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Kaufman, Daniel Patrick

Associate Professor

Positions

Associate Professor, Philosophy

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Professor Kaufman's research currently focuses on theories of matter, material objects, and individuation, and modality in 17th-century philosophy.

keywords

17th-century philosophy, especially ontology and metaphysics of matter and material objects, individuation, identity, and modality

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- Locke's Theory of Identity. 236-259. 2016
- The Resurrection of the Same Body and the Ontological Status of Organisms: What Locke Should Have (and Could Have) Told Stillingfleet 2008
journal article
- Divine Simplicity and the Eternal Truths: Descartes and the Scholastics. Philosophia (United States). 69-105. 2010
- Descartes on composites, incomplete substances, and kinds of unity. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 39-73. 2008
- Locke on individuation and the corpuscular basis of kinds. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 499-534. 2007
- Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas: Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities. 153-198. 2006
- God's immutability and the necessity of Descartes's eternal truths. Journal of the history of philosophy. 1-19. 2005
- Infimus gradus libertatis? Descartes on indifference and divine freedom. Religious Studies. 391-406. 2003

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2000
B.A., University of Connecticut 1993

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