DAVID BLUMENFELD
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​Section A:  Miscellaneous papers from undergraduate, graduate and professorial days

  1. “Living Life Over Again,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September 2009.
  2. “Freedom and Mind Control,” The American Philosophical Quarterly, July 1988.
  3. “On the Compossibility of the Divine Attributes,” Philosophical Studies, July 1987.
  4. “Can I Know that  I Am Not Dreaming?” (with Jean Beer Blumenfeld) in Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. Michael Hooker, 1978.
  5. “The Principle of Alternate Possibilities,” The Journal of Philosophy, June 1971.
  6. "Free Action and Unconscious Motivation," The Monist, July 1972. (Revised from dissertation)
  7. “Punishment for Intentions,” (with Gerald Dworkin) Mind, July 1966. (Graduate school paper)
  8. “On Not Seeing Double,” Philosophical Quarterly April 1959.  (Undergraduate paper)
  
Section B:  Selected papers on Leibniz

  1. “Perfection and Happiness in the Best Possible World,” in The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, ed. Nicholas Jolley, 1995.
  2. “Leibniz’s Ontological and Cosmological Arguments” in The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz.
  3. “Freedom, Contingency and Things Possible in Themselves,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September 1988.
Anthologized in Essays on Early Modern Philosophers, ed. Vere Chappell, 1991/92 vol. 12 on Leibniz and in G. W. Leibniz: Critical Assessments, ed. R. S. Woolhouse, 1994.“
    4. "Leibniz on Contingency and Infinite Analysis," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, June 1985.
    5. “Superessentialism, Counterparts and Freedom, in Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. Michael Hooker, 1982.
    6. “Is the Best Possible World Possible?” The Philosophical Review, April 1975.
    7. “Leibniz’s Theory of the Striving Possibles,” Studia Leibnitiana, 1973.
Anthologized in Leibniz: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science, ed. R. S. Woolhouse, ed. Vere Chappell,1991/92, vol. 12 on   Leibniz; and G. W. Leibniz: Critical Assessments, ed. R. S. Woolhouse, 1994.
    8. "Leibniz's Modal Proof of the Possibility of God," Studia Leibnitiana, 1972.

Section A.                        

1. ​“Living Life Over Again,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September 2009.


2. ​“Freedom and Mind Control,” The American Philosophical Quarterly, July 1988.


3. ​“On the Compossibility of the Divine Attributes,” Philosophical Studies, July 1987.


4. ​“Can I Know that  I Am Not Dreaming?” (with Jean Beer Blumenfeld) in Descartes: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. Michael Hooker, 1978.


5. ​“The Principle of Alternate Possibilities,” The Journal of Philosophy, June 1971.


6. ​"Free Action and Unconscious Motivation," The Monist, July 1972. (Revised from dissertation)


7. ​“Punishment for Intentions,” (with Gerald Dworkin) Mind, July 1966. (Graduate school paper)


8. ​“On Not Seeing Double,” Philosophical Quarterly April 1959.  (Undergraduate paper)

Section B.

1. ​“Perfection and Happiness in the Best Possible World,” in The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, ed. Nicholas Jolley, 1995.

2. “Leibniz’s Ontological and Cosmological Arguments” in The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz.

3. “Freedom, Contingency and Things Possible in Themselves,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, September 1988.

4. "Leibniz on Contingency and Infinite Analysis," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, June 1985.

5. “Superessentialism, Counterparts and Freedom, in Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. Michael Hooker, 1982.

6. “Is the Best Possible World Possible?” The Philosophical Review, April 1975.

7. “Leibniz’s Theory of the Striving Possibles,” Studia Leibnitiana, 1973.

8. ​"Leibniz's Modal Proof of the Possibility of God," Studia Leibnitiana, 1972.

DAVID BLUMENFELD

​Philosophy Professor and Author
dcblumenfeld@gmail.com   
P. O. Box 20724
St. Simons Island, GA 31522

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