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James, Susan (2024) Spinoza and the Poetic Imagination. Australasian Philosophical Review 7 (1), pp. 9-27. ISSN 2474-0500.

James, Susan (2023) Models of contact: ontological, linguistic, medical and political. British Journal for the History of Philosophy , ISSN 0960-8788. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2023) Learning to live more equitably. Southern Journal of Philosophy , ISSN 0038-4283.

James, Susan (2016) Why should we read Spinoza? Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 78 , pp. 109-125. ISSN 1358-2461.

James, Susan (2016) Freedom and nature: a Spinozist invitation. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CXVI (1), ISSN 1467-9264.

James, Susan (2015) Metaphysics and empowerment: Moore on the place of metaphysics in Spinoza’s philosophy. Philosophical Topics 43 (1/2), ISSN 0276-2080.

James, Susan (2012) When does truth matter? Spinoza on the relation between theology and philosophy. European Journal of Philosophy 20 (1), pp. 91-108. ISSN 0966-8373.

James, Susan (2011) Creating rational understanding: Spinoza as a social epistemologist. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 85 (1), pp. 181-199. ISSN 1467-8349.

James, Susan (2008) Passion and striving: the language of emotion and political hierarchy. Textual Practice 22 (1), pp. 55-70. ISSN 1470-1308.

Book Review

James, Susan (2020) Descartes’s fictions: reading philosophy with poetics, Gilby, Emma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, x + 226 pp., £55.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-883189-1. [Book Review]

Book Section

James, Susan (2022) The relationship between philosophy and its history. In: Bourke, R. and Skinner, Q. (eds.) History in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 211-229. ISBN 9781009231008. (In Press)

James, Susan (2022) The question of personal identity. In: Maitra, K. and MacWeeney, J. (eds.) Feminist Philosophy of Mind. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190867614.

James, Susan (2021) Spinoza's philosophical religion. In: Garrett, D. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316156186.

James, Susan (2021) Introduction to 'Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy'. In: James, Susan (ed.) Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192843616. (In Press)

James, Susan (2021) Michel Foucault on knowledge. In: Finn, S. (ed.) Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198859925. (In Press)

James, Susan (2021) Spinoza on the constitution of animal species. In: Melamed, Y.Y. (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Spinoza. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781119538646.

James, Susan (2020) The affective cost of philosophical self-transformation. In: James, Susan (ed.) Spinoza on Learning to Live Together. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780198713074.

James, Susan (2020) Fortitude: living in the light of our knowledge. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Spinoza on Learning to Live Together. Springer. ISBN 9780198713074. (In Press)

James, Susan (2019) Responding emotionally to fiction: a Spinozist approach. In: O'Hear, A. (ed.) Passions and the Emotions. The Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 85. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108748049.

James, Susan (2018) Hermaphroditical mixtures. In: Thomas, E. (ed.) Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religon, and Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 31-48. ISBN 9781316827192.

James, Susan (2018) 'Hermaphroditical mixtures': Margaret Cavendish on nature and art. In: Thomas, E. (ed.) Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religon, and Science. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107178687.

James, Susan (2017) A virtuous practice: Descartes on scientific activity. In: Wilson, C. and Gaukroger, S. (eds.) Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 26-41. ISBN 9780198779643.

James, Susan (2016) Mary's Wollstonecraft's conception of rights. In: Berges, S. and Coffee, A. (eds.) The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 148-165. ISBN 9780198766841.

James, Susan (2016) Wanting to understand. Spinoza on the virtue of fortitudo. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Spinoza Research: To be continued. Voorschoten, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Spinozahuis, pp. 67-79. ISBN 9789490250218.

James, Susan (2015) Rights as an Expression of Republican Freedom. Spinoza on Right and Power. In: Roshchin, E. (ed.) "Права как выражение республиканской свободы. Спиноза о праве и силе”. Res publica 9. St. Petersburg, Russia: Publishing House of the European University Press in St. Petersburg. ISBN 9785943801938.

James, Susan (2012) Spinoza on the passionate dimension of philosophical reasoning. In: Ebbersmeyer, S. (ed.) Emotional Minds. The Passions and the Limits of Pure Inquiry in Early Modern Philosophy. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110260922.

James, Susan (2010) Narrative as the means to freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination. In: Melamed, Y.K. and Rosenthal, M.A. (eds.) Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 250-267. ISBN 9780521882293.

James, Susan (2010) Politically-mediated affects: envy in Spinoza's Tractatus Politicus. In: Melamed, Y.Y. (ed.) A Critical Guide to Spinoza's Tractatus Politicus: A Critical Guide. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 250-267. ISBN 9781107636927.

James, Susan (2010) Politics and the progress of sentiments. In: Auxier, R.E. and Hahn, L.E. (eds.) The Philosophy of Richard Rorty. The Library of Living Philosophers XXXII. Open Court. ISBN 9780812696417.

James, Susan (2009) Freedom, slavery and the passions. In: Koistinen, O. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 223-241. ISBN 9780521853392.

James, Susan (2009) The philosophical innovations of Margaret Cavendish. In: Mendelson, S.H. (ed.) Margaret Cavendish. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England 7. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754660811.

James, Susan (2009) Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics. In: Gatens, M. (ed.) Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza. Pennsylvania, U.S.: Penn State University Press. ISBN 9780271035161.

James, Susan (2009) Shakespeare and the politics of superstition. In: Armitage, D. and Condren, C. and Fitzmaurice, A. (eds.) Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107692503.

James, Susan (2008) Democracy and the good life in Spinoza's philosophy. In: Huenemann, C (ed.) Interpreting Spinoza: critical essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 128-146. ISBN 9780521871839.

Conference or Workshop Item

James, Susan (2013) Are moral rights natural or artificial? Hobbes and Spinoza. In: Are moral rights natural or artificial? Hobbes and Spinoza, 2013, The Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2013) Spinoza on philosophy, religion and politics. In: Author meets Critics Workshop, 2013, The Institute of Advanced Study, University of Gottingen. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2013) Wollstonecraft and rights. In: Workshop on the Social and Political thought of Mary Wollstonecraft, 2013, Institute of the Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2012) Civil and religious power in Spinoza's 'Tractatus Theologico-Politicus'. In: Spinoza and the Theologico-Political Complex, 2012, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2012) Rights as an expression of republican freedom. In: The Republican Tradition from the Hanseatic League to the Era of Enlightenment, 2012, European University, St. Petersburg. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2012) Spinoza on philosophy, religion and politics. In: Author meets Critics Workshop, 2012, Department of Philosophy, University of Ghent. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2012) Spinoza on philosophy, religion and politics. In: Encountering the Author series, 2012, The Department of Philosophy, University of Western Sydney, Australia. (Unpublished)

James, Susan (2012) Wollstonecraft on rights. In: Joint Conference of SWIP Ireland and SWIP UK, 2012, Dublin, Ireland, UK. (Unpublished)

Book

James, Susan, ed. (2021) Life and death in early modern philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192843616. (In Press)

James, Susan (2020) Spinoza on learning to live together. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198713074.

James, Susan (2012) Spinoza on philosophy, religion, and politics: the theologico-political treatise. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199698127.

James, Susan (2008) The content of social explanation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521103527.

James, Susan, ed. (2003) Margaret Cavendish: political writings. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521633505.

James, Susan and Palmer, S., eds. (2002) Visible women: essays on feminist legal theory and political philosophy. London, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781841131955.

James, Susan (1997) Passion and action: the emotions in seventeenth-century philosophy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198236740.

Bock, G. and James, Susan, eds. (1992) Beyond equality and difference: citizenship, feminist politics and female subjectivity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415079891.