Contact Information

Mary Domski, Associate Professor and Graduate Director


Humanities 531
MSC 03-2140
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Fax: 505.277.6362

E-mail: mdomski@unm.edu
See Also: Personal Website

 

Mary Domski, Associate Professor

  • B.A. (University of Pennsylvania '97)
  • M.S.Ed. (University of Pennsylvania '98)
  • M.A. (University of Leeds '99)
  • Ph.D. (Indiana University '03)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

RECENT, REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

(For a complete list of papers and talks, see the CV available on Prof. Domski’s personal website.)

"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. Open Court, 2010; ISBN: 978‑0‑8126‑9662‑2 (Reviewed by NDPR in April
2011).

Guest Editor of a special 50th anniversary issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy dedicated to the theme “Newton and Newtonianism.” This issue will appear in September 2012.

“Kant and Newton on the A Priori Necessity of Geometry.”
Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

“Newton and Proclus: Geometry, Imagination, and Knowing Space.”
Forthcoming in The Southern Journal of Philosophy, September 2012.

“Observation and Mathematics”
Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press), edited by Peter Anstey.

“Locke’s Qualified Embrace of Newton’s Principia” (2012)
In Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press), co-edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, pp. 48-68.

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

RECENT, REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS

“Newton and Proclus: Understanding the Geometry of Absolute Space.”
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 24 January 2012; Tenth International Congress of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), 21-24 June 2012, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

“Descartes, Newton, and the Mathematical Character of Natural Philosophy.” Workshop on “Knowledge, Representation, and Proof in the Modern Era,” Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, 3 November 2011; a previous version of this paper was delivered as a Dean’s lecture at St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, 22 October 2010.

“Difference, Disunity, and the Dialogue between Past and Present.” Philosophy and Its History: A Workshop on Methods, Aims, and New Directions in the Scholarship of Early Modern Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 29-30 October 2011

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)

Undergraduate Advisor for the UNM Philosophy Department (August 2005-August 2008, January 2010-December 2011)

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