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Eugene Marshall Eugene Marshall Contact Department of Philosophy Office: (781) 283-3476 Information Florida International University Department: (781) 283-2620 DM 347 E-mail: [email protected] Miami, FL 33199 WWW: Website Specialty The History of Modern Philosophy Competences Ancient Philosophy, 19th Century German Philosophy, Metaphysics, Moral Psy- chology, Feminist History of Philosophy Education The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA Ph.D., Department of Philosophy, December 2006 Thesis: Akrasia in Spinoza's Ethics, Adviser: Professor Steven Nadler The University of Missouri{St. Louis St. Louis, MO USA B.A., Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, May 2000. Publications Marshall, Eugene. The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza's Science of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 2013. Marshall, Eugene. How To Teach Modern Philosophy. Teaching Philosophy, Volume 37, Issue 1, March 2014. Marshall, Eugene. Spinoza on Evil. The History of Evil. Volume III: The History of Evil in the Early Modern Age (1450-1700), Acumen Press, forth- coming. Marshall, Eugene. Man is a God to man: How Human Beings Can be Adequate Causes. Essays on Spinoza's Ethical Theory, Matthew Kisner and Andre Youpa, eds., Oxford University Press, 2014. Marshall, Eugene. Spinoza on the Problem of Akrasia. European Journal of Philosophy. 18(1):p 41-59, 2010. Marshall, Eugene. Adequacy and Innateness in Spinoza. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 4: 51-88, 2008. Marshall, Eugene. Spinoza's Cognitive Affects and their Feel. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16(1): 1-23, 2008. 1 of 4 Book Reviews Review of Susan James, Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theological-Political Treatise, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2013. Review of Matthew Kisner, Spinoza on Human Freedom: Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life, in Mind, forthcoming 2012. Review of Matthew Kisner, Spinoza on Human Freedom, Philosophy in Review, October 2011. Review of Michael LeBuffe, From Bondage to Freedom: Spinoza on Human Excellence, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2010. Work In Textbook on the History of Modern Philosophy with Routledge Progress \Spinoza's Changing Problem is No Problem At All", under review \Vitalism, panpsychism, and naturalism in the early Cavendish", under review \Margaret Cavendish," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in progress A chapter in Spinoza: Key Concepts, forthcoming from Acumen Press, edited by Andre Santos Campos Challenging the canon: Improving the climate in philosophy by reconceiving its history Selected Spinoza's Changing Problem is No Problem At All. Sentiment and Reason in Presentations Early Modern Ethics, SUNY-Buffalo, March 2014. Challenging the canon: Improving the climate for women in philosophy by recon- ceiving its history. Conference on Diversity in Philosophy, University of Day- ton, May 2013. From passion to action: A defense of Spinozist affective therapy. Symposium Paper, APA Eastern Division Meeting, December 2012. Spinoza on Consciousness. The 6th Biennial Margaret Dauler Wilson Confer- ence, Dartmouth College, June 2012. It Does a Body Good: the Affects, Extension, and Freedom in Spinoza. Confer- ence on Spinoza's Ethics at Texas A & M, September 2011. Spinoza on Affect and Will. Invited lecture, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy, April 2010. Harmony and Discord in Spinoza's Social Model of the Mind. Colloquium Paper, APA Pacific Division Meeting, March 2008. A Spinozist Solution to the Problem of Weakness of Will. Sapientia Lecture Series, Dartmouth College, December 2007. Affects, Ideas, and Feelings in Spinoza's Psychology. Symposium Paper, Eastern APA Division Meeting, Dec. 2006. 2 of 4 Teaching Florida International University, Miami, FL USA Assistant Professor August 2014 to present Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA USA Assistant Professor September 2009 to July 2014 Introduction to Metaphysics and Epistemology Philosophy of Religion History of Modern Philosophy Teleporters and Time Travel: The Metaphysics Behind Science Fiction Seminar: Women of the Enlightenment Seminar: Spinoza, Mind, and Nature Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH USA Visiting Lecturer September 2007 to June 2009 Professional Activities Journal Referee History of Philosophy Quarterly Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Journal of the History of Philosophy British Journal for the History of Philosophy Hypatia Manuscript Reviewer Wiley-Blackwell Oxford University Press Harvard University Press Other activities Editor, Philpapers.org, Topic: Spinoza's Philosophy of Mind Fellow, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, 2013-14 Invited contributor, online scholarly community The Mod Squad: A Group Blog in Early Modern Philosophy. Organizer, APA Pacific Mini-conference on Spinoza's Psychology, 2008. Project Assistant, The 2004 NEH Institute for Early Modern Philosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy, Science and Theology in the 17th Century Member American Philosophical Association Society of Young Black Philosophers North American Spinoza Society Friends of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 3 of 4 Service Wellesley College College-wide 2010-13 Board of Admissions 2011- Faculty Ambassador to the Lacrosse team 2013 Participant in summer faculty seminar: \Last Books" 2012 Participant in summer faculty seminar: \Teaching with Books and Other Text-Technologies: Book History, the Book Arts, and Book Studies in the Wellesley Curriculum" 2011 Participant in a summer faculty seminar in the Albright Institute for Global Affairs: \Theories and Representations of the Coup d'Etat" Departmental 2012-13 Search committee for tenure-track hire 2012 Search committee for one-year hire 2012 Second reader on honors thesis of Hannah Allen 2012 Participated in Departmental Self-Study and External Review 2010-11 Search committee for tenure-track hire Languages German Advanced reading knowledge, intermediate speaking ability French Advanced reading knowledge, intermediate speaking ability Latin Advanced reading knowledge References Alison McIntyre Virginia Onderdonk 29 Professor of Philosophy Wellesley College Steve Nadler William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy University of Wisconsin-Madison Michael Della Rocca Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy Yale University Aaron Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University 4 of 4.
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