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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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Where is my mind?: locating the mind metaphysically in HobbesIn Rebecca Copenhaver (ed.), History of the Philosophy of Mind, Vol. 4: Philosophy of Mind in the Early Modern and Modern Ages, Routledge. 2018.
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9Enlightenment LiberalismIn Randall Curren (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Wiley-blackwell. 2003.This chapter contains sections titled: Editor's Prologue Descartes John Locke John Stuart Mill.
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18Editors' 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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34Editors' 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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29Mary 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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41Cartesian 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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118Cartesian 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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27Krausz, Michael. Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (1): 165-167. 1996.
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39The Passionate Intellect: Reading the (Non-) Opposition of Intellect and Emotion in DescartesIn Joyce Jenkins, Jennifer Whiting & Christopher Williams (eds.), Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier, University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 48-82. 2005.
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Obrazujac wladzę: przedstawienie i Las MeninasIn Andrzej Witko (ed.), Tajemnica Las Meninas, Wydawnictwo Aa. pp. 303-330. 2006.Translation of "Picturing Power: Representation and Las Meninas" (2006).
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55Passions, affections, sentiments: Taxonomy and terminologyIn James Anthony Harris (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 197. 2013.Taxonomy and terminology might seem like dull topics. But the diverse ways that eighteenth-century philosophers identified and classified the emotions crucially shaped the approaches they took. This chapter traces the sources available to eighteenth-century British philosophers for naming and ordering the passions, lays out the main vocabulary and concepts used for description and analysis, including the notions of “reflection” and “sympathy,” and outlines the principles that organized explanati…Read more
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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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66Formal 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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100Descartes 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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76Making an Object of Yourself: Hume on the Intentionality of the PassionsIn Jon Miller (ed.), Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind (Springer), Springer Verlag. pp. 223-40. 2008.
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157Descartes'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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110Picturing 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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