research overview
- Robert Pasnau works across the whole history of philosophy, from the ancient to the modern era. His principal focus is on medieval philosophy, particularly focusing on mind, knowledge, and metaphysics.
- Contact Info
Pasnau, Robert
Positions
- Professor, Classics
- Professor, Philosophy
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- The history of philosophy, theories of knowledge, metaphysics
Publications
selected publications
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book
- Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 2013
- The Cambridge history of medieval philosophy 2010
- The Philosophy Of Aquinas 2003
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The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts
2002
- The Treatise on Human Nature. Ed. Pasnau, Robert. 2002
- Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature 2002
- Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages 1997
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chapter
- A Lewisian History of Philosophy. 60-79. 2015
- Abstract Truths in Thomas Aquinas 2012
- Mind and Hylomorphism 2012
- Philosophy of Mind and Human Nature 2012
- Scholastic Qualities, Primary and Secondary 2011
- On Existing All at Once 2011
- Id quo cognoscimus. 131-149. 2008
- Mind and extension (Descartes, Hobbes, More). 283-310. 2007
- The Mind-Soul Problem 2007
- Human Nature 2003
- Cognition 2003
- Final Causes and Intentionality 2001
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Petri Iohannis Olivi Tractatus de Verbo.
Franciscan Studies.
121-133.
1993
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journal article
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Who killed the causality of things?.
Noûs.
771-795.
2025
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Medieval Engagement with Authorial Intention.
Journal of medieval and early modern studies.
519-543.
2023
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The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay.
Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
842-845.
2022
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Old Bad Attitudes.
Philosophers' Imprint.
1-25.
2022
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Bias and interpersonal skepticism.
Noûs.
154-175.
2022
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Therapeutic Reflections on Our Bipolar History of Perception.
Analytic Philosophy.
253-284.
2016
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Disagreement and the value of self-trust.
Philosophical Studies.
2315-2339.
2015
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Snatching Hope from the Jaws of Epistemic Defeat.
Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
2015
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Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge.
Mind.
623-626.
2015
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VEILED DISAGREEMENT.
Journal of Philosophy.
608-630.
2014
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On Metaphysical themes: replies to critics.
Philosophical Studies.
37-50.
2014
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Questions on the physics (Books I-VII).
Journal of the history of philosophy.
610-611.
2014
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Epistemology Idealized.
Mind.
987-1021.
2013
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MEDIEVAL SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY: SCIENTIA FOR MERE MORTALS.
Episteme.
23-41.
2010
- A SOTYL THINGE WITHOUTEN TONGE AND TEETH: SOUL'S DIALOGUE WITH BODY, AND LITERATURE'S DIALOGUE WITH PHILOSOPHY. English Language Notes. 135-145. 2009
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The event of color.
Philosophical Studies.
353-369.
2009
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Democritus and Secondary Qualities.
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.
2007
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A theory of secondary qualities.
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
568-591.
2006
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Aquinas.
Mind.
203-206.
2005
- Thomas Aquinas, 'On Evil'. Review of Metaphysics. 599-601. 2004
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Form, substance, and mechanism.
Philosophical Review.
31-88.
2004
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Souls and the beginning of life (A reply to Haldane and Lee).
Philosophy.
521-531.
2003
- Life's form: Late Aristotelian conceptions of the soul.. Philosophical Review. 308-310. 2003
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The physics of Duns Scotus: The scientific context of a theological vision.
Speculum.
1268-1270.
2002
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What is cognition? A reply to some critics (Understanding Thomas Aquinas' theory of cognition).
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
483-490.
2002
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The philosophy of William of Ockham in the light of its principles.
Journal of the history of philosophy.
590-591.
2000
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Plotting Augustine's Confessions.
Logos (United States).
77-106.
2000
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Sensible qualities: The case of sound (Philosophy).
Journal of the history of philosophy.
27-40.
2000
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What is sound?.
The Philosophical Quarterly.
309-324.
1999
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Justified until proven guilty: Alston's new epistemology.
Philosophical Studies.
1-33.
1993
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Who killed the causality of things?.
Noûs.
771-795.
2025
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Cornell University 1994
- M.A., Cornell University 1992
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania 1989
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Australia Country
- China Country
- Czech Republic Country
- Europe Continent
- Finland Country
- France Country
- Germany Country
- Morocco Country
- United Kingdom Country