Professor Deborah Brown
Professor in Philosophy
+61 7 336 52804
Room E313, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Publications
Book
Brown, D. J. Descartes and the Passionate Mind. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511554513
Book Chapters
Brown, Deborah (2019). The metaphysics of Cartesian persons. In Martina Reuter and Frans Svensson (Ed.), Mindy, body, and morality: new perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza (pp. 17-36) New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351202831-2
Brown, Deborah J. (2018). Animal souls and beast machines: Descartes’s mechanical biology. In 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. In Dan Kaufman (Ed.), The Routledge companion to seventeenth century philosophy (pp. 334-353) New York, NY, United States: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315771960-12
Brown, Deborah (2016). Objective being in Descartes: That Which We Know or That By Which We Know?. In Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy (pp. 134-153) : Taylor and Francis.
Brown, Deborah (2016). Passion. In Lawrence Nolan (Ed.), The Cambridge Descartes lexicon (pp. 563-569) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511894695.192
Brown, Deborah (2016). Being, formal versus objective. In Lawrence Nolan (Ed.), The Cambridge Descartes lexicon (pp. 60-65) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511894695.027
Normore, Calvin G. and Brown, Deborah J. (2014). On bits and pieces in the history of philosophy. In Cotnoir, A. J. and Baxter, Donald L. M. (Ed.), Composition as identity (pp. 24-43) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
Brown, Deborah (2014). The Sixth Meditation: Descartes and the embodied self. In David Cunning (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations (pp. 240-257) Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCO9781139088220.013
Brown, Deborah (2013). Understanding interaction revisited. In Stewart Duncan and Antonia LoLordo (Ed.), Debates in modern philosophy: essential readings and contemporary responses (pp. 54-63) New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Brown, Deborah (2013). Descartes and content skepticism. In Karen Detlefsen (Ed.), Descartes' Meditations: a critical guide (pp. 25-42) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139030731.005
Brown, Deborah (2012). Agency and attention in Malebranche's Theory of Cognition. In Martin Pickavé and Lisa Shapiro (Ed.), Emotion and cognitive life in medieval and early modern philosophy (pp. 217-233) Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579914.003.0012
Brown, Deborah J. (2008). Descartes on True and False Ideas. In Janet Broughton and John Carriero (Ed.), A Companion to Descartes (pp. 196-215) Carlton VIC, Australia: Blackwell Publishing. doi:10.1002/9780470696439.ch12
Brown, D. J. (2007). Is Descartes' Body a Mode of Mind?. In Henrik Lagerlund and Olaf Pluta (Ed.), Forming The Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment (pp. 263-281) The Netherlands: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6084-7_13
Brown, D. J. (2007). Objective being in Descartes: that which we know or that by which we know?. In Henrik Lagerlund (Ed.), Representation and objects of thought in medieval philosophy (pp. 135-153) Hampshire, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Brown, D. J. (2007). Augustine And Descartes On The Function Of Attention In Perceptual Awareness. In S. Heniämaa, V. Läthennemaki and P. Remes (Ed.), Consciousness: From Perception To Reflection In The History of Philosophy (pp. 153-175) 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. In Williston, Byron, Gombay and Andre (Ed.), Passion and Virtue in Descartes 1 ed. (pp. 153-173) United States: Humanity Books.
Brown, D. J. and Normore, C. (2003). Traces of the body: Cartesian passions. In Williston, Byron, Gombay and Andre (Ed.), Passion and Virtue in Descartes 1 ed. (pp. 83-106) United States: Humanity Books.
Brown, D. J. (2002). The Rationality of Cartesian Passions. In Henrik Lagerlund and Mikko Yrjönsuuri (Ed.), Emotions and Choice from Boethius to Descartes (pp. 233-251) Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-0506-7_11
Brown, Deborah (1997). The right method of boy-loving. In Roger E. Lamb (Ed.), Love analyzed (pp. 49-63) Boulder, CO, United States: Westview Press.
Journal Articles
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, . 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. 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.
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.
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. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 42 Supplement 1: 27-44. doi:10.1080/00455091.2012.972125
Newspaper Article
Brown, Deborah and Key, Brian (2019, April 23). You look but do not find: why the absence of evidence can be a useful thing. The Conversation, .