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282Princess Elizabeth and Descartes: The union of soul and body and the practice of philosophyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (3). 1999.(1999). Princess Elizabeth and Descartes: The union of soul and body and the practice of philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 503-520. doi: 10.1080/09608789908571042
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71The health of the body-machine? Or seventeenth century mechanism and the concept of healthPerspectives on Science 11 (4): 421-442. 2003.. The concept of bodily health is problematic for mechanists like Descartes, as it seems that they need to appeal to something extrinsic to a machine, i.e., its purpose, to determine whether the machine is working well or badly, and so healthy or unhealthy. I take issue with this claim. By drawing on the history of medicine, I suggest that in the seventeenth century there was space for a non-teleological account of health. I further argue that mechanists can and did appeal to structural integrit…Read more
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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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477Instrumental 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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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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History of Western Philosophy |