David Cunning
Associate Professor
and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Philosophy
The University of
Iowa
250
English-Philosophy Bldg.
Voice: (319) 335-0027
Fax: (319) 353-2322
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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
-
Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations, New York: Oxford University
Press (June 2010), 248 pp.
- Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations, Cambridge University Press (under contract)
Articles and Reviews
- "Descartes on God and the Products of His Will," Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. J. Diller and A. Kasher, Springer Publishing (2011)
- "Introduction," forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations, ed. D. Cunning, Cambridge University Press
- "The First Meditation: Divine Omnipotence, the Eternal Truths, and the Possibility of Radical Deception," The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations
- "True and Immutable Natures," The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan, Cambridge University Press
- "Analysis vs. Synthesis," The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan, Cambridge University Press
- Review of K. Smith, Matter Matters, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (2011), 997-1001
- "Mind-Body
Problems," The Routledge Companion to
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy,
ed. D. Kaufman, Routledge Publishing
- “Margaret
Lucas Cavendish,” The Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy,
ed. E. Zalta (2009), 43 pp.
-
Review (co-authored)
of M. Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II, Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008), 644-5
- "Malebranche
and Occasional Causes," Philosophy Compass 3 (2008), 1-20
- "Fifth
Meditation TINs Revisited: A Reply to Criticisms of the Epistemic Interpretation,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2008), 215-227
- "Nicolas
Malebranche," The Biographical Encyclopedia of
Astronomers, ed. T. Hockey,
Springer Academic Publishers (2007), 731-2
- "Semel
in Vita: Descartes' Stoic View on
the Place of Philosophy in Human Life," Faith
and Philosophy 24 (2007), 164-183
- "Descartes on
the Dubitability of the Existence of Self," Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research 74 (2007), 111-131
- "Cavendish on
the Intelligibility of the Prospect of Thinking Matter," History
of Philosophy Quarterly 23 (2006),
117-136
-
"Descartes
on Sensations and Ideas of Sensations,"An
Anthology of Philosophical Studies,
Athens: Atiner Publishing (2006), 17-32
-
Review of D.
Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West, Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews (2005)
-
"Rationalism
and Education," A Companion to Rationalism, ed. A. Nelson, Blackwell Publishing (2005), 61-81
-
Editor and
translator, “Principii
Cartesia” by Robert Percy Smith, The Philological
Museum (2004), ed. D. Sutton
-
"Systematic
Divergences in Malebranche and Cudworth," Journal
of the History of Philosophy 41
(2003), 343-363
- "True and
Immutable Natures and Epistemic Progress in Descartes' Meditations," British Journal for the
History of Philosophy 11 (2003),
235-248
-
"Descartes on
the Immutability of the Divine Will," Religious
Studies 39 (2003), 79-92
- "Descartes'
Modal Metaphysics," The Stanford Encyclopedia
of Philosophy (2002), ed. E. Zalta, 37 pp.
- "Agency and
Consciousness," Synthese 120 (1999), 271-294
- "Modality and
Cognition in Descartes" (co-authored), Acta
Philosophica Fennica 64 (1999), 137-153
Below are some links to materials that might
be useful.
Page updated 26 October 2010.