This is a repost of a post from an earlier version of this site. It was originally published 16 November 2005.

An interesting passage on Lady Mary Shepherd, written by her daughter:

This is a repost of a post that appeared on a previous version of this site. It was originally published 17 February 2006.

This is a repost of a post that appeared on a previous incarnation of this site. It was published 22 April 2006.

One of the most important contemporary criticisms of Descartes was that of Gisbert Voet, a scholar at the University of Utrecht. Voetius, a member of the Reformed Church, early became a central member of the so-called ‘Further Reformation’, which attempted to put down anything that encouraged the human inclination to sin. In his later life he wasn’t as involved in such matters, but he remained an important figure in Reformed scholasticism.

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The following is a re-post from an earlier incarnation of the site; it was originally published 13 January 2005.

[This is a re-post of a post that appeared on an earlier incarnation of this site, first published 05 August 2007.]

In the journals of Amelia Opie, as found in the Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie, we have an interesting account of Lady Mary Shepherd that is worth noting. She attended a dinner party that Lady Mary also attended, and later noted a philosophical debate that had arisen:

[This is a re-post of a post published on an earlier incarnation of this site, first published 09 March 2007.]

In their discussion of the 1741 Bibliothèque rationée review of book III of Hume's Treatise 1, Norton and Perinetti helpfully include both a transcription of the French and a translation. I was particularly interested by this clause of a sentence in the French:

1. 1. "The Bibliothèque raisonnée Review of Volume 3 of the Treatise: Authorship, Text, and Translation," Hume Studies 32.1 (April 2006) 3-52

[This is a re-post of post from a previous incarnation of this site, first published on 27 May 2006.]

I am testing the iPaper functionality for this site. This is the QuickSwitch functionality for Blog post content-types. You can read the handout by reading the full post. The paper is just an ordinary handout on Descartes in Word format.