Archive
Articles and Essays
written for the 2010 Edge World Question Center
La quête de l´équilibre: âme, vertus, humeurs
Lectures and Academic
Piece published in the French journal Corps (March 2010)
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Piece for Lapham´s Quarterly, "Medicine" issue (Fall 2009).
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Piece on the history of personals for Lapham´s Quarterly, Eros issue (Winter 2009).
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Given at the Third International Conference on the Philosophy of Wine, 30-31 May 2008.
"Just Life in a Nutshell": Humours as Common Sense
Lectures and Academic
Written for a symposium on "Folk Epistemologies" at Columbia University, in 2007. Published in The Philosophical Forum.
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Written for the first issue of a new journal on the philosophy of wine, Tacuinum Vitineum.
Speech After Long Silence: Of Poetry and Consciousness
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Delivered as invited speaker to the 2005 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize Reading, Poets´ House, New York City.
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A response to some reactions to Passions and Tempers, written in July 2007.
Opaque Humors, Enlightened Emotions, and the Transparent mind
Lectures and Academic
Published in the journal Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics (Harvard University Press), issue 51, spring 2007.
Melancholy and Humoural Passions in Early Modernity
Articles and Essays
Written for the catalogue of the exhibition on melancholy shown in Paris and Berlin in 2005-06.
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Response to a "Risk and Biomedicine" online debate: "Complementary and alternative medicine: Why is conventional medicine not enough?"
Humoural Passions and Seasoned Cares
Lectures and Academic
Lecture given in 2004 at a conference at Barnard, "Medicine Across Cultures: Medicine and the Mind, 600-1600".
Reason and Emotion in the Early Enlightenment
Lectures and Academic
Presented in 2003, first at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, then as a University Professors Occasional Lecture at Boston University.
Of Reasons, Humours and Passions: Explanatory Structure and the Mind-Body Problem
Lectures and Academic
The "philosophical manifesto" underlying Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. Presented in October 2002 as a seminar at the Italian Academy at Columbia University.
Text-e: Le texte à l´heure de l´internet
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From the online symposium text-e.
Form and Function in the Early Enlightenment
Lectures and Academic
An article about the relation between anatomical form and physiological function, derived from the doctoral thesis and published in Perspectives on Science.
Deafness, Ideas and the Language of Thought in the Late 1600s
Lectures and Academic
Published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 13: 2 (2005), pp. 233-262; based on a chapter from the doctoral thesis.
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Written in October 2005.
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Piece about the Internet, written initially for Prospect Magazine.
Book review: "Undermining Man"
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Review of Kenan Malik, Man, Beast and Zombie: What science can and cannot tell us about human nature, Times Literary Supplement.
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Review (unpublished) of Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain - and How It Changed the World (2004), commissioned initially by the New York Review of Books.
Book review: "Machines in Mind"
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Review of Douwe Draaisma, Metaphors of Memory: A History of Ideas About the Mind (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
On Pellegrino Artusi, Italy´s Victorian chef
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Essay (unpublished) about the Italian cookery classic, Pellegrino Artusi´s La scienza in cucina e l´arte di mangiar bene.
Adam´s Spectacles: Nature, Mind and Body in the Age of Mechanism
Lectures and Academic
Full text of the (unpublished) doctoral thesis.
Passions and Tempers
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
A 2500-year journey that explores the origins of humours in ancient Greece through the present day. Published by Ecco (HarperCollins). Read more.
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