015), 389–97. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “Leibniz on Causation–Part 2,” Philosophy Compass 10.6 (2015), 398–405. [here is an almost final draft]
 

c) Chapters in edited volumes

  • “Debates about Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy: Natural Slavery, Circumstantial Slavery, Transatlantic Slavery,” forthcoming in The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Jack Stetter and Stephen Howard.
  • “Slavery, Freedom, and Human Value in Early Modern Philosophy,” Rethinking the Value of Humanity, ed. Sarah Buss and L. Nandi Theunissen, 97–126. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
  • “Leibniz on Divine Causation: Continuous Creation and Concurrence Without Occasionalism,” Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation, ed. Greg Ganssle, 122–140. New York: Routledge, 2022.
  • “Moral Necessity, Agent Causation, and the Determination of Free Actions in Clarke and Leibniz,” Free Will: Historical and Analytic Perspectives, ed. Marco Hausmann and Jörg Noller, 165–202. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
  • “The Correspondence with Arnauld,” Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings, eds. P. Lodge and L. Strickland, 80–100. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • “Embodied Cognition without Causal Interaction in Leibniz,” Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy, eds. D. Perler and S. Bender, 252–73. New York: Routledge, 2020.
  • “Leibniz on Appetitions and Desires,” History of the Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 4: Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, ed. R. Copenhaver, 245–65. New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • “Gottfried Leibniz [on Free Will],” The Routledge Companion to Free Will, eds. Kevin Timpe, Meghan Griffith and Neil Levy, 293–302. New York: Routledge, 2017. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “Divine Faculties and the Puzzle of Incompossibility,” Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds, eds. G. Brown and Y. Chiek, 175–99. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016. [here is an almost final draft]
  • “Why Monads Need Appetites,” ‘Für unser Glück oder das Glück anderer’: Vorträge des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses Hannover, 18.–23. Juli 2016, ed. Wenchao Li. Vol. 5, 121–29. Hildesheim: Olms, 2016. [here is an almost final draft]

 

d) Encyclopedia entries and discussion pieces

  • “Newton and Leibniz,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, eds. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe, 1477–82. Cham: Springer, 2022.
  • “Teleology in Early Modern Philosophy and Science,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, eds. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe, 2066–77. Cham: Springer, 2022.
  • “Response to Donald Rutherford,” Leibniz Review 27 (2017): 199–208.
  • “Gottfried Leibniz: Philosophy of Mind,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014.

e) Book reviews

  • “Larry Jorgensen, Leibniz’s Naturalized Philosophy of Mind,” Philosophical Review 130.3 (2021), 455–58.
  • “Richard Arthur, Monads, Composition, and Force,” Mind 129.514 (2020), 664–73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzz040
  • “Stephen Voss (ed. and transl.), The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 56:4 (2018), 757–58.
  • “Adrian Nita (ed.), Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms: Between Continuity and Transformation,” in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2015.10.12.
  • “Michael V. Griffin, Leibniz, God and Necessity,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 52.1 (2014), 172-73.

 f) Translations

  • Du Châtelet, Émilie. “On Freedom.” Translated by Julia Jorati. Project Vox. Durham, NC: Duke University Libraries, 2021. Available here.

Work in Progress

  • “The Association of Slavery and Blackness in Early Modern Philosophy,” commissioned for Out of Sight: Slavery in Modern European Philosophy, ed. Jamila Mascat and Lucie Mercier
  • “Life of the Mind in Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish,” commissioned for Life of the Mind in the History of Philosophy, ed. Katharina Kraus and Stephen Ogden