Faculty of the Department
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Professor
Alison Simmons
Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy
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| Emerson 315 |
| 617-495-0516 |
| asimmons@fas.harvard.edu |
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Alison Simmons received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. The bulk of her teaching is in early modern philosophy, natural philosophy, and theories of mind. She also has teaching interests, however, in medieval philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology.
Her research interests lie primarily at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. She works on questions about the nature of mind in general, the nature of sense perception in particular, and conceptions of the relation between mind and world as they have developed historically from the ancient through the medieval and early modern periods, and also as it is discussed today. Her recent publications include:
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“Sensation in the Malebranchean Mind,” Topics in Early Modern Theories of Mind, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mind 9, edited by Jon Miller (Springer Press, 2009): 105-129.
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“Guarding the Body: A Cartesian Phenomenology of Perception,” Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell, edited by Paul Hoffman and Gideon Yaffe (Broadview Press, 2008), 81-113.
- "Spatial Perception from a Cartesian Point of View" Philosophical Topics 31, 395-423 (2003)
- "Descartes on the Cognitive Structure of Sensory Experience," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 67(3), 549-579 (2003)
- "Changing the Cartesian Mind: Leibniz on Sensation, Representation and Consciousness," The Philosophical Review 110 (2001)
- "Sensible Ends" Latent Teleology in Descartes' Account of Sensation," Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2001)
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