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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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64Formal 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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148Descartes'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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65The 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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