James Messina

Occupation:
Graduate Student;   Geisteshistoriker

Philosophical Interests:
History of Modern Philosophy, especially Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, and Kant; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Literature

Papers in Progress (Comments Welcome!)
History of Philosophy:
"The Secret Life of Substratum" (On Locke's Ontology) PDF
"The Last Temptation of the Necessitarian" (On Spinoza's Ontology) HTML   PDF
"Dude, Where's My Soul-Substance?: Fission, Fusion, and Other 'Figments' in Kant's Paralogisms" HTML   PDF
"Why Kant Gave a Fach About Epistemology: Rorty's Failed Geistesgeschichte" HTML   PDF
"Why Intuitions Aren't Concepts: The Place of Non-Conceptual Content in Kant's Epistemology" HTML   PDF
"Coping with the Greatest Difficulty: Evaluating Rival Interpretations of Parmenides 133c-134e" HTML   PDF

Philosophy of Mind:
"Meaning Just Ain't in the Neural Network: Domain-Portrayal Semantics Versus Assymetric Dependence" HTML   PDF

Philosophy of Science/Philosophy of Language:
"The Essence of Race Talk: Eliminativism, Scientific Essentialism, and the Modern Synthesis" HTML   PDF

Presentations
"Why Kant Gave a Fach About Epistemology" Powerpoint Slides

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James Messina
Graduate Student
Philosophy Department
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92093-0119
jmessina@ucsd.edu