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David Cunning Associate Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies The University of
Iowa 250 English-Philosophy Bldg. Voice: (319) 335-0027 |
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Hi. I am a
philosophy professor at the University of Iowa. My main research and teaching
interests are in History of Modern Philosophy -- esp. in the great system
builders. I am also interested in a number of philosophical issues in
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Ethics: how and when we know that our
concepts are of the things that we would identify as their objects, and the
implications for the relevance of the results of conceptual analysis; issues of
concept-formation and belief-revision, and the way in which belief systems are
resilient in the face of evidence that might otherwise bring them down; the
relationship between body and mind, and the influence of historical conceptions
of body and mind on current conceptions of body and mind; and issues
surrounding self, agency, and accountability. I received my B.A. in Philosophy
from UC Berkeley and my Ph.D. from UC Irvine. For 2004-2005 I was a
fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Books
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Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations, Oxford University
Press, under contract
Articles and Reviews
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“Margaret
Lucas Cavendish,” commissioned for The Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy,
ed. Edward Zalta
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“Mind-Body
Problems," The Routledge Companion to
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy,
ed. D. Kaufman, Routledge Publishing
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Review (co-authored)
of M. Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II,
Journal of the History of Philosophy 46:4 (2008), 644-5
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"Malebranche
and Occasional Causes," Philosophy Compass 3 (2008), 1-20
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"Fifth
Meditation TINs Revisited: A Reply to Criticisms of the Epistemic Interpretation,”
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16:1 (2008), 215-227
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"Nicolas
Malebranche," The Biographical Encyclopedia of
Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey,
Springer Academic Publishers (2007), 731-2
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"Semel
in Vita: Descartes' Stoic View on the
Place of Philosophy in Human Life," Faith
and Philosophy 24:2 (2007), 164-183
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"Descartes on
the Dubitability of the Existence of Self," Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research
74:1 (2007), 111-131
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"Cavendish on the
Intelligibility of the Prospect of Thinking Matter," History
of Philosophy Quarterly 23:2 (2006),
117-136
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"Descartes
on Sensations and Ideas of Sensations," An
Anthology of Philosophical Studies,
Athens: Atiner Publishing (2006), 17-32
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Review of D.
Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West, Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews
(2005)
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"Rationalism
and Education," A Companion to Rationalism, ed. A. Nelson, Blackwell Publishing (2005), 61-81
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Editor and
translator, “Principii
Cartesia” by Robert Percy Smith, The Philological
Museum (2004), ed. Dana Sutton
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"Systematic
Divergences in Malebranche and Cudworth," Journal
of the History of Philosophy 41:3
(2003), 343-363
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"True and Immutable
Natures and Epistemic Progress in Descartes' Meditations," British Journal for the
History of Philosophy 11:2 (2003),
235-248
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"Descartes on
the Immutability of the Divine Will," Religious
Studies 39:1 (2003), 79-92
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"Descartes'
Modal Metaphysics," The Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (2002), ed. Edward Zalta
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"Agency and
Consciousness," Synthese 120:2 (1999), 271-294
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"Modality and
Cognition in Descartes" (co-authored), Acta
Philosophica Fennica 64 (1999), 137-153
Below are some links to materials that might be useful.
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