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My publications in the area of Modern Philosophy ___________________________________________
1. Books authored:
The Other Bishop Berkeley. An Exercise in Reenchantment, Fordham University Press, New York, 2006, xii+227 pp, ISBN: 082-322-693-X (see blurbs) (see reviews)
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2. Articles (peer-reviewed):
"Rhetoric of Faith and Patterns of Persuasion in Berkeley's Alciphron," in The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 47: 4 (2006), pp. 544-561.
"Alchemists or Ecologists? Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Alchemical Transmutation," in Acta Philosophica. Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia (The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome & Instituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa), Volume 14, Issue 2 (2005), pp. 261-274.
"Philosophy as palimpsest," Existentia. An International Journal of Philosophy (Publisher: Societas Philosophia Classica, Frankfurt am Main & Budapest), Vol. XIV (3-4), pp. 337-344.
"Waiting for the Eschaton: Berkeley's 'Bermuda Project' between Earthly Paradise and Educational Utopia", Utopian Studies,Volume 14, Issue 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 36-50.
"Berkeley and Liber Mundi" in Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy, Volume 3, November 1999 (University of Limerick, Ireland).
"Between Don Quixote and San Juan de la Cruz" [An essay on the Spanish Baroque] in Revista de Filosofie [Romanian Journal of Philosophy], Romanian Academy Publishing House, Vol. XLII, nos. 5-6, 1995, pp. 593-599 [in Romanian].
3. Book chapters (peer-reviewed):
"Notes on Bishop Berkeley's New World," in Aurelian Craiutu & Jeffrey Issac (Eds.), America Through European Eyes (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press), 2009, pp. 45-69.
"'One is All, and All is One.' The Great Chain of Being in Berkeley's Siris" in Frank O'Gorman & Diana Donald (eds.), Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century [Studies in Modern History Series], Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2005, pp. 63-82.
"George Berkeley's 'Universal Language of Nature'" in Klaas van Berkel & Arjo Vanderjagt (eds.), The Book of Nature in Early Modern and Modern History, Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 2006, pp. 69-82.
"Liber mundi: The History of a Metaphor" in Cahiers of History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Culture, Paideia Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001, pp. 161-175 [in Romanian].
"Why Do Philosophers Not Agree With Each Other?" in Vasile Morar (ed.), Spirit and History, All-Beck Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999, pp. 252-267 [in Romanian].
"Formal Conditions of Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous" in Marin Diaconu (ed.) Aesthetics and Morality, Crater Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998, pp. 245-256 [in Romanian].
4. Introductions
Introduction to George Berkeley’s Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Library of Essential Reading Series (New York: Barnes & Noble Books), 2006, pp. vii-xv
5. Book reviews & review essays
Review of The Book of Dead Philosophers, by Simon Critchley, in The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, (2009) [forthcoming]
Review of Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, by Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran, in Berkeley Studies, 19 (2008), pp. 40-43.
Review of Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology and the Elusive Subject, by Talia Mae Bettcher, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXVIII (2008), pp. 9-11.
Review of Humanism and Secularism: From Petrarch to Valla, by Riccardo Fubini, in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 9.1 (February 2006), pp. 123-125.
Review of The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett), by Branka Arsic, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXIV, Issue 4 (August 2004), pp. 237-239.
Review of Masking the Abject. A Genealogy of Play, by Mechthild Nagel, in Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques, Vol. XXIII, Issue 5 (October 2003), pp. 359-360.
Review of Cosmopoiesis. The Renaissance Experiment, by Giuseppe Mazzotta, in Philosophy and Literature Vol. 27, Issue 2 (October 2003), pp. 471-475.
6. Dictionary/encyclopedia entries
“Idealism” in Heather Looy & Heidi Campbell (eds.), A Science and Religion Primer (Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, 2009), pp. 121-123.
Entries in Bruce Murphy (ed.), Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition (New York., Harper Collins, 2008)
Entries in Denis Huisman, A Dictionary of Major Philosophical Works [the Romanian enlarged version of Dictionnaire des mille oeuvres clés de la philosophie, Éditions Nathan, 1993] Enciclopedica Publishing House, Bucharest, 2001 [in Romanian].
7. Guest talks:
“On the very idea of Utopia,” What is Utopia? Genre and Modes of Representation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas SP, Brazil, June 3-5, 2009.
"(History of) Philosophy as Palimpsest," Models and Methods of the History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, the Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance &
Gesellschaft für Philosophie des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, University of Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2007
“Philosophy as an Art of Dying,” The Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 27 April, 2007
"Doing Philosophy Interdisciplinarily," Department of Liberal Studies, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton (CA), 9 February 2006.
"From Artes Liberales to Cyber-humanities. Teaching Interdisciplinary Humanities in the 21-st Century," The Honors College, Texas Tech University, 27 January 2006.
"The Ideals of Liberal Education," Department of Liberal Studies, Grand Valley State University, Allendale (MI) 22 April, 2005.
"Notes on Bishop Berkeley's America," America Seen Through Foreign Eyes, Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), 24-27 March, 2005.
“‘God is dreaming you:’ On Miguel de Unamuno, Life as a Dream, and Other Divine Tricks,” Department of Philosophy, Miami University, 22 October, 2004
8. Selected conference papers:
“Scapegoats, Martyrs, Founding Figures,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future – An International Colloquium, The Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March, 2010.
“Giordano Bruno’s Re-enchantment of Nature in La Cena delle ceneri,” The Annual Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association, University of North Texas, Denton, March 26-28, 2009.
“Dying as Self-expression,” Death in Images and Words: The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World, Texas Tech University, 23-25 October, 2008.
“Bruno’s Enchanted World,” Annual meeting of The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature , and Culture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Morelia), 17-20 January, 2008
“Berkeley and the Cathars,” George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment, Gaeta, Italy, 27-29 September 2007
"Philosophy as an Art of Dying," The Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium 2006, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, 2-3 March, 2006 [in absentia].
"The Book as a Metaphor. George Berkeley's use of the liber mundi," The Book, The Twentieth Annual DeBartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampla (FL), 16-18 February, 2006.
"Nature and Archetypal Knowledge in George Berkeley's Siris," The Nineteenth Annual DeBartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, 17-19 February, 2005.
"Using Sources and (almost) nothing else," Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité / Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity, May 8-9, 2003, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
“On George Berkeley as a Christian Apologist,” Society of Christian Philosophers, Eastern Regional Meeting, 4-7 December, 2003, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, USA.
"Berkeley's Educational Utopia", The Eleventh Quadrennial ISECS Congress on the Enlightenment, 3-10 August, 2003, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (paper awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies).
"Platonism and Berkeley's Early Philosophical Writings," George Berkeley International Conference, 3-5 April, 2003, Texas A&M University, USA (see abstract).
"Philosophy as Palimpsest," Philosophy As… A Conference Exploring the Nature and the State of Philosophy, 28-30 November 2002, University of London, United Kingdom.
"Ordering Worlds and Minds: 'The Great Chain of Being' in Berkeley's Siris," Ordering the World in the 18th Century, "5th Conference of the North Western Section of The British Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies", September 12-13 2002, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK (paper awarded a "Graduate Bursary" by the BSECS).
"George Berkeley and the universal language of nature," The Book of Nature. Continuity and Change in European and American Attitudes towards the Natural World, 22-25 May, 2002, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
"Lapis Philosophorum seu Medicina Universalis: Medication, Soteriology, and Symbolism in Medieval Alchemy," The 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 3-6 2002, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, USA (paper awarded a "Congress Travel Award" by the Kalamazoo Medieval Institute).
"George Berkeley: A Modern Alchemist?," Society Of Christian Philosophers, Central Division Meeting, March 7-9, 2002, Bethel College, St. Paul (MN), USA.
“The Island: an Ideal Place for Paradisiacal Nostalgias, Educational Utopias and Other Eschatological Enterprises,” The Ninth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 15-18 2001, Philadelphia, USA [in absentia].
"Communicating Paradigms," Universities of Durham and Bergen 2001 Philosophy Seminar, 27th-30th September 2001, University of Bergen, Norway.
"Matter as a Source of Evil in Berkeley and Catharism," Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. The 2nd Global Conference, March 16 - 21 2001, Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic.
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