Mary Domski, Assistant Professor

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

RECENT, REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Editor, with Michael Dickson, of Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy of Science. Contracted and forthcoming with Open Court Press, October 2009.

“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

“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

“Locke and Kant on Synthesis and Imagination in Mathematics”
HOPOS, The International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science
Seventh Biennial Congress, 18-21 June 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia

“The God of Geometry, The God of Matter”
&HPS1: First Conference in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
11-13 October 2007, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

“Newton as Historically-Minded Philosopher”
“Newton and/as Philosophy” conference organized by Eric Schliesser
21-25 June 2007, Leiden University, The Netherlands

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

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 present)

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