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Douglas Lewis PhD University of Iowa
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My interests include early modern European philosophy (the metaphysics, epistemology, concept of reason, and moral and political theory of such figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, and Hume) and the developments and critiques of it in the 20th century (by, for example, positivists, language philosophers, phenomenologists, and feminists). The age of the Inquisition and of the wars of religion brought forth a number of rigorous defenses of religious toleration--different works involving different conceptions of religion and different theories of the state. I am interested in the ways in which the arguments of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise (1670) provide a more rigorous defense of freedom than those of Locke's more familiar Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). I am also concerned with promoting appreciation of the many significant philosophical works by women philosophers of the early modern period. |
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Selected Publications "Spinoza on Having a False Idea." METAPHYSICA 8 (2007). "Locke and the Problem of Slavery." Teaching Philosophy 26 (2003). "Marie de Gournay and the Engendering of Equality." Teaching Philosophy 22 (1999). "Black Elk Speaks...." With L. Bergin, K. Brown, M. Martinez, A. Phibbs, P. Sargent, and N. Scheman. Teaching Philosophy 21 (1998). "On the Aims and the Method of Spinoza's Philosophy." The Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 8 (1977). "Locke on Mixed Modes, Knowledge and Substances." With C. Aronson. Journal of the History of Philosophy 8 (1970). "The Existence of Substances and Locke's Way of Ideas." Theoria 35 (1969). |
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