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  1. Deciding to Believe Without Self-Deception.J. Thomas Cook - 1987 - Journal of Philosophy 84 (8):441-446.
    Williams, Elster and Pears hold that an effort to induce in oneself a belief in the truth of some proposition that one believes to be false can succeed only if one manages, somewhere along the way, to forget that one is engaged in such an effort. Although this view has strong intuitive appeal, it is false, and in this paper it is shown to be false by example.
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  2. Did Spinoza lie to his landlady?J. Thomas Cook - 1995 - Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 11:15-38.
    According to Colerus, Spinoza replied affirmatively when his landlady asked if she "...could be saved in her faith." This paper asks what Spinoza could have meant -- and what his landlady would have thought he meant. She was asking about salvation of a certain kind -- a kind that Spinoza did not in fact believe to be possible. When he talks about salvation in his writings, he has in mind a different kind of salvation -- one that his landlady will (...)
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    Self-Knowledge as Self-Preservation?J. Thomas Cook - 1986 - In Marjorie Grene & Debra Nails (eds.), Spinoza And The Sciences. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 191--210.
  4. Spinozistic Themes in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer.J. Thomas Cook - 1989 - Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 5.
    "No, your honor. I didn't know who or what he was when I first came across the book -- they don't exactly love him in the synagogue, if you've read the story of his life. I found it in a junkyard in a nearby town, paid a kopek, and left cursing myself for wasting money hard to come by. Later I read through a few pages and kept on going as though there were a whirlwind at my back. As I (...)
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  5. Göttliche Gedanken. Zur Metaphysik der Erkenntnis bei Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza und Leibniz.J. Thomas Cook - 2011 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4):495-496.
    In Göttliche Gedanken (Godly Thoughts), Andreas Schmidt provides an in-depth discussion of the metaphysics of knowledge and of mind in four early-modern rationalists: Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz. His topic overlaps with what is called “philosophy of mind” in contemporary Anglo-American circles, for he is quite interested in the relation between mind and body in these four historical thinkers. But as Schmidt effectively reminds us, the “mind-body problem” looks entirely different when embedded in the conceptual setting of the seventeenth century. (...)
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  6. Leibniz und Das judentum (review).J. Thomas Cook - 2011 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (3):378-379.
    Review of Daniel Cook, Hartmut Rudolph, and Christoph Schulte, editors. _Leibniz und das Judentum_. Studia Leibnitiana Sonderhefte, 34. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. Pp. 283.
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    Do Persons Follow from Spinoza's God?J. Thomas Cook - 1992 - The Personalist Forum 8 (Supplement):243-248.
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    Essays on Spinoza's Ethical Theory ed. by Matthew J. Kisner and Andrew Youpa.J. Thomas Cook - 2017 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (2):352-353.
    In the introductory chapter to this collection, the editors point out that, until recently, most Anglophone Spinoza scholarship has been focused on the metaphysics and epistemology of the Ethics. But according to Kisner and Youpa, Spinoza thought that metaphysics and epistemology were significant chiefly because they are required for understanding the more important part of his project—the ethical doctrine developed in the last three parts of the work. Ethica was so-titled because it is a book about ethics.In recent years, the (...)
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  9. Freedom from resentment: Spinoza's way with the reactive attitudes.J. Thomas Cook - 2015 - In Ursula Goldenbaum & Christopher Kluz (eds.), Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
     
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  10. Spinoza on Mind and Body.J. Thomas Cook & Lee Rice - 2003
  11. (1 other version)Spinoza's Place in This Century's Anglo-American Philosophy.J. Thomas Cook - unknown
    The recently published Cambridge Companion to Spinoza contains a fine essay by Pierre- Francois Moreau on Spinoza’s reception and on his influence during the more than three hundred years that have passed since his death. In Moreau’s twenty-five page article we find a brief paragraph on the novelist George Eliot and half a sentence on Ed Curley. There is not another mention, at all, of any other philosopher from an English-speaking land since the seventeenth century – nothing on how Spinoza’s (...)
     
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  12. LERMOND: "The form of man". [REVIEW]J. Thomas Cook - 1988 - Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 4:415.