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31Epicureanism in the early modern periodIn James Warren (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, Cambridge University Press. pp. 266. 2009.
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3113 The reception of Leibniz in the eighteenth centuryIn Nicholas Jolley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, Cambridge University Press. pp. 442. 1995.
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30Response to Ohad Nachtomy’s “Individuals, Worlds, and RelationsThe Leibniz Review 11 125-129. 2001.Ohad Nachtomy restates the main points of “Plenitude and Compossibility” with admirable fidelity and economy. His proposed revisions, based on the distinction between incomplete and complete substances and on the mind-relativity of relations, are intriguing additions to his earlier paper in Studia Leibnitiana and deserve careful consideration. Some brief remarks on the context of the problem, will, I hope, help to set the stage for the assessment of our various views.
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29Review of Daniel Callcut (ed.), Reading Bernard Williams (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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28Evolutionary ethicsIn Mohan Matthen & Christopher Stephens (eds.), Philosophy of Biology, Elsevier. pp. 219. 2007.
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28Hide Ishiguro., Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language (review)International Studies in Philosophy 26 (2): 128-129. 1994.
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28Curiosity and conciliation: A new Leibniz biographyModern Intellectual History 9 (2): 409-421. 2012.
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27Review of Alan Thomas (ed.), Bernard Williams (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5). 2008.
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27Review of Victoria Kahn, Neil saccamano, Daniela coli (eds.), Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850 (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (11). 2006.
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27Self-deception and psychological realismPhilosophical Investigations 3 (4): 47-60. 1980.Philosophers interested in the "paradox of self-Deception" have argued that self-Deception either (a) does not occur; (b) occurs but is unintelligible; or (c) can be explained by reference to sub-Components of a single personality. I argue that self-Deception can be explained as a variety of weakness of the will, Without the realist's mythology of dual or triple selves
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27The Scientific Perspective on Moral ObjectivityEthical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (4): 723-736. 2017.The naturalistic approach to metaethics is sometimes identified with a supervenience theory relating moral properties to underlying descriptive properties, thereby securing the possibility of objective knowledge in morality as in chemistry. I reject this approach along with the purely anthropological approach which leads to an objectionable form of relativism. There is no single method for arriving at moral objectivity any more than there is a single method that has taken us from alchemy to mode…Read more
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25Visual Surface and Visual Symbol: the Microscope and the Occult in Early Modern ScienceJournal of the History of Ideas 49 (1): 85. 1988.
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23Interaction with the Reader in Kant's Transcendental Theory of MethodHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 10 (1). 1993.
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23Descartes's gambit Peter J. Markie , 278 pp., $30.25, cloth (review)History of European Ideas 9 (6): 741-742. 1988.
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22Instruments and Ideologies: The Social Construction of Knowledge and Its CriticsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 33 (2). 1996.
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21Descartes: The probable and the certain: M. Glouberman , 374pp (review)History of European Ideas 10 (3): 384-385. 1989.
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19Consciousness as a Biological PhenomenonThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 25 71-87. 2018.Reversing centuries of methodological caution and skepticism, philosophers have begun to explore the possibility that experience in some form is widely distributed in the universe. It has been proposed that consciousness may pertain to machines, rocks, elementary particles, and perhaps the universe itself. This paper shows why philosophers have good reason to suppose that experiences are widely distributed in living nature, including worms and insects, but why panpsychism extending to non-living…Read more
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18Review: Losonsky, Enlightenment and Action From Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (1). 2002.
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18Up at the Fork of the Creek: In Search of American PopulismTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 1995 (104): 77-88. 1995.
Catherine Wilson
CUNY Graduate Center
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CUNY Graduate CenterDistinguished Professor (Part-time)
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Social and Political Philosophy |