The Philosophical Works Of Descartes

[Thedore Rosa]

ForDescartes' major philosophical works the current Cambridge tr., 'The Philosophical Writings of Descartes', is probably the best both in terms of the Latin and French scholarship that has gone into it and in terms of philosophical finesse by which it is informed. Other translations, Hackett's or Penguin's, are pretty good but are not so complete (include fewer texts) than the Cambridge edition.

There are downloadable versions of both texts and of other Cartesian works. The trouble is this : the versions that are downloadable are usually old and copyright-expired, hence seldom any longer the best translations; and the best translations are not usually (freely) downloadable. However, you sites listed below offer good translations.

Olivia Bailey Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Harvard University). She works on questions in moral psychology and the history of moral philosophy (particularly the British moralists). Her current research is concerned with the ethical and epistemic significance of empathy.

John Campbell Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy (D.Phil, University of Oxford). His main interests are in theory of meaning, metaphysics, and philosophy of psychology. He is currently working on the question whether consciousness, and in particular sensory awareness, plays any key role in our knowledge of our surroundings. He is also working more generally on causation in psychology. He is the author of Past, Space and Self (1994) and Reference and Consciousness (2002).

Joshua Cohen Distinguished Senior Fellow (Ph.D., Harvard University). A specialist in political philosophy, he has written extensively on issues of democratic theory, freedom of expression, religious freedom, political equality, and global justice. His recent books include Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2009); Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (Oxford University Press, 2010); and The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays (Harvard University Press, 2011). He is co-editor of the Norton Introduction to Philosophy. Cohen is on the faculty at Apple University and spends one day each week at Berkeley as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the School of Law, the Department of Philosophy, and the Department of Political Science.

Shamik Dasgupta(Equity Advisor) Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., New York University). He works primarily in metaphysics and the philosophy of science, with additional research interests in epistemology and ethics. Please visit his website for further details.

Vernica Gmez Snchez Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Rutgers University). Her main research interests lie in the intersection of philosophy of science, metaphysics and cognitive science. Some of her recent work deals with the laws and vocabularies of the special sciences, and their relation to physics. She is also interested in the nature of intentionality and its role in computational explanations in cognitive science. She has recently completed a Bersoff Fellowship at NYU.

Wesley H. Holliday(Undergraduate Advisor) Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Stanford University). He has worked mainly in formal philosophy and logic, especially modal and nonclassical logic, logic and natural language, logic and probability, and logic and social choice theory. His research on voting theory and computational social choice led to the creation of StableVoting.org.

Geoffrey Lee(Equity Advisor) Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., New York University). His main areas of research interest are philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and the foundations of cognitive science and neuroscience.

John MacFarlane(Graduate Advisor) Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh). His primary research interests liein the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and related issuesin metaphysics and epistemology; he also maintains a secondaryinterest in ancient philosophy. He is the author of Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications (Oxford University Press, 2014), Philosophical Logic: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2021), and numerous articles.

Michael Martin(Fall Only) Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy (D.Phil., University of Oxford). His main interests lie in the philosophy of mind and psychology. He is forever finishing a book on nave realism in the theory of perception, titled Uncovering Appearances. Currently he is working on the puzzle of conflicting appearances; the contrast between sense perception, memory and imagination; the problem of other minds; and the objectivity of sense experience.

Kristin Primus Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. Princeton). She works primarily in early modern metaphysics and epistemology, and is currently working on a series of articles on Spinoza. See her home page for more information.

Ezra Rubenstein Acting Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. Rutgers University). His main research interests are in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of physics, and metaphysics. He is currently working on projects concerning probability and the nature of the explanatory connections between the fundamental and the non-fundamental.

Kwong-loi Shun Professor, Recalled (B. Phil., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Stanford University). Kwong-loi Shun specializes in Chinese philosophy and moral psychology, and his current research is a five-volume work on Confucian thought. The work starts with philological studies of early and later Confucian thought, then discusses methodological issues in transitioning from philological to philosophical studies, and then concludes with a philosophical study of Confucian moral psychology. He was President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) in 2017-18.

R. Jay Wallace William and Trudy Ausfahl Chair in Philosophy (B. Phil., University of Oxford; Ph.D., Princeton University). His interests lie mainly in moral philosophy and the history of ethics. Recently he has written on promising, constructivism, resentment, hypocrisy, love, regret and affirmation, and obligation. His publications include Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments (Harvard), The View from Here (Oxford), and The Moral Nexus (Princeton). During the past few years he has taught undergraduate courses on ethics, moral psychology, and free will and graduate seminars on population ethics, reactive attitudes, the evolution of moral capacities, and the moral standing of animals.

Seth Yalcin Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., MIT). He works mostly in the philosophy of language, but his research interests extend to issues in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, formal epistemology, and linguistics.

Xueyin (Snow) Zhang Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Princeton). Her primary research interests lie in formal epistemology (particularly Bayesian epistemology), philosophy of probability and decision theory. She is also interested in Chinese philosophy. Her current research concerns rational belief revision and judgment aggregation. She will start at Berkeley in July, 2023, after a Bersoff Fellowship at NYU.

Amy Rose Deal Associate Professor of Linguistics (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, Linguistics). She is a theoretical linguist with research interests in formal semantics, generative syntax, and their interaction, with special attention to modeling crosslinguistic variation and language universals. Recent work addresses the semantics and syntax of modals, embedded indexicals and indexical shift, the de re/de dicto distinction, and the mass-count distinction.

Jan Engelmann Assistant Professor of Psychology (Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). Jan is the PI of the Social Origins Lab at UC Berkeley. He studies the evolution of cooperation and morality. Many of his studies take a comparative approach: chimpanzees and human children are exposed to as-similar-as-possible experimental circumstances. The goal of this work is to determine what makes human cognition and behavior unique.

G. R. F. (John) Ferrari Professor of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (Ph.D. Cambridge University, Classics). Professor Ferrari teaches in the Ancient Greek and Roman Studies Department, where he specializes in ancient philosophy. His philosophic interests are in the areas of aesthetics, hermeneutics, and political thought. He has published primarily on Plato, with books on the Phaedrus and the Republic, and has collaborated on a new translation of the Republic.

Jodi Halpern Associate Professor, School of Public Health (M.D., Ph.D., Yale University). She is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the School of Public Health/Joint Medical Program. She works mainly on emotions and the imagination, with a longstanding focus on empathy. She is the author of From Detached Concern to Empathy: Humanizing Medical Practice (Oxford University Press). Halpern recently received a Greenwall Faculty Scholar career development award to write about emotions and envisioning future well-being, and the impact of this on serious health decisions.

Kinch Hoekstra Associate Professor of Political Science and Law (D.Phil., Oxford University). He specializes in the history of political, moral, and legal philosophy. He has written on ancient, renaissance, and early modern political thought, with a special focus on Thomas Hobbes. From 1996 to 2007, Hoekstra was a member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he also regularly taught graduate students in the Faculty of Classics and the Department of Politics and International Relations. During this same period, he was the Leveson Gower Fellow in Ancient and Modern Philosophy at Balliol College.

Anthony A. Long Irving Stone Professor of Literature Emeritus (Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies) (Ph.D., University of London). His main field of teaching andresearch is ancient philosophy. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophy and his other books include Hellenistic Philosophy (University of California Press) and Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (Oxford University Press).

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