Professor Deborah Brown
Professor in Philosophy
+61 7 336 52804
Room E313, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Publications
Books
Brown, Deborah J. and Normore, Calvin G. (2019). Descartes and the ontology of everyday life. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198836810.001.0001
Brown, D. J. (2006). Descartes and the Passionate Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511554513
Book Chapters
Brown, Deborah (2021). Agency, force, and inertia in Descartes and Hobbes. Reconsidering causal powers: historical and conceptual perspectives. (pp. 94-120) edited by Henrik Lagerlund, Benjamin Hill and Stathis Psillos. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198869528.003.0005
Brown, Deborah and Key, Brian (2020). Descartes’ dualism of mind and body in the development of psychological thought. Oxford research encyclopedia of psychology. (pp. 1-22) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.486
Brown, Deborah (2019). The metaphysics of Cartesian persons. Mindy, body, and morality: new perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza. (pp. 17-36) edited by Martina Reuter and Frans Svensson. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Brown, Deborah (2019). The metaphysics of Cartesian persons. Mindy, body, and morality: new perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza. (pp. 17-36) edited by Martina Reuter and Frans Svensson. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351202831-2
Brown, Deborah J. (2018). Animal souls and beast machines: Descartes’s mechanical biology. Animals: a history. (pp. 187-209) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780199375967.003.0013
Brown, Deborah (2017). Power and passion in Hobbes, Descartes and Spinoza. The Routledge companion to seventeenth century philosophy. (pp. 334-353) edited by Dan Kaufman. New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315771960-12
Brown, Deborah (2016). Being, formal versus objective. The Cambridge Descartes lexicon. (pp. 60-65) edited by Lawrence Nolan. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511894695.027
Brown, Deborah (2016). Passion. The Cambridge Descartes lexicon. (pp. 563-569) edited by Lawrence Nolan. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511894695.192
Normore, Calvin G. and Brown, Deborah J. (2014). On bits and pieces in the history of philosophy. Composition as identity. (pp. 24-43) edited by Cotnoir, A. J. and Baxter, Donald L. M.. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Brown, Deborah (2014). The Sixth Meditation: Descartes and the embodied self. The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations. (pp. 240-257) edited by David Cunning. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139088220.013
Brown, Deborah (2013). Understanding interaction revisited. Debates in modern philosophy: essential readings and contemporary responses. (pp. 54-63) edited by Stewart Duncan and Antonia LoLordo. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Brown, Deborah (2013). Descartes and content skepticism. Descartes' Meditations: a critical guide. (pp. 25-42) edited by Karen Detlefsen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139030731.005
Brown, Deborah (2012). Agency and attention in Malebranche's Theory of Cognition. Emotion and cognitive life in medieval and early modern philosophy. (pp. 217-233) edited by Martin Pickavé and Lisa Shapiro. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579914.003.0012
Brown, Deborah J. (2008). Descartes on True and False Ideas. A Companion to Descartes. (pp. 196-215) edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero. Carlton VIC, Australia: Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1002/9780470696439.ch12
Brown, D. J. (2007). Objective being in Descartes: that which we know or that by which we know?. Representation and objects of thought in medieval philosophy. (pp. 135-153) edited by Henrik Lagerlund. Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Brown, D. J. (2007). Is Descartes' Body a Mode of Mind?. Forming The Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment. (pp. 263-281) edited by Henrik Lagerlund and Olaf Pluta. The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6084-7_13
Brown, D. J. (2007). Augustine And Descartes On The Function Of Attention In Perceptual Awareness. Consciousness: From Perception To Reflection In The History of Philosophy. (pp. 153-175) edited by S. Heniämaa, V. Läthennemaki and P. Remes. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6082-3_7
Brown, D. J. and de Sousa, R (2003). Descartes on the unity of the self and the passions. Passion and Virtue in Descartes. (pp. 153-173) edited by Williston, Byron, Gombay and Andre. United States: Humanity Books.
Brown, D. J. and Normore, C. (2003). Traces of the body: Cartesian passions. Passion and Virtue in Descartes. (pp. 83-106) edited by Williston, Byron, Gombay and Andre. United States: Humanity Books.
Brown, D. J. (2002). The Rationality of Cartesian Passions. Emotions and Choice from Boethius to Descartes. (pp. 233-251) edited by Henrik Lagerlund and Mikko Yrjönsuuri. Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. doi: 10.1007/978-94-010-0506-7_11
Brown, Deborah (1997). The right method of boy-loving. Love analyzed. (pp. 49-63) edited by Roger E. Lamb. Boulder, CO, United States: Westview Press.
Journal Articles
Key, Brian, Zalucki, Oressia and Brown, Deborah J. (2021). Neural design principles for subjective experience: implications for insects. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15 658037, 1-20. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.658037
Hegazy, Hind, Ellerton, Peter, Campos-Remon, Hannah, Zaphir, Luke, Mazzola, Claudio and Brown, Deborah (2021). Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research. Educational Action Research, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1877757
Brown, Deborah J. and Key, Brian (2021). Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?. Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-020-02961-0
Brown, Deborah and Key, Brian (2021). Plant sentience, semantics, and the emergentist dilemma. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 28 (1-2), 155-183.
Mazzola, Claudio, Kinkead, David, Ellerton, Peter and Brown, Deborah (2020). Reichenbachian common cause clusters. Erkenntnis. doi: 10.1007/s10670-020-00269-6
Kinkead, Dave, Brown, Deborah, Ellerton, Peter and Mazzola, Claudio (2019). Reasons: a digital argument mapping library for modern browsers. Journal of Open Source Software, 4 (37), 1044. doi: 10.21105/joss.01044
Brown, Deborah (2019). Women and Liberty, 1600-1800: Philosophical Essays. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 97 (3), 1-1. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2018.1561734
Key, Brian and Brown, Deborah (2018). Designing brains for pain: human to mollusc. Frontiers in Physiology, 9 (AUG) 1027, 1027. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01027
Brown, Deborah (2015). Animal automatism and machine intelligence. Res Philosophica, 92 (1), 93-115. doi: 10.11612/resphil.2015.92.1.2
Brown, Deborah J. (2012). Cartesian functional analysis. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90 (1), 75-92. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2011.566274
Brown, Deborah (2011). The duck's leg: Descartes's intermediate distinction. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 35 (1), 26-45. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4975.2011.00215.x
Brown, Deborah J. (2010). Cartesian reflections: essays on Descartes’s philosophy. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 88 (4), 731-734. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2010.481676
Brown, Deborah (2008). Gary Steiner. Descartes as a moral thinker: Christianity, technology, nihilism. JHP Book Series. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2004. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 46 (1), 173-175. doi: 10.5840/ipq200747162
Brown, D. J. (2007). Review of "Descartes Reinvented" - by Tom Sorell. Philosophical Books, 48 (4), 357-359. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0149.2007.00453_1.x
Brown, Deborah (2005). What part of 'know' don't you understand?. The Monist, 88 (1), 11-35. doi: 10.5840/monist20058813
Brown, D. J. (2002). Thomas Aquinas, Saint and Private Investigator. Dialogue, XLI (3), 461-480. doi: 10.1017/S0012217300005229
Brown, D. J. (2001). Aquinas' missing flying man. Sophia, 40 (1), 17-31. doi: 10.1007/BF02894576
Brown, D. J. (2000). Immanence and individuation. The Monist, 83 (1), 22-46. doi: 10.5840/monist20008314
Brown, D. J. (1999). What was new in the Passions of 1649?. Philosophica Fennica, 64, 211-231.
Brown, Deborah J. (1997). Analyticity: an Ockhamist approach. American Philosophical Quarterly, 34 (4), 443-457.
Brown, Deborah (1997). About love: reinventing romance for our times. Dialogue, 36 (2), 430-435. doi: 10.1017/S0012217300009677
Brown, Deborah (1996). A furry tile about mental representation. The Philosophical Quarterly, 46 (185), 448-466.
Brown, Deborah (1996). The puzzle of names in Ockham’s theory of mental language. The Review of Metaphysics, 50 (1), 79-99.
Brown, Deborah (1993). Swampman of La Mancha. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 23 (3), 327-347.
Conference Paper
Brown, Deborah (2012). Hume and the nominalist tradition. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. doi: 10.1080/00455091.2012.972125
Newspaper Article
Brown, Deborah and Key, Brian (2019, 04 23). You look but do not find: why the absence of evidence can be a useful thing The Conversation
Dataset Collection
Lodge, Jason, Pezaro, Charlotte, Brown, Deborah, Kent, Kirsty, Corbett, Brooklyn and Ellerton, Peter (2019). Detailed list of studies identified in systematic review of published research examining the critical thinking of higher education students. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.964