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147Descartes'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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44The Third Meditation on Objective Being: Representation and Intentional ContentIn David Cunning (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Descartes’ Meditations, Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-67. 2014.
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13Review of Interpretation: Ways of Thinking about the Sciences and the Arts (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2011.
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106Picturing power: Representation and las meninasJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (3): 255-268. 1996.
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Mark Kulstad, Leibniz on Apperception, Consciousness, and Reflection (review)Philosophy in Review 13 107-109. 1993.
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39Family Trees: Sympathy, Comparison, and the ProliferationIn Martin Pickavé & Lisa Shapiro (eds.), Emotion and cognitive life in Medieval and early modern philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 255. 2012.
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40Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (3): 672-674. 1998.
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22Sepper, Dennis L. Descartes's Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (2): 424-425. 1996.
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1On the Eternal Truths: a Commentary on Papers by G. Walski, I. Agostini, and L. DevillairsIn G. Belgioiso (ed.), Descartes e i Suoi Avverari: incontri Cartesiani II, Le Monnier Università. pp. 61-70. 2004.
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33Mind 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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Descartes's Representation of the SelfDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1993.While Descartes's status as a "representationalist" is often a subject of vehement debate, what exactly he means by "representation" is not. I look to Descartes's early work to show that he first conceives of representation through signification, in which the sign and the signified are isomorphic; on this view, relations of representation can be arbitrary and are to be distinguished from relations of resemblance. I then examine images to show the possibility of an image constructing a relation t…Read more
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64The verificationist in spite of himselfHistory and Theory 42 (3). 2003.Review Essay of Keith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art History
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44Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic PaintingJournal of the History of Ideas 63 (3): 399-424. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Ideas 63.3 (2002) 399-424 [Access article in PDF] Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting Amy M. Schmitter [Figures] Reputation of power, is Power... Hobbes, Leviathan, Bk. I, ch. x Introduction It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word "dog" is a furry, tail-wagging m…Read more
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16Review of Paul Hoffman, Essays on Descartes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (9). 2009.
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3Noah Lemos, Common Sense: a Contemporary Defense Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 25 (6): 416-418. 2005.
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40How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional Explanation in DescartesIn Janet Broughton & John Carriero (eds.), A Companion to Descartes, Blackwell. pp. 426-444. 2007.This chapter contains section titled: The Rejection of Teleology and Its Limits Reconciling God's Goodness with Misjudgment and Misperception The Clock Analogy and Engineering the Body The Special Place of the Passions The Structure of the Passions of the Soul The Need for a General Remedy Notes References and Further Reading.
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9717th and 18th century theories of emotionsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010.1. Introduction: 1.1 Difficulties of Approach; 1.2 Philosophical Background. 2. The Context of Early Modern Theories of the Passions: 2.1 Changing Vocabulary; 2.2 Taxonomies; 2.3 Philosophical Issues in Theories of the Emotions. SUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Theories of the Emotions; Descartes; Hobbes; Malebranche; Spinoza; Shaftsbury; Hutcheson; Hume.
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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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