Tad Schmaltz

Tad Schmaltz (* 1960) is Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

His historical research interests are mainly in late scholasticism and early modern philosophy. He has presented studies on René Descartes, Nicolas Malebranche and Spinoza. Research interests are V.A. Questions of philosophy of mind and metaphysics, especially scholastic causality and theories of freedom and early modern theories of self-consciousness.

Schmaltz received his Ph.D. 1988 Notre Dame, received there in 1989 as an assistant professor in 2003 and full professor and is currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts there. He is the editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

From summer 2010 Schmaltz has been working at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He returns to his hometown, where he led the St. Paul School visited in the 1970s.

Works ( selection)

  • Malebranche 's Theory of the Soul. Oxford University Press, New York 1996
  • Radical Cartesianism. Cambridge University Press, New York 2002.
  • Edited by Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti- Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe. Routledge, London, 2005.
  • With Hg. Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy, Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2003.
  • Descartes on Causation. Oxford University Press, New York 2008
  • Cartesian causation: body -body interaction, motion, and eternal truths. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Volume 34 /4, 2003, pp. 737-762.
  • The Cartesian Refutation of Idealism. In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Volume 10 /4, 2002, pp. 513-540.
  • What Has Cartesianism to do with Jansenism? . In: Journal of the History of Ideas. Volume 60 /1, 1999, pp. 37-56.
  • Spinoza 's Mediate Infinite Mode. In: Journal of the History of Philosophy. Volume 35 /2, 1997, pp. 199-235.
  • Human Freedom and Divine Creation in Malebranche, Descartes and the Cartesians. In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Volume 2/2, 1994, pp. 3-50.
  • Descartes and Malebranche on Mind and Mind- Body Union. In: Philosophical Review. Band 101/2, 1992, pp. 281-325.
  • Platonism and Descartes ' View of Immutable Essences. In: Archives for the History of Philosophy. Belt 73 /2, 1991, pp. 129-170.
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