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62The pen and the Sword: Recovering the disciplinary identity of physiology and anatomy before 1800 - I: Old physiology-the penStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33 (4): 631-665. 2002.It is argued that the disciplinary identity of anatomy and physiology before 1800 are unknown to us due to the subsequent creation, success and historiographical dominance of a different discipline-experimental physiology. The first of these two papers deals with the identity of physiology from its revival in the 1530s, and demonstrates that it was a theoretical, not an experimental, discipline, achieved with the mind and the pen, not the hand and the knife. The physiological work of Jean Fernel…Read more
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11God and Reason in the Middle Ages (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 271-273. 2003.
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1639The Strength of Hume's "Weak" SympathyHume Studies 30 (2): 237-256. 2004.Hume’s understanding of sympathy in section 2.1.11 of the Treatise—that it is a mental mechanism by means of which one sentient being can come to share the psychological states of another—has a particularly interesting implication. What the sympathizer receives, according to this definition, is the passing psychological “affection” that the object of his sympathy was experiencing at the moment of observation. Thus the psychological connection produced by Humean sympathy is not between the sympat…Read more
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20Was eighteenth‐century sentimentalism unprecedented?British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6 (3). 1998.Considers whether the sentimentalism that emerged in the literature and philosophy of the eighteenth century was something new in Western thought.
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37Mind and Morality: An Examination of Hume’s Moral Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (1): 140-140. 1997.The main line of argument in Bricke’s stimulating and well-written interpretation of Hume’s moral theory runs roughly as follows: Hume holds that, in practical reasoning, beliefs are subordinate to desires, and is therefore a “conativist” ; we must attribute to Hume the view that both desires and beliefs have representational content, so that they are essentially distinguished by their opposite “directions of fit”—otherwise we cannot forestall the cognitivist from simply insisting that intrinsic…Read more
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Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr., and Jeffrey Paul eds., The Just Society Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (4): 280-282. 1996.
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Harry M. Clor, Public Morality and Liberal Society (review)Philosophy in Review 17 (5): 311-313. 1997.
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55Hume's vitalism and its implicationsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.Considers the significance that Hume attached to mental activity -- the "craving ... of the human mind ... for exercise and employment" -- with respect to the phenomena of truth-seeking, amusement and morality.
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
PhD, 1999
Areas of Specialization
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David Hume |
Hume: Value Theory |
Adam Smith |
17th/18th Century British Philosophy, Misc |
Bernard Mandeville |
George Berkeley |