Research in History of Philosophy
Research in the history of philosophy does more than simply set the record straight on who said or thought what and when. Philosophers writing on the history of philosophy often bring past perspectives to bear on present issues. We can sometimes also become aware that our contemporary philosophical problems are neither inevitable nor natural by seeing how earlier philosophers saw them as non-problems.
Recent research grants by Monash philosophers that pertain to the history of philosophy:
A History of Australasian Philosophy. Graham Oppy, Nick Trakakis, Lynda Burns and Fiona Leigh, ARC Discovery Project 2006-9.
The political thought of European women. Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad, ARC Discovery Grant 2004-6 ($257,000)
Beastly Thoughts: ancient and modern views on animal minds. Monima Chadha, Fiona Leigh John Bigelow, Dirk Baltzly, Aubrey Townsend. Monash Arts Faculty Research Initiatives, 2003.
Peace, Politics and Love: Christine de Pizan and the political thought of medieval women. Karen Green and Constant Mews (History), ARC Discovery Grant 2002-04 ($138,000)
Re-thinking Mind and Body: cross cultural and historical perspectives on mind-body problems. Monima Chadha, Dirk Baltzly, John Bigelow, Jay Garfield (Smith College), John Heil (Davidson College). Monash Research Fund, 2003.
Mindful Things: cross cultural perspectives on the criteria for intelligence. Dirk Baltzly, John Bigelow, Monima Chadha, Jay Garfield (Smith College), John Heil (Davidson College). ARC Discovery Grant 2002 ($50,000).
Proclus' interpretation of the philosophy of Plato. Dirk Baltzly, Harold Tarrant (Newcastle) and David Runia (Uni Melbourne), ARC Large Grant 2000-2003 ($103,000)
Three Studies in Ancient Greek Pantheism and Panpsychism. Dirk Baltzly, Monash Small Grants 2002.
Recent publications by Monash philosophers in the history of philosophy:
In 2007:
Dirk Baltzly, Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
... the rest of the School's 2007 publications will be added here shortly ...
In 2006:
Dirk Baltzly, "Pathways to Purification: the cathartic virtues in the Neoplatonic commentary tradition' in Reading Plato in Antiquity, H Tarrant and D Baltzly (eds.), Duckworth, 2006.
Jacqueline Broad, "A Woman's Influence? John Locke and Damaris Masham on Moral Accountability', Journal of the History of Ideas 67:3 (2006), 489-510.
Jacqueline Broad, "Astell, Cartesian Ethics, and the Critique of Custom' in Mary Astell: Reason, Gender and Faith, (eds.) William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson. Aldershot : Ashgate, in press. pp. 165-179.
Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad (eds.), Virtue, Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, Amsterdam: Springer, in press.
Karen Green, 'A Pinch of Salt for Frege', Synthese 150 (2006) pp.209-228.
Karen Green, 'Isabeau de Bavière and the Political Philosophy of Christine de Pizan', Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques 32 (2006) pp. 247-72.
Karen Green, 'Phronesis feminized, Prudence from Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth 1' in Virtue, Liberty and Toleration: Political Ideas of European Women, 1400-1800, (eds.) Jacqueline Broad and Karen Green, Amsterdam: Springer, in press.
Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad, 'Fictions of a Feminine Philosophical Persona (or Philosophia Lost)' in The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity, (eds.) Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger and Ian Hunter, Ideas in Context series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006. pp. 229-253.
Edward Khamara,Space, Time, and Theology in the Leibniz-Newton Controversy. Frankfurt : Ontos-Verlag, 2006.
In 2005:
Karen Green, 'On Translating Christine de Pizan as a Philosopher' in Healing The Body Politic: the Political Thought of Christine de Pizan, Turnhout: Brepolis, 2005.
Karen Green, 'Philosophy and Metaphor: the significance of Christine's Blunders', Parergon 22:1 (2005). pp.119-136.
Daniel Russell, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life, Oxford: OUP, 2005.
In 2004:
Dirk Baltzly, "The Virtues and 'Becoming like God': Alcinous to Proclus', Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 26 (2004), 297–322.
Dirk Baltzly, "Knowing freedom: Epicurean philosophy beyond atomism and the swerve', co-authored with Lisa Wendlandt, Phronesis 49 (2004), 41–71.
Dirk Baltzly, "Melissus and the pluralists', Diotima 32 (2004), 32–46.
In 2003:
Dirk Baltzly, "Stoic pantheism', Sophia 42:2 (2003), 3–33.
Jacqueline Broad, 'Adversaries or Allies? Occasional Thoughts on the Masham-Astell Exchange', Eighteenth Century Thought 1:1 (2003), 123-149.
In 2002:
Jacqueline Broad, Women Philosophers of the 17th Century, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Dirk Baltzly, 'What goes up: Proclus against Aristotle on the 5th element', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80:3 (2002), 261-287.
Timothy Gaden, 'Chosen as a peculiar people: Christian traditions and Hellenistic philosophy', Colliquium 34:1 (2002), 35-48.
Timothy Gaden, 'Looking to God for Healing: A Rereading of the second Letter of Clement', Pacifica 15 (2002), 154-173.
In 2001:
Dirk Baltzly, Dougal Blyth and Harold Tarrant (eds), Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices, supplementary volume of Prudentia 2001.
Dirk Baltzly, 'Adunamic Hedonism' in Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices, supplementary volume of Prudentia 2001.
Fiona Leigh, 'Living as Loving: Plato on Eros' in Power and Pleasure, Virtues and Vices, supplementary volume of Prudentia 2001.