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A Game of Contexts: Prussian-German Professional Wargames and the Leadership Concept of Mission Tactics 1870–1880 by Schuurman, Paul

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What-If at Waterloo. Carl von Clausewitz's use of historical counterfactuals in his history of the Campaign of 1815 by Schuurman, Paul

“…In this article, I analyze the use of historical counterfactuals in the Campaign of 1815 by Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831). Such is the importance of…”
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Models of war 1770-1830: the birth of wargames and the trade-off between realism and simplicity by Schuurman, Paul

“…The first sophisticated wargames (military board games) were developed between 1770 and 1830 and are models of military conflict. Designers of these early…”
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Herbert Spencer and the paradox of war by Schuurman, Paul

“…In his recent War: What Is It Good For? (2014) Ian Morris posits an even stronger paradox: war itself, rather than merely a preparedness for war, has had…”
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War as a System: A Three-Stage Model for the Development of Clausewitz's Thinking on Military Conflict and Its Constraints by Schuurman, Paul

“…This article presents a new model for the development of Carl von Clausewitz's thinking on the factors that constrain warfare. The model posits three stages in…”
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Fénelon on Luxury, War and Trade in the Telemachus by Schuurman, Paul

“…In his novel The Adventures of Telemachus, François de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651-1715) presents a utopian society, Boetica, in which the role of luxury, war and…”
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The Cat's Grand Strategy: Pieter de la Court (1618-1685) on Holland and the Challenges and Prospects of Free-Riding Behaviour during the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century by Schuurman, Paul

“…In the present article it is argued that Pieter de la Court's Political Maxims of the State of Holland presented a remarkably consistent grand strategy for…”
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Determinism and Causal Feedback Loops in Montesquieu's Explanations for the Military Rise and Fall of Rome by Schuurman, Paul

“…Montesquieu's Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence (1733/1734) is a methodological exercise in causal explanation on…”
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Clausewitz on Real War by Schuurman, Paul

“…Schuurman discusses Carl Philip Gottfried von Clausewitz's theory on war. The rich literature on war and warfare by Clausewitz's contemporaries and…”
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D eterminism and C ausal F eedback L oops in M ontesquieu's E xplanations for the M ilitary R ise and F all of R ome by Schuurman, Paul

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Continuity and change in the empiricism of John Locke and Gerardus de Vries (1648–1705) by Schuurman, Paul

“…Locke has often been hailed as the father of an empiricism that provided a philosophical basis to natural science in the Age of Enlightenment. In this article…”
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Locke's way of ideas as context for his theory of education in Of the Conduct of the Understanding by Schuurman, Paul

“…The central theme of John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding is human error. The Conduct was conceived as an additional chapter to An Essay concerning…”
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LOCKE'S LOGIC OF IDEAS IN CONTEXT: CONTENT AND STRUCTURE by Schuurman, Paul

“…Gives an account of the content of Locke's logic of ideas and places it in a context that takes into account the often complicated relation between content and…”
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RENÉ DESCARTES' HYBRIDE FYSICA: ZEKERE PRINCIPES EN HYPOTHETISCHE MODELLEN by Schuurman, Paul

“…The interpretation of Descartes’ physics as given in the Principia Philosophiae should take into account the fundamental differences between its two levels…”
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Locke's way of ideas as context for his theory of education in Of the Conduct of the Understanding by Schuurman, Paul

“…The central theme of John Locke's Of the Conduct of the Understanding is human error. The Conduct was conceived as an additional chapter to An Essay concerning…”
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Book reviews by Stone, M.W.F., Floridi, Luciano, Henry, John, Springborg, Patricia, Stone, M. W. F., Riley, Patrick, Schuurman, Paul, Look, Brandon, Hutton, Sarah, Thomas, D. O., Adair‐Toteff, Christopher

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Book reviews by Stone, M.W.F., Floridi, Luciano, Henry, John, Springborg, Patricia, Stone, M. W. F., Riley, Patrick, Schuurman, Paul, Look, Brandon, Hutton, Sarah, Thomas, D. O., Adair-Toteff, Christopher

“…The Cambridge Companion to Humanism. Jill Kraye (ed.). Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii + 320. £35.00…”
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