Monte L.
Cook (Ph.D., Iowa),
Professor: Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics
My research focuses
on Cartesianism and metaphysics. Much of my work in modern philosophy has been
on the theories of ideas of Descartes, Malebranche, and Arnauld; and much of my
work in metaphysics has been on possible-worlds metaphysics. Recently I have
been working on Robert Desgabets.
Selected Publications
1. “Desgabets on the Creation of Eternal
Truths,” forthcoming in Journal of the History of Philosophy.
2. "The Ontological Status of
Malebranchean Ideas," Journal of the History of Philosophy, October
1998 (XXXV/4), 525-544.
3. “Descartes and the Dustbin of the Mind,” History
of Philosophy Quarterly (January 1996), 17-33.
4. "Descartes' Doubt of Minds," Dialogue xxvii (1988), 31-39.
5. “Tips for Time Travel,” in Nicholas D.
Smith, ed., Philosophers Look At Science Fiction (Chicago: Nelson-Hall,
1982), 47-55.
6. "If 'Cat' is a Rigid Designator,
What Does It Designate?" Philosophical Studies 37 (1980), 61-64.
7. "Arnauld's Alleged
Representationalism," Journal of the History of Philosophy, January
1974 (XII/1), 53-62.