Dr Paul S MacDonald

Areas of Research Expertise:

• Phenomenology and Existentialism;
• 17th Century Metaphysics;
• Ancient Theories of Mind and Soul.

Current Teaching Units:

• PHL218/418 “Critical Metaphysics”
• PHL216/416 “Ancient Greek Ideas”
• PHL201/401 “Existence and Freedom”
• PHL230/430 “Theories of Mind”

Publications:

• Books:
  

  Descartes and Husserl: The Philosophical Project of Radical Beginnings.SUNY Press, 2000.

  (Editor) The Existentialist Reader: An Anthology of Key Texts. Routledge, 2001.

  History of the Concept of Mind vol. 1: Speculations about Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume.Ashgate, 2003.

  History of the Concept of Mind vol. 2: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition. Ashgate, 2006.

  (Editor) Kenelm Digby’s Two Treatises: of Bodies and of Man’s Soul. E. J. Brill, 2009.

• Journal Articles (recent only)
  

  “Phenomenological Factors in Vygotsky’s Mature Psychology”, in J. Hist Human Sciences, vol. 13, no. 3. (Aug. 2000)

  “Husserl’s Preemptive Responses to Existentialist Critiques”, in Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, vol. 1 (Fall 2001)

  “Current Approaches to Phenomenology”, in Inquiry vol. 44, no.1 (Apr. 2001)

  “Descartes - The Lost Episodes”, in J. Hist. Phil, vol. 40, no. 4 (Oct. 2002)

  “Husserl and the Cubists on a Thing in Space”, in J. Brit. Soc. Phen. vol. 36, no. 3 (Oct. 2005)

  “Palaeo-Philosophy: Complex and Concept in Archaic Patterns of Thought” in Cosmos and History, vol. 1 no.2 (Nov. 2005)

  “Husserl against Heidegger against Husserl”, in P. D. Ashworth & Man Chung (Eds.) Phenomenology and Psychological Science. NY & London: Springer, 2006.

  “Francis Bacon’s Behavioral Psychology”, in J. Hist. Behavioral Sciences, vol. 43 (Sum. 2007)

  “Husserl, the Monad and Immortality”, in Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology. vol. 9 (2007)

  “Palaeo-Philosophy II: Archaic ideas about knowledge in Homeric Greek, Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian texts” in Martin Oven (Ed.) Comparative Philosophy. Cambridge, forthcoming

  “Leibniz, the Pessimum and the Death Penalty”, forthcoming

  
  

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