Marleen Rozemond October 2019

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Philosophy [email protected]

University of Toronto
170 George St,
Toronto, ON M5R 2M8

Education:
June 1979: "kandidaats" (equivalent of B.A.), cum laude, French Literature and
Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1978-1980: Department of Philosophy, Universiteit van Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Summer 1979: American Linguistics Summer Institute, Salzburg, Austria
Fall 1979: Department of Linguistics, Université de Paris VIII, France
Spring 1989: PhD in philosophy, UCLA.

Dissertation: Descartes's Conception of the Mind Advisor, Robert M. Adams

Area of Specialization: Early Modern Philosophy

Areas of Competence: Medieval Philosophy, Multicultural and Gender Issues,
Philosophy of Religion

Employment :
Visiting Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, April-June 2019
Visiting Professor, École normale supérieure, Paris, January 2019
Full Professor, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2008-
Associated faculty, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, UTM, 2002-
Associated faculty, Center for Medieval Studies, and Collaborative Program in Ancient and
Medieval Philosophy, University of Toronto, 2003-
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University at California, Berkeley,
Spring 2008
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Mississauga, 2002- 2008
Associate Professor, Kansas State University, 1998-2002
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University, 1997-1998
Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1989-1997

Honors and Awards:

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2017-2022 ($ 95,750)
SSHRC Insight Grant, 2012-2017 ($101,250.00)
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2008-2012 ($29,000)
Chancellor Jackman Fellowship, Fall, 2006
Dean’s Special Merit Award for Research 2003-2004
SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2004-2008 ($25,865)
SIG grant, University of Toronto, 2004-2006
Connaught Start up Grant, University of Toronto, 2002-2004 ($10,000)

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 Foreign Travel Award, Kansas State University, 2001-2002
University Small Research Grant, Kansas State University, 1998
Fellowship awarded by the Center for Advanced Study or Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for
1996-1997 (declined)
Course Development Grant (with Debra Satz), Feminist Studies Program, Stanford
University, 1995
Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center, 1992-1993
UCLA Carnap Prize for Essays in Philosophy 1989
UCLA Alumni Distinguished Scholar Award, 1987-1988
Dissertation Fellowship, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center, UCLA, 1985- 1986
First Year Fellowship, Philosophy Department, UCLA, 1981-1982

Languages: Dutch (native), French, German, Latin, some Greek and Italian

PUBLICATIONS:

Book: Descartes's Dualism, Harvard University Press 1998, paperback 2002.

Articles:
“Leibniz on Internal Action and Why Mills can’t think”, Leibniz Review forthcoming 2019
“Descartes, Malebranche and Leibniz: Conceptions of Substance in Arguments for the
Immateriality of the Soul”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2016 (22 pages).
6 entries to the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, Cambridge University Press, Larry Nolan, ed. 2016
(24 pages)
“Pasnau on the Immateriality of the Mind”, Philosophical Studies, (171.1) 2014, pp. 3-16 (14 pp.)
“The Faces of Simplicity in Descartes’s Soul”, Partitioning the Soul: Debates from Plato to Leibniz, ed. by
Klaus Corcilius & Dominik Perler, Berlin & New York: W. de Gruyter, 2014, pp. 219-244 (25
pages).
“Mills Can’t Think: Leibniz’ Approach to the Mind-Body Problem”, Res Philosophica, 91.1,
2014, pp. 1-28 (28 pages).
“Unity in the Multiplicity of Suárez’ Soul”, in Benjamin Hill and Henrik Lagerlund
eds., The Philosophy of Francisco Suarez, Oxford University Press 2012, pp. 154-172 (19
pages).
“Separability, Real Distinction and Corporeal Substance in Descartes”, Midwest Studies in
Philosophy, 2011, Peter French, Howard Wettstein and John Carriero eds., Wiley
Blackwell Publishing, pp. 240-258 (19 pages).
“Descartes and the Immortality of the Soul”, in Mind, Method and Morality: Essays in Honour of
Anthony Kenny, Oxford University Press, 2010, John Cottingham and Peter Hacker eds.,
pp. 252-272 (21 pages)
“Can Matter Think? The Mind-Body Problem in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence”
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Jon Miller ed., Springer Verlag, 2009), pp.
171-192 (22 pages)
“Leibniz on Final Causation”, Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert
Merrihew Adams, Oxford University Press 2009, pp. 279-294. (16 pages)

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“Descartes’s Ontology of the Eternal Truths“, in Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern
Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell, Paul Hoffman, David Owen, Gideon Yaffe
eds., Broadview Press, 2008, pp. 41-63. (23 pages)
“The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence”, The
Achilles of Rational Psychology, T. Lennon and R. Stainton eds., Springer Verlag, 2008,
pp. 159-175. (17 pages)
“Descartes’s Dualism”, A Companion to Descartes, John Carriero and Janet Broughton, eds.,
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp. 372-389. (18 pages)
“The Nature of the Mind”, Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations, Stephen Gaukroger, ed.,
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 48-66 (19 pages).
Critical Notice on Descartes’s Method of Doubt by Janet Broughton, Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, 2004, pp. 591-613 (23 pages).
“Peach Trees, Gravity and God: Locke on Mechanism”, with Gideon Yaffe, British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, 2004, pp. 387-412 (26 pages).
“Descartes on Mind-Body Union and Holenmerism”, Philosophical Topics, vol. 31, 2003, pp. 343-
367 (25 pages).
“Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction: What’s the Problem?”, Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 1999, pp. 435-467 (33 pages).
"Leibniz on the Union of Body and Soul", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 1997, pp. 150-
178 (29 pages).
"The First Meditation and the Senses", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1996. pp. 21-
52 (32 pages).
"Descartes's Case for Dualism", The Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1995, pp. 29-63.
Reprinted in The Rationalists: Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, Derk
Pereboom ed., Rowman and Littlefield 1999 (35 pages).
"Evans on De Re Thought", Philosophia, 1994, pp. 279-298 (22 pages).
"The Role of the Intellect in Descartes's Case for the Incorporeity of the Mind", in Essays on the
Philosophy and Science of René Descartes, Stephen Voss, ed., Oxford University Press,
1993, pp. 97-114 (18 pages).

Book Reviews:
Review of Essays on Descartes, Paul Hoffman, in Philosophical Review, 2013, vol. 122(1), pp. 122-
125.
Review of Descartes among the Scholastics, Roger Ariew, Brill, in HOPOS, Journal for the
International Society for the History and Philosophy of Science , 2013, vol 3(1), pp. 186-
190.
Review of The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes
to Hume, Udo Thiel, Oxford University Press, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2012.
Review of Descartes’s Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J.E. McGuire, in The Philosophical
Review, vol. 121, 2012, pp. 137-139.
Review of Descartes’s Concept of Mind, Lilli Alanen, in Theoria, 2006.
Review of Leibniz: Nature and Freedom, Donald Rutherford and Jan Cover eds., Leibniz Review,
2005.
Review of What am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem, Joseph Almog, Mind, vol. 113,
January 2004

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Review of Ideas and Mechanism: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy, Margaret Wilson, British
Journal for the History of Philosophy, March 2001
Review of Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Susan James,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, November 2000
Review of Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought , Dennis
DesChene, The Philosophical Review, April 1998
Review of R.S. Woodhouse and Richard Francks (eds.), Leibniz’s ‘New System’ and Associated
Contemporary Texts, Leibniz Society Review, 1998
Review of Daniel Garber, Descartes' Metaphysical Physics, in History of European Ideas 21, 1995.
Review of John Cottingham, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, in The Journal of the
History of Philosophy, 1994.

Unpublished manuscript:
“Protecting the Rights of Minority Women: Shari’a Tribunals in Ontario” (36 pages).

Papers in progress:
“The Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul in Early Modern Philosophy”
“Cudworth against Thinking Matter”
“Cudworth’s Plastick Natures”
“Descartes on Substance”

Invited Papers and Addresses:

Workshop on Tad Schmaltz, Metaphysics of the Extended World, University of Notre Dame, April
2010
New York City Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Fordham University, April 2020
Conference Women and Early Modern European Philosophy, University of Philadelphia, March
2020
Québec-Ontario Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Université de Montréal, November
2019 (keynote)
Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, May 2019, (keynote)
Conference “Varieties of Unity”, Groningen, April 2019 (keynote)
Conference on Vitalism, University of Cambridge, March 2019
Seminar of the Société d’Études Leibniziennes de Langue Française, Sorbonne, Paris, January
2019
Conference “Mind and Matter: Dividing lines in Early Modern Philosophy”, École normale
supérieure, Paris January 2019
Conference “Mind and Matter across Time and Disciplines”, Institut d’études avancées,
Paris, January 2019
“Mathesis” Early Modern Philosophy Researc Group, École Normale Supérieure, Paris,
January 2019
Départment de philosophie, Paris X--Nanterre, January 2019
Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, University of Toronto November
2018
Joint conference of the Leibniz Society of North America and the Société d’études leibniziennes
de langue française, October 2018, Montréal (Keynote)

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THouGHtS: Toronto-Humboldt-Groningen-Harvard-Sydney Workshop in Early Modern
Philosophy, Harvard, September 2018
Margaret D. Wilson Conference, SUNY Buffalo, June 2018
Conference on “Substance in Early Modern Philosophy”, University of Groningen, June 2018
(keynote)
Rutgers Department of Philosophy, Colloquium, April 2018
Society for Early Modern Philosophy at Yale, April 2018
Pacific APA, San Diego, April 2018
Conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy, Groningen, Netherlands,
December 2016
Workshop on Elliot Paul, Descartes’s Epistemology, Barnard College, October 2016
Margaret Wilson Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 2016
Philosophy Department, The Ohio State University, April 2016
Conference “Metaphysics and its History”, Boulder, Colorado, March 2016
History of Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Research Group, Notre Dame, February
2016
Philosophy Department, McMaster University, January 2016
Toronto-Groningen-Berlin Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Toronto, May
2015.
University of California, San Diego History of Philosophy Roundtable, April 2015.
Conference “Descartes et la scolastique”, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, March, 2015
Conference “Changing Conceptions of Life: Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives”, Mont
Tremblant, January 2015.
Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, Lake Tahoe, May-June 2014
Philosophy Department, Syracuse University, April 2014.
Conference in honour of Marilyn McCord Adams, Georgetown University, March 2014
Toronto-Berlin-Groningen Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Groningen,
Netherlands, December 2013 (Keynote)
NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: Consciousness, November 2013.
Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, October 2013.
History of Modern Philosophy Workshop, University of Toronto, September 2013.
Pacific APA, San Francisco, March 2013.
Central APA, New Orleans, February 2013.
Department of Philosophy, Trent University, January 2013.
Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, November 2012.
Toronto-Berlin Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Humboldt University,
October 2012.
Workshop on Consciousness, Harvard University, October 2012.
Workshop “Matter and Nature in Early Modern Philosophy”, Ghent University, June 2012.
Notre Dame Early Modern Research Group, April 2012.
CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Department, March 2012.
Berlin-Toronto Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, Berlin, November 2011.
Yale University, Society of Early Modern Philosophy, October 2011.
University of Toronto Early Modern Research Group, October 2011.
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, San Diego, April 2011.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Early Modern Workshop, March 2011.

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“Workshop: Descartes’s Philosophy of Mind” conference, University of Western Ontario, April
2010.
Harvard Philosophy Department Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, April 2010.
Participant in Panel on the teaching of Early Modern Women Philosophers, Conference in
Honor of Eileen O’Neill, Barnard, October, 2009.
“Partition of the Soul in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy”, Humboldt
University, Berlin, October 2009.
SPAWN conference, Syracuse University, August 2009.
Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities en
Instituut Wijsbegeerte, Universiteit Leiden, April 2009.
Descartes conference, Santa Clara University, October 2008.
Workshop on Francisco Suárez, University of Western Ontario, September 2008.
Workshop in the History of Philosophy, UCLA, April 2008.
Department of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley, February 2008.
Workshop on Multiculturalism and Human Rights, University of Toronto, April 2007.
Workshop in the History of Philosophy, UCLA, February 2007
Conference on Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Queen’s University,
November 2006.
Department of Philosophy, Kansas State University, August 2006.
Nordic Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Uppsala, May 2006.
Workshop “The Achilles of Rational Arguments”, Western University, April 2006.
Morris Colloquium, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, March 2006.
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, November 2005.
Conference on Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University, October 2005.
Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, University of Western Ontario, May 2005
Conference in honor of Robert M. Adams, Yale University, April 2005.
Department of Philosophy, Queens University, September 2004.
Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Netherlands, May 2004.
Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, December 2003.
Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2003
Central Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Toronto, April 2003
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, 2003.
Conference “The Eternal Truths”, Calgary, June 2002.
Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford, Ohio, October 2001.
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, March 2001.
(Author-meets-critic session on my book, Descartes’s Dualism)
Kansas Philosophical Society, February 2001.
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York, December 2000.
Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, November 2000.
Conference of the New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Harvard,
November 1999.
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, November 1999.
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, Berkeley, 1999.
Conference of the California Scholars in Early Modern Philosophy, Berkeley, 1998.
World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998.

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American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meetings, Atlanta, 1996.
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996.
University of North Carolina Philosophy Fall Colloquium, 1996.
Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1996.
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, 1996.
Conference "Descartes: 1596-1996", University of California, Riverside, 1996.
Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics, 1995.
Conference on Descartes, Cartesianism and anti-Cartesianism, University of California, Irvine,
1995.
Conference on Early Modern Philosophy, Stanford University, 1995.
American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meetings, Chicago, 1995.
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, San Francisco, 1995.
Leibniz Society of North America, Meetings of the Pacific Division of the American
Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, 1994.
Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1994.
Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Chicago, 1994
École normale supérieure, Paris, 1994.
Department of Philosophy, Université de Caen, 1994.
American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, 1993.
Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1993.
Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 1992.
Descartes Conference, Reading, England, 1991.
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991.
Midwest Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Chicago, 1990.
Descartes Conference, San Jose, 1988.
Department of Philosophy, Université de Liège, and the American Institute, Liège, Belgium, 1980.

Citizenship and Immigration Status: Dutch Citizen, Canadian Citizen.