Mary Domski

Mary Domski

Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Advisor

Department of Philosophy

University of New Mexico

Department of Philosophy

MSC 03 2140

1 University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Phone (no voicemail): (505) 277-4139

Fax: (505) 277-6362

Email : mdomski@unm.edu

Office: 531 Humanities

Office Hours (Spring 2008): T 9-10a, W 12:30-2p, and by appointment

The Sandia Mountains, as seen from my office

RESEARCH

Major Areas of Interest:

History of Modern Philosophy, Newtonian Science & the Scientific Revolution, Kant, Philosophy of Science

Other Areas of Interest:

Ancient and Modern Skepticism, Philosophy of Mathematics, Science and Religion

Some Current Projects

· I am co-editing a volume of essays with Michael Dickson of the University of South Carolina. The title of the collection is Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science (Open Court, forthcoming). The essays in this collection honor Michael Friedman’s work in the history and philosophy of science. Several of the contributors presented earlier versions of their papers at a workshop held at the University of South Carolina in October 2004. For the program and abstracts, click here.

· I am helping organize the fourth annual meeting of the Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. The meeting will take place 28 February - 1 March 2009 at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and the lead organizer this year is Gideon Manning. For more information on this event, including our call for papers, please visit the Seminar web site.

· I am the PI on a recently awarded $100,000 NSF grant that will support the Ethics Fellows Pilot Program. The main goal of the program is to train graduate students in Philosophy and Engineering to co-teach UNM's undergraduate Engineering Ethics course (ECE/ME/CE 409). More information about the program, including our call for applications, can be found on the Ethics Fellows web site. UNM's Office of Graduate Studies has featured my work on this program on their web site.

Some Recent (and Not-so-Recent) Conference Presentations

· I will be presenting some of my work on the role of the imagination in Kant's mathematics at the Seventh International Congress of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS). The meeting will take place 18-21 June 2008 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

· I recently presented some of my work on Descartes at the &HPS1 Conference (11-13 October 2007, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh). My thanks go to the organizers for putting together such a terrific event.

· I presented some of my work on Newton at Newton And/As Philosophy (21-25 June 2007, Leiden University, The Netherlands), a wonderful conference that was organized by Eric Schliesser of Leiden University.

· I presented part of my on-going work on Locke's relationship to Newton's natural philosophy at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS), which was held 1-5 November 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as at the Sixth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), which was held 14-18 June 2006 in Paris, France.

· I presented a paper at the Tenth International Kant Congress, which was held 4-9 September 2005 in São Paulo, Brazil. The title of my paper was “The Transcendental and the Geometrical: Kant’s argument for the Infinity of Space.” The paper will appear in the Congress proceedings, but if you'd rather not wait to read it, you can download a copy here.

For more on my research, you can download my current CV (pdf).