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23How We Experience the World: Passionate Perception in DescartesIn Martin Pickavé & Lisa Shapiro (eds.), Emotion and cognitive life in Medieval and early modern philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 193. 2012.
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472Instrumental or Immersed Experience: Pleasure, Pain and Object Perception in LockeIn CT Wolfe & O. Gal (eds.), The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science, Springer. pp. 265--285. 2010.
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30Review of Deborah J. brown, Descartes and the Passionate Mind (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (3). 2007.
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51Descartes’s Moral Theory (review)Philosophical Review 110 (2): 270-272. 2001.John Marshall aims, in Descartes’s Moral Theory, to “introduce Descartes’s moral thought to an anglophone audience”. He provides such an introduction not only in that he surveys Descartes’s writings on ethics from the Discourse, through his correspondence, to The Passions of the Soul, but also in that he presents a sustained argument for a reading of how these writings all fit together.
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What Do the Expressions of the Passions Tell us?Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 1 45-66. 2004.
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65Memory in the MeditationsRes Philosophica 92 (1): 41-60. 2015.This paper considers just how memory works throughout the Meditations to adduce Descartes’s conception of memory. Examining the meditator’s memory at work raises some questions about the nature of Cartesian memory and its epistemic role. What is the distinction between remembering and repeating a thought? If remembering is not simply repeating a thought, then what is involved in properly remembering? Can we remember properly while adding or shifting content, say, in virtue of articulating relati…Read more
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155Descartes’s Passions of the SoulPhilosophy Compass 1 (3): 268-278. 2006.While Descartes’s Passions of the Soul has been taken to hold a place in the history to human physiology, until recently philosophers have neglected the work. In this research summary, I set Descartes’s last published work in context and then sketch out its philosophical significance. From it, we gain further insight into Descartes’s solution to the Mind--Body Problem -- that is, to the problem of the ontological status of the mind--body union in a human being, to the nature of body--mind causat…Read more
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68Spinoza on Imagination and the AffectsIn Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (ed.), Emotional Minds, De Gruyter. pp. 89. 2012.
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