Mary Domski, Associate Professor

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of Early Modern Philosophy, Newtonian Science and the Scientific Revolution, Kant, Philosophy of Science

RECENT, REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

"Professor Domski's research was recently recognized on the New APPS blog."

Editor, with Michael Dickson, of Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science. ISBN: 978‑0‑8126‑9662‑2 (Reviewed by NDPR in April
2011).

“Locke’s Qualified Embrace of Newton’s Principia”
Forthcoming in Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press), co-edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser.

“The Intelligibility of Motion and Construction: Descartes’ Early Mathematics and Metaphysics, 1619-1637.”
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2009) 40: 119-130.

“The Transcendental and the Geometrical: Kant’s argument for the Infinity of Space”
Law and Peace in Kant’s Philosophy: Proceedings of the Tenth International Kant Congress (Walter de Gruyter: Berlin, Nov 2008), Volume 2: 149-160.

“Construction without Spatial Constraints: A Reply to Emily Carson” (2006)
Locke Studies: An Annual Journal of Locke Research 6: 85-99.

“The Constructible and Intelligible in Newton’s Philosophy of Geometry” (2003)
Philosophy of Science 70 (5): 1114-1124.

RECENT, REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS

"Unity as Natural, Reason as Divine: The Beauty of Systems in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy"
Keynote Address for the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division Meeting, 9‑11 July 2010, St.
Francis Hotel, Santa Fe, NM.

"The Mathematics and Metaphysics of Descartes' Mature Philosophy"
Eighth International Congress of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS),
24‑27 June 2010, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

"Newton's Empiricism in Cartesian Context: Revisiting the Argument for Space in De Gravitatione"
Newton and Empiricism Conference, 10‑11 April 2010, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.

“Locke’s Qualified Embrace of Newton’s Principia”
SPAWN 2009: Nature and Purpose in Early Modern Philosophy, 9-12 August 2009, Syracuse, NY

“The Dynamical Interplay of Mathematics and Metaphysics in Descartes’ Corpus”
Duke University, Department of Philosophy, 4 April 2009

“Kant on Imagination and Geometrical Certainty”
Workshop on Geometrical Thinking, Sponsored by the Ideals of Proof Project directed by Michael Detlefsen, 15-16 December 2008, Nancy, France

TEACHING INTERESTS

Undergraduate courses: I regularly teach Introduction to Philosophy, Descartes to Kant, Philosophy of Science

Graduate courses: I have taught graduate seminars on Descartes, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and Seventeenth Century Math and Metaphysics

RECENT TEACHING AWARDS

2011 UNM Alumni Association's Faculty Teaching Award

2009 Award for Teaching Excellence from UNM's College of Arts & Sciences

UNM's 2006-2007 Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award

PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY INTERESTS

Member of the Steering Committee for HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (Jan 2009 to present)

Graduate Placement Director for the UNM Philosophy Department (Aug 2008 to January 2010)

Outcomes Assessment Coordinator for the UNM Philosophy Department (March 2008 to present)