David Cunning
Department of Philosophy, The University of Iowa
250 English-Philosophy Building, Iowa City, IA 52242-1408
Phone: (319) 335-0027 Fax: (319) 353-2322
e-mail: david-cunning@uiowa.edu
Education
Sept. 1994 - June 2000 University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 2000
M.A. in Philosophy, December 1997
Aug. 1989 - Dec. 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
Aug. 2000 - May 2003 Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Northern Illinois University
Jan. 1998 - May 1998 Visiting Lecturer
Pitzer College
Honors and Awards
RESEARCH
Sept. 2004 - May 2005 Fellowship National Endowment for the Humanities
Fall 2004 Research Fellowship, 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”
Summer 2003 Research grant, NIU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Summer 2001 Research grant, NIU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Publications
Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations, Oxford UP (2010), 248 pp.
"Method of Analysis," commissioned for The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan, Cambridge University Press
"Descartes' God," Models of God and Other Ultimate Realities, ed. J. Diller and A. Kasher, Springer Publishing (2011)
"Mind-Body Problems," The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. D. Kaufman, Routledge Publishing
"Margaret Lucas Cavendish," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. Zalta (2009)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/margaret-cavendish/index.html
Review (co-authored) of M. Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II, Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (2008), 644-5
"Malebranche and Occasional Causes," Philosophy Compass 3 (2008), 1-20
"Fifth Meditation TINs Revisited: A Reply to Criticisms of the Epistemic Interpretation,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16 (2008), 215-227
"Nicolas Malebranche," The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. T. Hockey, Springer Academic Publishers (2007), 731-2
"Descartes on the Dubitability of the Existence of Self," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74:1 (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
Review of Panpsychism in the West (MIT Press) by David Skrbina, Notre Dame Book Reviews (2005)
“Rationalism and Education” A Companion to Rationalism, ed. Alan Nelson, Blackwell Publishing (2005), 61-81
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
Work In Progress
Eight Interpretive Puzzles in the Philosophy of Spinoza
“The Implicit Reasoning in the Proof of Ip5” – under review
