PHILOSOPHY: faculty
The City University of New York Graduate Center
Emily Michael
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Email:
emichael@gc.cuny.edu
Research Interests
- History of Philosophy (Early Modern Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Scottish Philosophy)
Courses Recently Taught
- Early Theories of Mind/Body/Matter (Spring 2004)
Representative Publications
- "Sennert's Sea Change: Atoms and Causes," Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, ed. Christoph Luthy, John E. Murdoch, & William R. Newman (Brill, 2001), pp. 331-363.
- "Renaissance Theories of Body, Soul, and Mind," Psyche and Soma in the History of Western Medicine and Philosophy, ed. Potter and Wright (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 147 - 173.
- "Reid's Critique of the Logic of Ideas," Reid Studies ,1999, pp. 3 - 17.
- "Descartes and Gassendi on Matter and Mind: From Aristotelian Pluralism to Early Modern Dualism," Meeting of the Minds (Recontres de Philosophie Medievale, 7), ed. Stephen F. Brown (Turnhout: Brepols, 1998) , pp. 145 - 166.
- "Francis Hutcheson and the Glasgow School of Logic," Logic and the Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in Early Modern Philosophy, ed. P. Easton, North American Kant Society, (Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1997), pp. 83-97.
- "Daniel Sennert on Matter and Form: At the Juncture of the Old and the New," Early Science and Medicine, pp. 272 - 300, 1997.