Marleen Rozemond
Marleen Rozemond
Professor
BA 1979 (French literature and linguistics, Free University, Amsterdam), PhD 1989 (UCLA).
Research interests: early modern philosophy, (including connections with late medieval philosophy). Teaching also includes feminist philosophy.
Her current research project focuses on what following Kant is often called "the Achilles Argument". This argument contends that the mind must be immaterial and immortal on the ground that the subject of the mental must be simple.
Publications:
Book: Descartes's Dualism (Harvard 1998)
Articles:
“Descartes and the Immortality of the Soul”, in Mind, Method and Morality: Essays in
Honour of Anthony Kenny, Oxford University Press, 2010, John Cottingham
and Peter Hacker eds.
“Can Matter Think? The Mind-Body Problem in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence”
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Jon Miller ed., Springer Verlag, 2009)
“Leibniz on Final Causation”, Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy
of Robert Merrihew Adams, Oxford University Press 2009, pp. 279-294.
“Descartes’s Ontology of the Eternal Truths“, in Contemporary Perspectives on Early
Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell, Paul Hoffman, David Owen, Gideon Yaffe eds., Broadview Press, 2008, pp. 41-63.
“The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence”, (The Achilles of Rational Psychology, T. Lennon and R. Stainton eds., Springer Verlag, 2008)
“Peach Trees, Gravity and God: Locke on Mechanism”, with Gideon Yaffe, (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2004)
“Descartes on Mind-Body Union and Holenmerism”, (Philosophical Topics, 2003).
"Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction: What's the Problem?" (Journal of the History of Philosophy 1999)
"Leibniz on the Union of Body and Soul", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1997,
pp. 150-178
"The First Meditation and the Senses", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1996. pp. 21-52
"Descartes's Case for Dualism", The Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1995, pp. 29-
63. Reprinted in The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, Derk Pereboom ed., Rowman and Littlefield 1999
"Evans on De Re Thought", Philosophia, 1994, pp. 279-298
"The Role of the Intellect in Descartes's Case for the Incorporeity of the Mind", in Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes, Stephen Voss, ed., Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 97-114 (18 pages).
Forthcoming:
“Unity in the Multiplicity of Suárez’ Soul” (36 pages), in Henrik Lagerlund ed., New Essays on the Philosophy of Francisco Suarez, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
In progress:
“Descartes’s Simple Soul”
“Mills Can’t Think: Leibniz’ Approach to the Mind-Body Problem”
Research interests: early modern philosophy, (including connections with late medieval philosophy). Teaching also includes feminist philosophy.
Her current research project focuses on what following Kant is often called "the Achilles Argument". This argument contends that the mind must be immaterial and immortal on the ground that the subject of the mental must be simple.
| Primary Office Address: Room 274A, North Building, UTM Tel: 905-828-5349 Fax: 905-828-5202 marleen.rozemond@utoronto.ca |
Secondary Office Address: 170 St. George St., Rm. 510 Tel: 416-978-3316 Fax: 416-978-8703 on leave 2011-2012 |
Publications:
Book: Descartes's Dualism (Harvard 1998)
Articles:
“Descartes and the Immortality of the Soul”, in Mind, Method and Morality: Essays in
Honour of Anthony Kenny, Oxford University Press, 2010, John Cottingham
and Peter Hacker eds.
“Can Matter Think? The Mind-Body Problem in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence”
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Jon Miller ed., Springer Verlag, 2009)
“Leibniz on Final Causation”, Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy
of Robert Merrihew Adams, Oxford University Press 2009, pp. 279-294.
“Descartes’s Ontology of the Eternal Truths“, in Contemporary Perspectives on Early
Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell, Paul Hoffman, David Owen, Gideon Yaffe eds., Broadview Press, 2008, pp. 41-63.
“The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence”, (The Achilles of Rational Psychology, T. Lennon and R. Stainton eds., Springer Verlag, 2008)
“Peach Trees, Gravity and God: Locke on Mechanism”, with Gideon Yaffe, (British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2004)
“Descartes on Mind-Body Union and Holenmerism”, (Philosophical Topics, 2003).
"Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction: What's the Problem?" (Journal of the History of Philosophy 1999)
"Leibniz on the Union of Body and Soul", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1997,
pp. 150-178
"The First Meditation and the Senses", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1996. pp. 21-52
"Descartes's Case for Dualism", The Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1995, pp. 29-
63. Reprinted in The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, Derk Pereboom ed., Rowman and Littlefield 1999
"Evans on De Re Thought", Philosophia, 1994, pp. 279-298
"The Role of the Intellect in Descartes's Case for the Incorporeity of the Mind", in Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes, Stephen Voss, ed., Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 97-114 (18 pages).
Forthcoming:
“Unity in the Multiplicity of Suárez’ Soul” (36 pages), in Henrik Lagerlund ed., New Essays on the Philosophy of Francisco Suarez, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
In progress:
“Descartes’s Simple Soul”
“Mills Can’t Think: Leibniz’ Approach to the Mind-Body Problem”
