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  1. The cognitive science of religion: a modified theist response.David Leech & Aku Visala - 2011 - Religious Studies 47 (3):301 - 316.
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    The hammer of the Cartesians: Henry More's philosophy of spirit and the origins of modern atheism.David Leech - 2013 - Leuven: Peeters.
    Henry More was probably the most important English philosopher between Hobbes and Locke. Described as the 'hammer' of the Cartesians, More attacked Descartes' conception of spirit as undermining its very intelligibility. This work, which analyses an episode in the evolution of the concept of spiritual substance in early modernity, looks at More's rational theology within the context of the great seventeenth century Cartesian controversies over spirit, soul-body interaction, and divine omnipresence. This work argues that More's new, univocal spirit conception, highly (...)
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  3. The cognitive science of religion: Implications for theism?David Leech & Aku Visala - 2011 - Zygon 46 (1):47-64.
    Abstract. Although the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR), a current approach to the scientific study of religion, has exerted an influence in the study of religion for almost twenty years, the question of its compatibility or incompatibility with theism has not been the subject of serious discussion until recently. Some critics of religion have taken a lively interest in the CSR because they see it as useful in explaining why religious believers consistently make costly commitments to false beliefs. Conversely, some (...)
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  4. Naturalistic Explanation for Religious Belief.David Leech & Aku Visala - 2011 - Philosophy Compass 6 (8):552-563.
    Recent decades have seen the emergence of various cognitive and biological explanations of religious belief that claim to be better scientifically supported than predecessor explanations. This article provides an overview of such explanations and some of the philosophical discussions they have evoked. Contemporary naturalistic explanations of religious belief come in three types: cognitive explanations, evolutionary explanations and co‐evolutionary explanations. Some writers have claimed that scientifically plausible biological and psychological accounts of religious belief make religious belief itself irrational because they reveal (...)
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    Cudworth on superintellectual instinct as inclination to the good.David Leech - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5):954-970.
    Stephen Darwall notes that for Cudworth the fundamental ethical motive is love, but that the Cambridge Platonist tells us little about love’s character, aim and object. In this article I examine Cudworth’s doctrine of ‘superintellectual instinct’ as a natural love for or inclination to the good as it takes shape in two of his unpublished freewill manuscripts. I show that in these manuscripts he assumes a threefold model of how this higher love as a natural or ‘created’ grace fits into (...)
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  6. How Relevant Is the Cognitive Science of Religion to Philosophy of Religion?David Leech & Aku Visala - 2012 - In Yujin Nagasawa (ed.), Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 165.
     
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  7. Can Religious Belief Be Explained Away? Reasons and Causes of Religious Belief.Justin Barrett, David Leech & Aku Visala - 2010 - In Ulrich J. Frey (ed.), The Nature of God ––– Evolution and Religion. Tectum. pp. 1--75.
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    Introduction.Douglas Hedley & David Leech - 2019 - In Douglas Hedley & David Leech (eds.), Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-11.
    The Cambridge Platonists mark an important juncture in Western intellectual history. Benjamin Whichcote, Ralph Cudworth, Henry More and John Smith helped shape the modern idea of selfhood and the contemporary culture of autonomy, toleration, and rights. Not only do they represent one of the great phases of the Platonic tradition, but also this group of Cambridge thinkers arguably represent a ‘Copernican revolution’ in Western moral philosophy. Attention has also been drawn to their impact on women thinkers such as Anne Conway, (...)
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    Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy.Douglas Hedley & David Leech (eds.) - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key link between the Renaissance and the modern era. The contributors examine the sources of the Cambridge Platonists and discuss their take-up in the eighteenth-century. Readers will learn about the intellectual formation of this philosophical group as well as the reception their ideas received. Coverage also details how their work links (...)
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    Ficinian influence on Henry more's arguments for the soul's immortality.David Leech - 2011 - In Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw & Valery Rees (eds.), Laus Platonici philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his influence. Boston: Brill. pp. 198--301.
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  11. Henry More and Descartes.David Leech - 2019 - In Stephen Gersh (ed.), Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism From the Renaissance to the Modern Era. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    More et la lecture athée de Descartes.David Leech - 2014 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 108 (1):81-97.
    Cet article examine l’interprétation athée de la doctrine de l’esprit de Descartes que More propose dans ses écrits tardifs, en particulier dans l’ Enchiridion Metaphysicum de 1671 et dans des remarques éparses dans ses scholies de 1679. More n’a pas toujours pensé que la philosophie de Descartes conduisait à l’athéisme. Cependant, je suggère qu’à l’époque où il rédigeait l’ Enchiridion, il était convaincu que le cartésianisme impliquait l’athéisme au sens fort où il impliquait l’impossibilité de Dieu. Je présente les principales (...)
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  13. "Plato and Deep Plotin": Cambridge Platonism, Platonicall Triads, and More's Reflections on Nature.David Leech - 2002 - Dionysius 20:179-198.
  14. Positiones Nonnullæphilosophicae Quas Spiritu Sancto Præide, Ingenui Aliquot Adolescentes Universitatis Abredonensis Alumni, Curriculum Philosophicaum Emensi, Et Hac Vice Cum Laure' Emittendi, in Acroaterio Collegii Regii Maximo; Ad Diem Iulij, Horis Pomeridianis, Pro Virili Propugnabunt. David Leochæ.David Leech - 1633 - Excudebat Edwardus Rabanus.
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    Raison et enthousiasme dans l'Enthusiasmus Triumphatus de Henry More.David Leech - 2008 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 59 (3):309-322.
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    Neoplatonism and embryology - Wilberding forms, souls, and embryos. Neoplatonists on human reproduction. Pp. X + 232. London and new York: Routledge, 2017. Cased, £85, us$140. Isbn: 978-1-138-95527-1. [REVIEW]David Leech - 2017 - The Classical Review 67 (2):376-377.