The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, forthcoming 2008).
Spinoza’s Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind (Oxford University Press, 2002). Translations in Italian, Dutch.
Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Winner of the 2000 Koret Jewish Book Award. Translations in French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese.
Malebranche and Ideas (Oxford University Press, 1992).
Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas (Princeton University Press, 1989).
[Non-philosophy: Rembrandt’s Jews (University of Chicago Press, 2003), named a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction.]
The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth-Century, co-edited with Tamar Rudavsky (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, co-edited with Daniel Garber (Oxford University Press), vol. 1 (2003); vol. 2 (2005); vol. 3 (2006); vol. 4 (forthcoming); vol. 5 (in preparation).
Co-editor (with Manfred Walther and Elhanan Yakira) of Studia Spinozana, volume 13 (1997 [2003]), devoted to "Spinoza and Jewish Identity".
A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).
The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, with introduction (Penn State Press, 1993).
Malebranche: Philosophical Selections, with introduction (Hackett Publishing, 1992).
Work in Progress:
"A Book Forged in Hell": Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise (for Princeton University Press).
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: An Introduction (for Cambridge University Press).
"Spinoza and Consciousness", Mind (forthcoming).
"Arnauld's God", Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming).
“Spinoza en het jodendom”, invited essay for ‘Libertas philosophandi’: Spinoza als gids voor een vrije wereld, Cis van Heertum, ed. (Amsterdam: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, forthcoming).
“Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of Philosophy”, in Montreal Studies in the History of Philosophy (forthcoming).
“The Jewish Spinoza”, invited review essay for Journal of the History of Ideas (forthcoming).
“Gersonides”, in Henrik Lagerlund, ed., Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (Springer Verlag, forthcoming).
“Baruch Spinoza”, in Judith R. Baskin, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Jewish History, Religion and Culture (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Spinoza and the Problem of Jewish Secularism”, in Zvi Gitelman, ed., Jewishness and Secularism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming).
“Benedictus Pantheissimus: The Problem of Spinoza’s Reputation”, in Jill Kraye, John Rogers, Tom Sorrell, eds., The New Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy: Reputations of Seventeenth-Century Philosophers (forthcoming).
“Theodicy and Providence”, in Steven Nadler and Tamar Rudavsky (eds.), The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"Descartes", "Cartesianism", "Spinoza" and "Atheism" articles for the Dictionary of Early Modern Europe, ed. Jonathan Dewald (New York: Scribners, forthcoming).
"The Bible Hermeneutics of Baruch de Spinoza", Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Volume 2, Part 1: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Magne Saebo, Michael Fishbane, Jean-Louis Ska, eds. (Gottingen: Vandenhoek and Ruprecht, 2008).
“’Whatever is, is in God’: Substance and Things in Spinoza’s Metaphysics”, in Charles Huenemann, ed., Interpreting Spinoza (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
"Spinoza and the Naturalization of Judaism", in The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy, ed. Michael Morgan (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
“Causalité et necessité”, in Jean-Luc Marion and Michel Fichant, eds., Descartes en Kant (Presses Universitaires de France, 2006).
"Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy", in Alan Nelson, ed., A Companion to Rationalism (Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
"Descartes's Doctrine of Ideas", in Stephen Gaukroger, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Descartes's Meditations (Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
"Hope, Fear and the Politics of Immortality in Spinoza", in Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy, ed. Tom Sorrell and G.A.J. Rogers (Oxford University Press, 2005).
“Spinoza’s Theory of Divine Providence: Rationalist Solutions, Jewish Sources”, Mededelingen vanwege Het Spinozahuis, no. 87 (2005).
"Cordemoy and Occasionalism", Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (2005): 37-54..
"Descartes’ Soul, Spinoza’s Mind", in Receptions of Descartes, ed. Tad Schmaltz (Routledge, 2005).
“Baruch Spinoza”, for the Encarta encyclopedia (London: Websters International Publishing, 2005).
"Gersonide, Spinoza et les vérités éternelles", Les études philosophiques (2004)
“Louis de la Forge", for the Thoemmes Dictionary of Philosophy (London: Thoemmes,2004).
"Is Spinoza a Jewish Philosopher?", Studia Spinozana 13 (1997 [2003]).
"Spinoza and the Downfall of Cartesianism", in Thomas Lennon, ed., Cartesian Views (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003).
"Spinoza and Philo: On the Alleged Mysticism in the Ethics", in B. Inwood and J. Miller, eds., Hellenistic Philosophy and the Early Modern Period (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
"Eternity and Immortality in Spinoza’s Ethics", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. 26 (2002).
"Spinoza", in Steven Nadler, ed., A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, 2002).
"Baruch de Spinoza", in Edward Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/).
"Gersonides on Providence: A Jewish Chapter in the History of General Will", Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (2001): 37-57.
"Spinoza in the Garden of Good and Evil", in Elmar Kremer, ed., The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy (University of Toronto Press, 2001). A French version appears in Philosophiques (2002).
"Nicolas Malebranche", for The Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd edition, ed. Lawrence Becker (Routledge, 2001).
"The Excommunication of Spinoza: Trouble and Toleration in the ‘Dutch Jerusalem’", Shofar 19 (2001): 40-52.
"Baruch Spinoza: Lense Grinder, Heretic", invited essay for The Journal of Opthamology, October 2000.
"Nicolas Malebranche", for The Blackwell Guide to Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Nietszche, ed. Steven Emmanuel (Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
"Antoine Arnauld", in The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution (Garland Publishing, 2000).
"Connaissance et causalité: Esquisse d’une histoire", XVIIième Siècle 51 (1999), 335-45.
"Knowledge, Volitional Agency and Causation in Malebranche and Geulincx", British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1999), 263-274..
"Continuous Creation and the Activity of the Soul: Louis de la Forge and the Development of Occasionalism", Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998): 215-231.
"Conceptions of Causality and Explanation", invited essay for The Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Philosophy, M. Ayers, D. Garber, and A. Gabbey, eds. (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Articles on Antoine Arnauld, Nicolas Malebranche, Louis de la Forge, Géraud Cordemoy, and Simon Foucher, for the Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1998).
"Descartes’ Demon and the Madness of Don Quixote", Journal of the History of Ideas 58 (1997), 41-55. A French version appears in Laval théologique et philosophique 53 (1997), 605-616.
Critical Notice of Gordon Baker and Katherine Morris, Descartes’ Dualism in Philosophical Books 38 (1997), 157-164.
"Occasionalism and the Mind-Body Problem", Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy, vol. 2: Studies in Seventeenth Century European Philosophy, M.A. Stewart, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1997).
"'No Necessary Connection': The Medieval Roots of the Occasionalist Roots of Hume", The Monist 79 (1996), 448-466.
"'Tange montes et fumigabunt': Arnauld face aux théodicées de Leibniz et Malebranche", Chroniques de Port-Royal 44 (1995), 323-334; English version published in Interpreting Arnauld, edited by E. Kremer (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
"Malebranche's Occasionalism: A Reply to Clarke", Journal of the History of Philosophy 33 (1995), 505- 8.
"Occasionalism and the Question of Arnauld's Cartesianism", in Descartes and His Contemporaries, R. Ariew and M. Grene, eds. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 129-144.
Articles on Malebranche, Occasionalism, Arnauld, and Port-Royal Logic, invited submissions for The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, R. Audi, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
"Choosing a Theodicy: The Leibniz-Malebranche-Arnauld Connection", Journal of the History of Ideas 55 (1994), 573-589. (This paper won the Forkasch Prize for best article published in the Journal of the History of Ideas in 1994.)
"Descartes and Occasional Causation", British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2 (1994), 35-54.
"Dualism and Occasionalism: Arnauld and the Development of Cartesian Metaphysics", Revue Internationale de philosophie 48 (1994), 421-440.
"Malebranche's Theory of Perception", in The Great Arnauld and Some of His Philosophical Correspondents, E. Kremer, ed. (University of Toronto Press, 1994).
"Intentionality in the Arnauld-Malebranche Debate", in Minds, Ideas, and Objects: Essays on the Theory of Representation in Modern Philosophy, P. Cummins and G. Zoeller, eds., North American Kant Society Studies in Philosophy (Ridgeview Publishing, 1993).
"The Occasionalism of Louis de la Forge", in Causation in Early Modern Philosophy, S. Nadler, ed. (Penn State Press, 1993), 57-73.
"Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche", Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), 31- 47.
"Malebranche and the Vision in God: A Note on The Search After Truth III.2.iii", Journal of the History of Ideas 52 (1991), 309-314.
"Berkeley's Ideas and the Primary-Secondary Distinction", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1990), 47-61.
"Deduction, Confirmation, and the Laws of Nature in Descartes' Principia Philosophiae", Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1990), 359-383.
"Cartesianism and Port-Royal", The Monist 71 (1988), 573-581.
"Ideas and Perception in Malebranche", Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 2 (1988), 41-60.
"Arnauld, Descartes, and Transubstantiation: Reconciling Cartesian Metaphysics and Real Presence", Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (1988), 229-246.
"Scientific Certainty and the Creation of the Eternal Truths: A Problem in Descartes", The Southern Journal of Philosophy 25 (1987), 175-192.
"Reid, Arnauld, and the Objects of Perception", History of Philosophy Quarterly 3 (1986), 165-173.
"Probability and Truth in Plato's Apology", Philosophy and Literature 9 (1985), 198-201.
Review of Denis Moreau, Malebranche, for the "Bulletin Cartésien", Archives de Philosophie (2007).
Review of M.-F. Pellegrin, Le Système de la loi de Nicolas Malebranche, for the "Bulletin Cartésien", Archives de Philosophie (forthcoming).
Review of Christia Mercer and Eileen O'Neill (eds.), Early Modern Philosophy, for Mind (forthcoming).
Review of Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkers, eds., Spinoza to the Letter: Studies in Words, Texts and Books, for the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2006).
Review of Denis Kambouchner, Les Méditations métaphysiques de Descartes, for Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (2006).
Review of Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy, for the "Bulletin Cartésien", Archives de Philosophie (2005).
Review of Vincent Carraud, Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez à Leibniz, in Journal of the History of Philosophy (2004).
Review of Aaron Garrett, Meaning in Spinoza's Method, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2004).
Review of Richard Watson, Cogito, Ergo Sum: A Biography of Descartes, for Metascience (2004).
Review of Heidi Ravven and Lenn Goodman, eds., Jewish Themes in Spinoza’s Philosophy, for Boletín de Bibliografía spinozista (2004).
Review of Tad Schmaltz, Radical Cartesianism, for Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie (2003).
Review of Ami Bouganim, Le Testament de Spinoza, for Studia Spinozana (2003).
Review of James Franklin, The Science of Certainty, for Mind (2003).
Review of Theo Verbeek, Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2003).
Review of Adam Sutcliff, Judaism and Enlightenment, for Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (2003).
Review of Oli Koistinen and John Biro, eds., Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, for Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews (2003).
Review of Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment, for the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2002).
Review of Wiepe van Bunge, From Stevin to Spinoza, for the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2002).
Review of Denis Moreau, Deux Cartésiens: La polémique Arnauld-Malebranche, for the "Bulletin Cartésien", Archives de Philosophie (2001).
Review of Thomas M. Lennon, Reading Bayle, for Dialogue (2001).
Review of Charles Huenemann (ed.), New Essays on Rationalism, for Journal of the History of Philosophy (2001).
Review of Jean-Luc Marion, Cartesian Questions, in Journal of the History of Philosophy (2000).
Review of Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens, Collective Imaginings: Spinoza Past and Present, for Mind (2000).
Review of Kenneth Clatterbaugh, The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy, in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (1999).
Review of Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogues on Metaphysics and Religion, edited by Nicholas Jolley, translated by David Scott, in International Studies in Philosophy (1999).
Review of Stephen Menn, Descartes and Augustine, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998).
Review of Steven Smith, Spinoza. Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (1998).
Review of Richard Mason, The God of Spinoza, in British Journal of the History of Philosophy 6 (1998).
Review of John Yolton, Perception and Reality: A History from Descartes to Kant, in Isis (1998).
Review of Richard A. Watson, Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1997).
Reviews of Don Garrett, The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, and Samuel Shirley (trans.), Spinoza: The Letters, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (1997), 140-2.
Review of Yirmiyahu Yovel, Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind, in International Studies in Philosophy (1997).
Review of John Cottingham (ed.), Reason, Will and Sensation: Essays in Descartes's Metaphysics, in International Studies in Philosophy 24 (1997).
Review of Gabriel Albiac, La synagogue vide: Les sources marranes du spinozisme, in The European Legacy 2 (1997), 926-928.
Review of Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes: An Intellectual Biography, in Journal of Philosophy 93 (1996).
Review of Pierre-François Moreau, Spinoza: L'expérience et l'éternité, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1996), 143-145.
Review of Graeme Hunter (ed.), Spinoza: The Enduring Questions, in History of European Ideas (1995).
Review of Gareth Matthews, Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes, in The Philosophical Review 103 (1994).
Review of Tom Sorrell (ed.), The Rise of Modern Philosophy, in Isis 85 (1994), 322-23.
Review of Theo Verbeek, Descartes and the Dutch, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (1994), 672-73.
Review of Thomas M. Lennon, The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, in Isis 85 (1994), 695-6.
Review of G.W. Leibniz, De Summa Rerum: Metaphysical Papers, 1675-1676, translated by G.H.R. Parkinson (The Yale Leibniz), in Isis 84 (1993), 577-78.
Review of Patricia Easton, Thomas Lennon, and Gregor Sebba, Bibliographia Malebranchiana, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (1993), 633-34.
Review of A.-R. Ndiaye, La philosophie d'Antoine Arnauld, in British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1993); and for the Bulletin Cartésien, in Archives de philosophie 57 (1994).
Review of Antoine Arnauld, On True and False Ideas, trans. by Stephen Gaukroger; and Antoine Arnauld, On True and False Ideas. New Objections to Descartes' Meditations and Descartes' Replies, trans. by Elmar J. Kremer, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1992), 140-2; and for the "Bulletin Cartésien", in Archives de philosophie 57 (1994).
Review of Nicholas Jolley, The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes, in Isis 82 (1991), 747-8.
Review of Daisie Radner and Michael Radner, Animal Consciousness, in Environmental Ethics 13 (1991), 187-191.
Review of R.C. Sleigh, Jr., Leibniz and Arnauld: A Commentary on Their Correspondence, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (1991), 494-6.
Review of Desmond Clarke, Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV, in Isis 81 (1990), 772-3.
Review of Richard A. Watson, The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics, in International Studies in Philosophy 22 (1990), 153-4.
Review of John Yolton, Perceptual Acquaintance From Descartes to Reid, in Synthese 77 (1988), 409- 413.
Review of Francis X.J. Coleman, Neither Angel Nor Beast: The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal, in Journal of the History of Philosophy 26 (1988), 489-90.