"I am not a pilot in a ship."

BA (Hons) (Queensland), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto)

Deputy Head of School & Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Office: Forgan Smith E338
hone: (+61 7) 3365 2804
Email: deborah.brown@uq.edu.au

Teaching
History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology.

Research interests
Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics

Current research projects
Descartes' Ontology of Everyday Life

Selected recent publications
Books:
2006 Descartes and the passionate mind (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Chapters in books:
2008 “Descartes on true and false ideas”, in Janet Broughton & John Carriero, eds. A Companion to Descartes (Oxford: Blackwell).
2008 “Is Descartes’ body a mode of mind?”, in Henrik Lagerlund & Mikko Yrjonsuuri (eds), Forming the mind (Dordrecht: Springer).
2007 “Augustine and Descartes on the function of attention in perceptual awareness”, in Sarah Heinämaa, Vili Lähteenmäki, & Pauliina Remes (eds), Consciousness: from perceptiuon to reflection in the history of philosophy (Dordrecht: Springer).
2007 “Objective being in Descartes: that which we know or that by which we know?”, in Henrik Lagerland (ed.), Representations and objects of thought in medieval philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate).

Articles in refereed journals:
2005 “What part of ‘know’ don’t you understand?” The Monist, January. 2005.

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Other activities and service
Director of Honours (HPRC); Member, Federation of University Women Scholarships Committee.