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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.

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”