David Cunning
Department of Philosophy, The University of Iowa
272 English-Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
Phone: (319) 335-0027 Fax: (319) 353-2322
e-mail: david-cunning@uiowa.edu
Education
September 1994-June 2000 University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 2000
M.A. in Philosophy, December 1997
August 1989-December 1993 University of California, Berkeley
B.A. in Philosophy, December 1993
Positions
July 2007 – present Associate Professor of Philosophy
The University of Iowa
July 2003 – June 2007 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The
University of Iowa
Sept. 2004 - Dec. 2004 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los
Angeles
August 2000–May 2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Northern
Illinois University
January 1998 – May 1998 Visiting Lecturer, Pitzer College
Honors and Awards
RESEARCH
September 2004 – May 2005 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
Fall 2004 Research Fellowship ($2000/month for three months), UCLA Clark Library/ Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
July 2004 Stipend for NEH summer institute, “The Intersection of Philosophy, Science and Theology in the Seventeenth Century”
April 2004 Travel grant ($500), University of Iowa, Office of the VP for Research
March 2004 Travel grant ($400), University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Summer 2003 Research grant, NIU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences ($4000, plus $1500 for a research assistant)
Summer 2001 Research grant, NIU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences ($4000)
Spring (Quarter) 2000 Grant ($2000) from UC Irvine Humanities Center and UCI Philosophy for 2000 California Conference on Early Modern Philosophy
Fall 1999 Grant ($1000) from UCI Humanities Center, Associate Dean of Humanities & Philosophy Dept. for John Cottingham visit (early modern workshop)
Fall 1999 Grant ($4200) from UCI Humanities Center, UCI Associate Dean of Humanities, UCI Program in History and Philosophy of Science, & UCI Philosophy for workshop visits by Howard Stein and Janet Broughton
Winter 1999 UCI Humanities Travel Grant ($500) for 1999 Intermountain Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
Winter 1999 Grant ($600) from UCI Humanities Center) for early modern workshop
Winter 1999 UCI Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities ($4800)
Summer 1997 UCI Humanities Summer Dissertation Fellowship ($2500)
Summer 1997 UCI Humanities Research Grant ($1000)
Fall 1994-Spring 1995 UCI School of Humanities first-year fellowship
Publications
"Malebranche and Occasional Causes," commissioned for Philosophy Compass, Blackwell Publishing (2007)
“True and Immutable Natures: A Reply to Criticisms of My View,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy (2007)
"Descartes on the Dubitability of the Existence of Self," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research74:1 (2007), 111-131
"Semel in Vita: Descartes' Stoic View on the Place of Philosophy in Human Life," Faith and Philosophy 24 (2007), 164-183
"Cavendish on the Intelligibility of the Prospect of Thinking Matter," History of Philosophy Quarterly 23:2 (2006), 117-136
"Descartes on Sensations and Ideas of Sensations," An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Athens: Atiner Publishing (2006), 17-32
editor and translator, “Principii Cartesia” by Robert Percy Smith The Philological Museum (2004), ed. Dana Sutton, http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/rpsmith
“Systematic Divergences in Malebranche and Cudworth” Journal of the History of Philosophy 41:3 (2003), 343-363
“True and Immutable Natures and Epistemic Progress in Descartes's Meditations” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11:2 (2003), 235-248
“Descartes on the Immutability of the Divine Will” Religious Studies 39:1 (2003), 79-92
“Descartes’ Modal Metaphysics” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002), ed. Edward Zalta http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-modal
“Agency and Consciousness” Synthese 120:2 (1999), 271-294
“Modality and Cognition in Descartes” (co-authoredwith Alan Nelson** ) Acta Philosophica Fennica 64 (1999), 137-153
Review of Panpsychism in the West (MIT Press) by David Skrbina, Notre Dame Book Reviews
“Rationalism and Education” A Companion to Rationalism, ed. Alan Nelson, Blackwell Publishing (2005), 61-81
“Nicholas Malebranche” The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (in press) ed. Thomas Hockey, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Work In Progress
The Pedagogical Dilemma of Descartes’ Meditations
“Malebranche and Occasional Causes” – under review
