Papers

“Descartes and Spinoza on the Primitive Passions: Why So Different?” in Freedom, Action and Motivation in Spinoza’s Ethics. Ed. Noa Naaman Zauderer, pp. 62-81. Routledge, 2019 9780367362249_DandSPrimitivePassionsNaaman-Zauderer_CH04

“Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Cartesian” in Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, ed. Tad Schmaltz and Steven Nadler. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 287-302. Shapiro-ElisabethasCartesian

“Self-Consciousness and Consciousness of Self: Spinoza on Desire and Pride,” in Mind, Body, and Morality, ed. M. Reuter and F. Svensson, Routledge, 2019. Spinoza on Desire and Pride

“Assuming Epistemic Authority, or Becoming a Thinking Thing,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, aoy013,   Permanent link to the published article

“Revisiting the Early Modern Philosophical Canon”, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2,3 (October 2016), 365–383. PDF: shapirorevisitingearlymoderncanonfinal
Please see addendum for small but non-trivial revision: apa_1700014_FP I am also working on a supplementary bibliography for those who might be interested in pursuing the details of the alternative narratives sketched out in very broad brush strokes in this article. It will be posted here when complete.

“Gabrielle Suchon’s ‘Neutraliste‘: The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy. In Women and Liberty: 1600-1800. Jacqueline Broad and Karen Detlefsen (eds). Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 50-65. PDF:shapiro_suchon_autonomyfinal

“Spinoza on the Association of Affects and the Workings of the Human Mind.” In Spinoza’s Ethics: A Critical Guide. Yitzhak Melamed (ed). Cambridge UP, 2017. PDF: shapirospinozaassociationaffects-fin

“Memory in the Meditations” (ShapiroMemoryinMeditationsFinalFINAL (pdf of final draft)), Res Philosophica, ed. Scott Ragland, 92, 1, (Jan 2015), pp.1-20..

Pleasure, Pain and Sense Perception (pdf corrected page proofs), in Routledge Companion to 18th Century Philosophy, ed. Aaron Garrett, Routledge, (2014)

The Outward and Inward Beauty of Early Modern Women (pdf of final draft), invited contribution Revue philosophique, ed. Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin,  2013.

Cartesian Selves (pdf of final draft) in Descartes’s Meditations: A Critical Guide, ed. Karen Detlefsen, Cambridge UP ( January 2013). Cartesian Selves — corrected proofs

How We Experience the World: Passionate Perception in Descartes and Spinoza (pdf of corrected page proofs) in Emotion and Reason in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Martin Pickavé and Lisa Shapiro, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012, pp. 193-216. “Passionate Perception” published version

Spinoza on Imagination and Affect (pdf of corrected page proofs) in Emotional Minds: Passions and the Limits of Pure Enquiry II: The Seventeenth Century, ed. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Berlin: DeGruyter (forthcoming), pp.89-104 “Spinoza on Imagination and Affect” published version

Descartes’s Pineal Gland Reconsidered (pdf) Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 35, 2011, pp. 259-286. 

Elisabeth, Descartes et la psychologie morale du regret (pdf of final draft) in Elisabeth de Boheme face a Descartes: Deux Philosophes, ed. MF Pellegrin and Delphine Kolesnik, Vrin. (forthcoming)

L’amour, l’ambition and l’amitie: Marie Thiroux D’Arconville on Passion, Agency and Virtue (pdf of final draft) in Essays on Early Modern Women Philosophers, ed. Eileen O’Neill and Marcy Lascano, Kluwer (forthcoming). With bio-bibliography.

Descartes on Human Nature and the Human Good in The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation, eds. Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, and Justin E. H. Smith, Springer, 2011 pp.13-26.

Instrumental or Immersed Experience: Pleasure, Pain and Object Perception in Locke (pdf) in The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge: Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science, Springer eds. O. Gal and CT Wolfe, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25, 2010, pp. 265-285.

‘Turn My Will in Completely the Opposite Direction’: Radical Doubt and Descartes’s Account of Free Will (pdf) in Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell, ed. Paul Hoffman, David Owen and Gideon Yaffe, Broadview, 2008, pp. 21-39.

Descartes’s Ethics (pdf) in A Companion to Descartes, ed. John Carriero and Janet Broughton, Blackwell, 2007, pp. 445-463.

What are the Passions Doing in the Meditations? in Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier, Notre Dame, 2005, pp. 14-32.

Some Thoughts on the Place of Women in Early Modern Philosophy (pdf) in Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, ed. Lilli Alanen and Charlotte Witt, Kluwer, 2004, pp. 219-250.

Descartes’ Passions of the Soul and the Union of Mind and Body (pdf) Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 85, 2003, pp. 211-248.

The Structure of the Passions of the Soul (pdf) in Passion and Virtue in Descartes, ed. Byron Williston, Buffalo: Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2003, pp.31-79.

The Health of the Body-Machine? Seventeenth Century Mechanism and the Concept of Health (pdf) Perspectives on Science, 11 (4), 2003, 421-442.

What Do the Expressions of the Passions Tell Us? (pdf) Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, 1, 2003, pp.45-66.

Cartesian Generosity (pdf) in Norms and Modes of Thinking in Descartes, Acta Philosophica Fennica, 64, 1999, 249-275.

Princess Elizabeth and Descartes: The union of soul and body and the practice of philosophy (pdf)  British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 7 ( 3) 1999, 503-520.