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I've got a little list" : classification, explanation, and the focal passions in Descartes and HobbesIn Alix Cohen & Robert Stern (eds.), Thinking about the Emotions : A Philosophical History, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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9Enlightenment LiberalismIn Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Editor's Prologue Descartes John Locke John Stuart Mill.
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16Editors' Note to Volume 45, Special Book IssueHume Studies 45 (1): 1-2. 2019.This volume of Hume Studies is a special double-issue devoted to discussions of four recent books on Hume: Hume: an Intellectual Biography, by James Harris; Imagined Causes: Hume's Conception of Objects, by Stefanie Rocknak; Hume's True Scepticism, by Donald Ainslie; and Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy, by Jacqueline Taylor. The latter three discussions began as Author-Meets-Critics sessions at the 43rd International Hume Conference in Sydney, Australia, …Read more
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27Editors' Introduction for Volume 42Hume Studies 42 (1): 3-7. 2019.The new editorial team, Ann Levey, Karl Schafer and Amy Schmitter, are very pleased to present this special double-issue of Hume Studies. It contains a wide variety of articles on subjects old and new, as well as an assortment of book reviews, commissioned by the new book review editor, David Landy of San Francisco State University. We are grateful to the many people who have helped us get this volume and our tenure as editors underway, including the preceding editors-in-chief, Angela Coventry a…Read more
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23Mary Shepherd’s Essays on the Perception of an External UniverseAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 101 (2): 516-516. 2023.A very welcome addition to the Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, this new edition of Shepherd’s 1827 book comprises the lengthy ‘Essay on the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy’ and fourteen shor...
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7Jennifer Montagu, The Expression of The Passions: The Origin and Influence of Charles Lebrun'S "Conférence Sur L'Expression Générale Et Particulière"Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54 (4): 384-385. 1996.
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39Cartesian Social Epistemology? Contemporary Social Epistemology and Early Modern PhilosophyRoczniki Filozoficzne 68 (2): 155-178. 2020.Many contemporary social epistemologists take themselves to be combatting an individualist approach to knowledge typified by Descartes. Although I agree that Descartes presents an individualist picture of scientific knowledge, he does allow some practical roles for reliance on the testimony and beliefs of others. More importantly, however, his reasons for committing to individualism raise important issues for social epistemology, particularly about how reliance on mere testimony can propagate pr…Read more
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11Descartes's Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (2): 424-425. 1996.1996 marks the 400th anniversary of Descartes' birth, and it seems only appropriate that it should bring a reevaluation of Descartes' thought and his place in the history of philosophy. Dennis Sepper's new book on the role of the imagination offers such a rethinking, proposing that--contrary to popular rumor--Descartes' entire corpus was centrally concerned with the proper uses of imagination, a concern initially informed by medieval doctrines of the internal senses and imagination. Sepper argue…Read more
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5Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 165-166. 1996.In David Lodge's novel Changing Places, the protagonist Morris Zapp recalls his plan for a series of commentaries examining Jane Austen's novels under every possible rubric, from the historical to the structuralist, the mythical to the Marxist--all in order so to monopolize interpretation as to exhaust it altogether. I take it that Michael Krausz would find Zapp's ambition both unpalatable and impracticable, although he does not actually rule it out of court. Krausz's topic is interpretive ideal…Read more
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114Cartesian prejudice: Gender, education and authority in Poulain de la BarrePhilosophy Compass 13 (12). 2018.The 17th century author François Poulain de la Barre was an important contributor to a pivotal moment in the history of feminist thought. Poulain borrows from many of Descartes’s doctrines, including his dualism, distrust of epistemic authority, accounts of imagination, and passion, and at least some aspects of his doxastic voluntarism; here I examine how he uses a Cartesian notion of prejudice for an anti-essentializing philosophy of women’s education and the formation of the tastes, talents an…Read more
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6Review: The Verificationist in Spite of Himself (review)History and Theory 42 (3): 412-423. 2003.
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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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107Picturing 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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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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10117th 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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