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74Passions and affectionsIn Peter R. Anstey (ed.), The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, Oxford University Press. pp. 442-471. 2013.This chapter examines the views of seventeenth-century British philosophers on passions and affections. It explains that about 8,000 books published during this period mentioned passion and that it started with Thomas Wright's Passions of the Mind in General. The chapter also explores the intellectual basis of the writers who wrote about passion – which includes Augustinianism, Aristotelianism, stoicism, Epicureanism, and medicine – and furthermore, analyzes the relevant works of Francis Bacon, …Read more
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62Mind and Sign: Method and the Interpretation of Mathematics in Descartes’s Early WorkCanadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (3): 371-411. 2000.Method may be second only to substance-dualism as the best-known among Descartes's enthusiasms. But knowing that Descartes wants to promote good method is one thing; knowing what exactly he wants to promote is another. Two views seem fairly widespread. The first rests on the claim that Descartes endorses a purely procedural picture of reason, so that right reasoning is a matter of proprieties of operation, rather than respect for its objects. On this view, a method for regulating our reason woul…Read more
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51About representation; or, how to avoid being caught between animal perception and human languageJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 255-272. 2000.
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57The Wax and I. Perceptibility and Modality in the Second MeditationArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 82 (2): 178-201. 2000.
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32Representation, Self-Representation, and the Passions in DescartesReview of Metaphysics 48 (2). 1994.THAT DESCARTES WAS INTERESTED from the very start of his philosophic career in developing a method for problem-solving that could be applied generally to the solution of "unknowns" is well known. Also well known is the further development of the method by the introduction of the technique of hyperbolic doubt in his mature, metaphysical works, especially in the Meditations. Perhaps less widely appreciated is the important role that accounts of systems of signs played in the development of his ear…Read more
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27Krausz, Michael. Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 165-167. 1996.
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Obrazujac wladzę: przedstawienie i Las MeninasIn Andrzej Witko (ed.), Tajemnica Las Meninas, Wydawnictwo Aa. pp. 303-330. 2006.Translation of "Picturing Power: Representation and Las Meninas" (2006).
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38The Passionate Intellect: Reading the (Non-) Opposition of Intellect and Emotion in DescartesIn Joyce Jenkins, Jennifer Whiting & Christopher Williams (eds.), Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 48-82. 2005.
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51Passions, affections, sentiments: Taxonomy and terminologyIn James A. Harris (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press. pp. 197. 2013.Taxonomy and terminology might seem like dull topics. But the diverse ways that eighteenth-century philosophers identified and classified the emotions crucially shaped the approaches they took. This chapter traces the sources available to eighteenth-century British philosophers for naming and ordering the passions, lays out the main vocabulary and concepts used for description and analysis, including the notions of “reflection” and “sympathy,” and outlines the principles that organized explanati…Read more
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2Mark Kulstad, Leibniz on Apperception, Consciousness, and Reflection Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (3): 107-109. 1993.
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65Formal Causation and the Explanation of Intentionality in DescartesThe Monist 79 (3): 368-387. 1996.Whatever may be its other sins, the history of philosophy cannot be faulted for the fleetingness of its memory: "modern" philosophy, after all, is supposed to begin with a figure born 400 years ago, René Descartes. Indeed, even the view that it began then can trace its ancestry back to Descartes. But it would be historically naïve simply to agree with Descartes's self-congratulatory myth of creating a new philosophy ex nihilo. His achievement was a tremendous one, rightfully seen as provoking a …Read more
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99Descartes and the primacy of practice: The role of the passions in the search for truthPhilosophical Studies 108 (1-2). 2002.This paper argues that Descartes conceives of theoretical reason in terms derived from practical reason, particularly in the role he gives to the passions. That the passions serve — under normal circumstances — to preserve the union of mind and body is a well-known feature of Descartes's defense of our native make-up. But they are equally important in our more purely theoretical endeavors. Some passions, most notably wonder, provide a crucial source of motivation in the search after truth, and a…Read more
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33Responses to Vulnerability: Medicine, Politics and the Body in Descartes and SpinozaIn Stephen Pender & Nancy S. Struever (eds.), Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe, Ashgate Publishing. pp. 147-171. 2012.
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18Natural Passions, Reason and Religious Emotion in Hobbes & SpinozaIn Ingolf U. Dalferth & Michael Rodgers (eds.), Passions and Passivity: Claremont Studies in Religion 2009, Mohr Siebeck. pp. 49-68. 2011.
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73Making an Object of Yourself: Hume on the Intentionality of the PassionsIn Jon Miller (ed.), Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Springer Verlag. pp. 223-40. 2009.
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149Descartes's peepshow: Critical Notice of Deborah Brown, Descartes and the Passionate Mind.Canadian Journal of Philosophy 40 (3): 485-508. 2010.Is Descartes the most misunderstood philosopher in the history of philosophy? To many of us in the business of Descartes scholarship, it certainly seems so. Time and time again, we find ourselves faced with pronouncements about one or another of Descartes's 'errors' — whether the shortcomings of the theater model of consciousness, or the pernicious after-effects of a foundationalism devoted to the transparency of the mental, or the shocking vilification of the body and emotions. Typically these …Read more
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