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Gideon Manning
Curriculum Vitae: May 2015
Contact
1200 East California Blvd., MC 101-40
Pasadena, CA 91125
Email: [email protected]
Webpage: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~gmax/
Academic Positions
California Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
College of William and Mary
Assistant Professor
Instructor in Philosophy (tenure track)
University of Pittsburgh
Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Chicago
Instructor in Conceptual & Historical Foundations of Science
Instructor in Philosophy
Teaching Assistant
20072006-2007
Spring 2006
Fall 2004
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
2000-01
Education and Degrees
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
2014-2015
(Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “New Directions Fellowship”)
University of Chicago, Ph.D., Philosophy
1998-2006
Harvard University, A.B., Philosophy, magna cum laude
1994-1997
Macalester College
1992-1993
Areas of Special Competence
1. Metaphysics and Epistemology in the History and Philosophy of Medicine and the Sciences
2. Clinical and Theoretical Bioethics – including the history of bioethics and the scientific, cultural
and moral assumptions informing the concepts of health and death
3. Descartes and Cartesianism, Early Modern Philosophy of Mind and Body, History of Skepticism
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “New Directions Fellowship”, 2013-2016
Reeves Center International Travel Fellowship, College of William and Mary, 2007
Ames Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2004-2005
Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2003
University Scholarship, University of Chicago, 1998-2003
Publications
Edited Volumes:
21. Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period, ed. G. Manning (Springer:
New York) [contributors include: Peter Anstey, Sorana Corneanu, Karin Ekholm, Lisa Jardine,
Anita Guerrini, Felicity Henderson, Sarah Hutton, Rob Iliffe, Gideon Manning, Evan Ragland,
and Anna Marie Roos] – forthcoming
20. Medicine from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period: A Festschrift in Honor of Nancy Siraisi, eds. G.
Manning and C. Klestinec (Springer: New York) [contributors include: Nico Bertoloni Meli, Ann
Blair, Chiara Crisciani, Paula Findlin, Tony Grafton, Hiro Hirai, Danielle Jacquart, Ian Maclean,
Michael McVaugh, and Vivian Nutton] – forthcoming
19. Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy, ed. Gideon Manning (Brill: Leiden, 2012) –
[contributors include: Roger Ariew, Michael Edwards, Daniel Garber, Gary Hatfield, Hiro Hirai,
Gideon Manning, William R. Newman, Tad Schmaltz, and Justin E.H. Smith]
Journal Articles
18. “Descartes’ Metaphysical Biology” in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of
Philosophy of Science – in press
17. “Descartes and the Bologna Affair” in The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 47, 1, pp. 1-13,
March 2014
16. “The History of ‘Hylomorphism’” in the Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 74, 2, pp.173-187, April
2013
15. “Analogy and Falsification in Descartes’ Physics” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol.
43, 2, pp. 402-411, June 2012
14. “Descartes, Other Minds and Impossible Human Bodies” in Philosopher’s Imprint, Vol. 12, 16, pp. 124, November 2012
13. “Naturalism and Un-naturalism Among the Cartesian Physicians” in Inquiry, Vol. 51, No. 5,
pp.441-463, October 2008
Book Chapters
12. “Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition” in Health, ed. P. Adamson, Oxford
Philosophical Concepts: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of Major Concepts in the History of Philosophy
(Oxford University Press: Oxford) – forthcoming
11. “Directing the Mind While Preserving the Body: Tschirnhaus’ Medicina mentis et corporis” in
Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period, ed. G. Manning (Springer:
New York) – forthcoming
10. “Introduction” (with Cynthia Klestinec) in Medicine from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period: A
Festschrift in Honor of Nancy Siraisi, eds. G. Manning and C. Klestinec (Springer: New York) –
forthcoming
9. “Analogies” and “Extrinsic Denomination” in Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan (Cambridge
University Press: Cambridge, 2015) – forthcoming
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8. “Descartes’ Healthy Machines and the Human Exception” in The Mechanization of Natural
Philosophy, eds. S. Roux and D. Garber (Kluwer: New York, 2013), pp. 237-262
7. “When the Mind Became Un-natural: De La Forge and Psychology in the Cartesian Aftermath” in
Psychology and the Other Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction (1250-1750), eds. P.J.J.M.
Bakker, S. W. De Boer, and C. Leijenhorst (Brill: Leiden, 2012), pp. 131-156
6. “Three Biased Reminders about Hylomorphism in Early Modern Science and Philosophy” in
Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy, ed. G. Manning (Brill: Leiden, 2012), pp. 132
Reviews
5. “A new (old) anatomy.” Review with C. Klestinec of Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism,
Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy (Johns Hopkins University
Press: Baltimore), in Metascience, Volume 24, Issue 1, March 2015, pp. 65-69
4. Review with D. Bellis of Craig Martin, Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes (Johns
Hopkins University Press: Baltimore), in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the
History of Philosophy of Science, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, pp. 394-398
3. Review with M. Stan of Paul Hoffman, Essays on Descartes (Oxford University Press: Oxford), in
Mind, Volume 120, Number 478, April 2011, pp. 531-533
2. “Walter Charleton, Physician Extraordinaire.” Review of Emily Booth, ‘A Subtle and Mysterious
Machine’: The Medical World of Walter Charleton (1619-1707), in History of Universities, Volume
XXV/1, October 2010, pp. 185-194
1. “Out on the Limb: The Place of Medicine in Descartes’ Philosophy.” Review of Vincent Aucante,
La philosophie médicale de Descartes, in Early Science and Medicine, Volume 12, Number 2, 2007, pp.
214-222
Work in Progress
a. “Cartesian Biology and Medicine” – commissioned for The Cartesian Mind, ed. J. Secada and C.
Wee (Routledge: New York)
b. “L’Homme in 20th-Century Science, Medicine, and Philosophy” – commissioned for a volume on
L’Homme’s reception, ed. S. Gaukroger and D. Antoine-Mahut (Springer: New York)
c. “Descartes’ Union: Could We Just be Straddling Modes” – full draft available
d. “Descartes’ Mechanism and Biological Functions” – full draft available
e. “How Descartes’ Medicine Made the Scientific Revolution”
f. “The Vitality and Importance of Early Modern Galenism”
g. Death Then and Now – A manuscript addressing philosophical and historical perspectives on death,
from antiquity to the present
h. Powers, ed. G. Manning, a volume in the series Oxford Philosophical Concepts: A Philosophical and
Historical Analysis of Major Concepts in the History of Philosophy (Oxford University Press: Oxford)
i.
Barefoot and Scrubbed In – A manuscript discussing the educational experiences of a first-year
medical student
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Lectures and Presentations
(Note: A “+” indicates the talk was invited. An “*” indicates the talk was refereed.)
+ 39. “TBD.” A paper to be presented at the Institute for Research in the Humanities workshop “The Book
That Made Philosophy Modern: Descartes’s Treatise on Man, Philosophical, Scientific, and Art
Historical Perspectives,” University of Wisconsin, Madison. April 2016.
+ 38. “The Vitality and Importance of Early Modern Galenism.” A paper to be presented at the Unit
for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. September 2015.
+ 37. “Case Histories, Standardization and the Historical Significance of Plague.” A lecture given at the
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California as part of its third-year Arts
and Humanities elective. April 2015.
+ 36. “A Spoonful of Medicine Helps the History of Philosophy Go Down.” A paper presented at
“Garberfest,” a conference honoring Daniel Garber on the occasion of his 65th birthday,
Princeton University. September 2014
+ 35. “Directing the Mind While Preserving the Body: Tschirnhaus’ Medicina Mentis et Corporis.” A paper
presented at the bi-annual Bacon Conference at Caltech, Pasadena. May 2014
*
34. “Descartes’ Ontology of Natures.” A paper presented at the 2014 meeting of the New York City
Early Modern Workshop, Fordham University, NYC. May 2014
+ 33. “On Richard Serjeantson’s ‘Descartes Before Dualism?: An Unknown Manuscript Draft of the
Rules for the Direction of the Mind.’” Comments presented at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies
Institute conference “Worlds of Learning: Early Modern Debates Over Taxonomies,” Caltech,
Pasadena. October 2013
+ 32. “Descartes’ Ontology of Relations.” A paper presented at the Scientia Workshop at the University
of California at Irvine. May 2013
+ 31. “Descartes’ Philosophy of Medicine.” A guest lecture presented in the seminar Early Modern
Philosophies of Science, Princeton University. February 2013
+ 30. “Health in the Early Modern Philosophical Tradition.” A paper presented at the Workshop on
Health, King’s College London, London. February 2013
+ 29. “Galen in the Seventeenth Century.” A paper presented at the Workshop on Early Modern Medicine
and Natural Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. November 2012
+ 28. “Doctor Descartes: Resurrecting a Medical Philosophy.” A paper presented at Cambridge
University, Cambridge. December 2011
+ 27. “Doctor Descartes: Resurrecting a Medical Philosophy.” A paper presented at The Warburg
Institute, London. December 2011
+ 26. “How Descartes’ Medicine Made the Scientific Revolution.” A paper presented at The Life Sciences
in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, Princeton University. May 2011
+ 25. “On Anstey’s ‘Origins of the Experimental/Speculative Distinction.’” Comments presented at
the Marsden-funded research project Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism, University
of Otago, New Zealand. April 2011
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+ 24. “Descartes’ Union: Could We Just Be Straddling Modes?” A paper presented at the Workshop on
Descartes, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney. April 2011
+ 23. “How Descartes’ Medicine Made the Scientific Revolution.” A paper presented at the Unit for
History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney. April 2011
+ 22. “Descartes the Medical Philosopher.” A paper presented at Miami University of Ohio. April
2011
+ 21. “Descartes the Medical Philosopher.” A paper presented at the New York Academy of Science,
NYU, New York City. March 2011
*
20. “Connecting the Roots and the Branches: Metaphysics and Medicine in Descartes’ Philosophy.”
A paper presented at the 2010 meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of
Science Conference, Budapest, Hungary. June 2010
+ 19. “Analogies as Cartesian Evidence.” A paper presented at the Mellon Conference: Temper of Evidence,
Caltech, Pasadena. May 2010
+ 18. “Descartes’ Genetic Answer to the Other Minds Skeptic.” A paper presented at the Southern
California Philosophy Conference, Claremont Colleges, Claremont. November, 2009
+ 17. “Why Medicine Mattered to René Descartes and Why It Should Matter to Historians of Science
and Philosophy.” A paper presented as a Pybus Seminar, Newcastle University, Newcastle.
October, 2009
*
16. “Could Descartes’ Body Be A ‘Straddling Mode’?” A paper presented at the Oxford Seminar in
Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University, Oxford. October, 2009
+ 15. “Philosophy Needs Medicine: Historiography, Descartes, and Other Minds Skepticism.” A paper
presented at the Montreal Interuniversity Workshop in the History of Philosophy, McGill University,
Montréal. March, 2009
*
14. “Descartes’ Medical Debts.” A paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the Renaissance Society of
America, Los Angeles. March, 2009
*
13. “Could Descartes’ Body Be A ‘Straddling Mode’?” A paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Seminar in
Early Modern Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. January, 2009
+ 12. “Cartesian Anthropocentrism.” A paper presented at the workshop Discovering Life sponsored by
the Program in the History of Science, Princeton University. February 2008
+ 11. “Naturalism and Un-naturalism Among the Cartesian physicians.” A paper presented at the South
East Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa. November 2007
+ 10. “When the Mind Became Un-natural: La Forge and Psychology in the Cartesian Aftermath.” A
paper presented at the workshop Psychology and the Other Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary
Interaction (1250-1750), part of the European Science Foundation program “From Natural
Philosophy to Science,” Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen. May 2007
+ 9. “Experimenting with Experiment: Descartes’ Medicine in the 1630s.” A paper presented at the
Department of History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium Series, Indiana University,
Bloomington. April 2007
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+ 8. “Teleology and Life in Descartes.” A lecture given at the Descartes Seminar, Princeton University.
April 2007
+ 7. “Naturalism and Un-naturalism Among the Cartesian Physicians.” A paper presented at the
workshop Naturalism in Modern Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia. March 2007
*
6. “What the Problem of Other Minds Really Tells Us About Descartes.” A paper presented at the
Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of California at San Diego, San Diego.
February 2007
+ 5. “Philosophy Needs Medicine: Historiography, Descartes, and Other Minds Skepticism.” A paper
presented as a William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena. January 2007
+ 4. “What the Problem of Other Minds Really Tells Us About Descartes (and the History of
Philosophy).” A paper presented at the Early Modern Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago.
October 2006
+ 3. “Making Biology: What Goes Into a Discipline?” A paper presented at the Monroe Scholars Lunch
Series, Charles Center, College Of William and Mary, Williamsburg. March 2006
*
2. “Descartes’ Philosophy of Biology.” A paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Graduate Seminar in
Early Modern Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. November 2003
*
1.
“L'étude cartésienne du vivant / Descartes’ Study of the Living World.” A paper presented at the
joint meeting of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi su Descartes, Centre D’Etudes
Cartesiennes, and the Midwest Seminar in the History of Modern Philosophy. December 2002
Teaching
as Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, Humanities Division
Bioethics
Advanced
Renaissance Anatomy and Botany
Advanced
Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Advanced
Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Advanced
Medieval Philosophy
Advanced
History of Early Modern Philosophy
Advanced
Knowledge and Reality
Introductory
2016
2016
2009-Present
2009-Present
2009
2008
2007-Present
as Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, Department of Philosophy
Descartes and Spinoza
17th and 18th Century Philosophy
Medieval Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Introductory
2006
2006-2007
2007
2006-2007
as Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Philosophy
Empiricism
Advanced
2004
as Instructor, University of Chicago, Department of Philosophy
Descartes’ Le Monde
Persons, Bodies, and Minds
Advanced
Advanced
2004
2003
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Professional Service
Associate Editor, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 5-year
term, 2015-2020
Referee for National Science Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Studies in History and Philosophy of the
Biomedical Sciences, Perspectives on Science, Annals of Science, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Early
Modern Studies, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press
Steering Committee and Publications Committee, International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science,
3-year terms, 2013-2016
Program committee, International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Conference, Halifax,
Newfoundland 2012
Co-Founder and co-director of the Early Modern Circle, 2010-Present (see www.emc.hss.caltech.edu)
Conference organizer, Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Caltech, 2009
Miscellaneous administrative responsibilities at the College of William and Mary and Caltech – e.g.,
multiple search committees, option representative, reappointment committees, etc.
References
History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Roger Ariew. Professor & Department Chair. Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida.
[email protected]
Daniel Garber. Stuart Professor of Philosophy. Department of Philosophy, Princeton University.
[email protected] – PhD supervisor
Christia Mercer. Gustave M. Berne Professor. Department of Philosophy, Columbia University.
[email protected]
Steven Nadler. William H. Hay II Professor and Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities. Department
of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. [email protected]
Tad M. Schmaltz. Professor. Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
[email protected]
Alison Simmons. Harvard College Professor and Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy.
Department of Philosophy. Harvard University. [email protected]
History of Science and Medicine
Jed Buchwald. Dorris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History. The Division of the Humanities and
Social Sciences. California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, CA. [email protected]
Harold Cook. John F. Nickoll Professor of History. Department of History. Brown University.
Providence, RI. [email protected]
Rob Iliffe. Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science. Department of History. University
of Sussex. Brighton, UK. [email protected]
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Nancy Siraisi. Distinguished Professor Emerita in History at Hunter College and City University of
New York. [email protected]
Clinical Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
Desiree Lee, MD, MSED. Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Director of Professionalism in the
Practice of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
[email protected]
Pamela Schaff, MD. Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Family Medicine, Associate Dean
for Curriculum, and Director of the Program in Medical Humanities, Arts and Ethics at the Keck
School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. [email protected]
Robert J. Wallace, MD, MBA. Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
and Past Director, Professionalism in the Practice of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of
the University of Southern California. [email protected]
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