Dr Paul McDonald
Research
Phenomenology and Existentialism
17th Century Metaphysics
Ancient Theories of Mind and SoulPublications
Books
Descartes and Husserl: The Philosophical Project of Radical Beginnings. SUNY Press, 2000
(Editor) The Existentialist Reader: An Anthology of Key Texts. Routledge, 2001
History of the Concept of Mind vol. 1: Speculations about Soul, Mind and Spirit from Homer to Hume. Ashgate, 2003
History of the Concept of Mind vol. 2: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition. Ashgate, 2006
(Editor) Kenelm Digby’s Two Treatises: of Bodies and of Man’s Soul. E. J. Brill, 2009
Journal Articles (recent only)
“Phenomenological Factors in Vygotsky’s Mature Psychology”, in J. Hist Human Sciences, vol. 13, no. 3. (Aug. 2000)
“Husserl’s Preemptive Responses to Existentialist Critiques”, in Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, vol. 1 (Fall 2001)
“Current Approaches to Phenomenology”, in Inquiry vol. 44, no.1 (Apr. 2001)
“Descartes - The Lost Episodes”, in J. Hist. Phil, vol. 40, no. 4 (Oct. 2002)
“Husserl and the Cubists on a Thing in Space”, in J. Brit. Soc. Phen. vol. 36, no. 3 (Oct. 2005)
“Palaeo-Philosophy: Complex and Concept in Archaic Patterns of Thought” in Cosmos and History, vol. 1 no.2 (Nov. 2005)
“Husserl against Heidegger against Husserl”, in P. D. Ashworth & Man Chung (Eds.) Phenomenology and Psychological Science. NY & London: Springer, 2006.
“Francis Bacon’s Behavioral Psychology”, in J. Hist. Behavioral Sciences, vol. 43 (Sum. 2007)
“Husserl, the Monad and Immortality”, in Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology. vol. 9 (2007)
“Palaeo-Philosophy II: Archaic ideas about knowledge in Homeric Greek, Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian texts” in Martin Oven (Ed.) Comparative Philosophy. Cambridge, forthcoming
“Leibniz, the Pessimum and the Death Penalty”, forthcomingContact
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