Tad Schmaltz

Tad Schmaltz (* 1960 ) is a professor at the philosophy faculty at Duke University in Durham , North Carolina , USA .

His historical research focuses on v. a. in late scholasticism and early modern philosophy . He has presented studies on René Descartes , Nicolas Malebranche and Spinoza . Interest in knowledge are v. a. Questions of philosophy of mind and metaphysics, especially scholastic theories of causality and freedom and early modern theories of self-awareness .

Schmaltz received his Ph.D. 1988 in Notre Dame, received an assistant professorship there in 1989 and a full professorship there in 2003 and is currently dean of the faculty of philosophy there. He is editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy .

From the summer of 2010 Schmaltz is working on the philosophy faculty at the University of Michigan. He is returning to his hometown, where he attended St. Paul School in the 1970s.

Works (in selection)

Monographs

• Malebranche's Theory of the Soul . Oxford University Press, New York 1996
• Radical Cartesianism . Cambridge University Press, New York 2002.
• Ed. Of Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe . Routledge, London 2005.
• With ed. from Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy , Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series, Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD 2003.
• Descartes on Causation . Oxford University Press, New York 2008

Essays

• Cartesian causation: body-body interaction, motion, and eternal truths . In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science . Volume 34/4, 2003, pp. 737-762.
• The Cartesian Refutation of Idealism . In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy . Volume 10/4, 2002, pp. 513-540.
• What Has Cartesianism to Do with Jansenism? . In: Journal of the History of Ideas . Volume 60/1, 1999, pp. 37-56.
• Spinoza's Mediate Infinite Mode . In: Journal of the History of Philosophy . Volume 35/2, 1997, pp. 199-235.
• Human Freedom and Divine Creation in Malebranche, Descartes and the Cartesians . In: British Journal for the History of Philosophy . Volume 2/2, 1994, pp. 3-50.
• Descartes and Malebranche on Mind and Mind-Body Union . In: Philosophical Review . Volume 101/2, 1992, pp. 281-325.
• Platonism and Descartes' View of Immutable Essences . In: Archives for the History of Philosophy . Volume 73/2, 1991, pp. 129-170.

Web links

• Homepage with curriculum vitae and list of publications