Amy M Schmitter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy M Schmitter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmitter |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMITTER A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8753-064X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A common measure
Thomas Hobbes claims that the sovereign of a commonwealth provides a “common measure,” determining what counts as right reason for its subjects. As a form of public reason, this is often taken to be a purely political notion. I maintain that Hobbes holds that the public reason of the sovereign also provides a number of epistemic benefits both to the commonwealth and to individuals. Some are a matter of providing conditions that allow for the soci…
Mary Shepherd’s Essays on the Perception of an External Universe
Cartesian prejudice
The 17th century author François Poulain de la Barre was both an important contributor to the history of feminist thought and a thoroughgoing Cartesian. Poulain borrows from many of Descartes's doctrines, including his dualism, distrust of epistemic authority, accounts of imagination, and passion, and at least some aspects of his doxastic voluntarism; here, I examine how he uses a Cartesian notion of prejudice for an anti‐essentializing philosoph…
The Verificationist in Spite of Himself
Book reviewed in this article: Keith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art History
Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting
It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word "dog" is a furry, tail-wagging mammal. Nor are properties belonging to the object of a representation necessarily properties of the representation: a picture of a big dog need not be big, a picture of a dog that resembles Fido need not resemble Fido; even a picture of brown Fido need not be…
Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting
It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word "dog" is a furry, tail-wagging mammal. Nor are properties belonging to the object of a representation necessarily properties of the representation: a picture of a big dog need not be big, a picture of a dog that resembles Fido need not resemble Fido; even a picture of brown Fido need not be…
Representation and the Body of Power in French Academic Painting
It seems natural, even obvious, to distinguish between representations and what they are representations of. A picture of a dog is no more a dog than the word "dog" is a furry, tail-wagging mammal. Nor are properties belonging to the object of a representation necessarily properties of the representation: a picture of a big dog need not be big, a picture of a dog that resembles Fido need not resemble Fido; even a picture of brown Fido need not be…
The Verificationist in Spite of Himself
Book reviewed in this article: Keith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art History
Cartesian prejudice
The 17th century author François Poulain de la Barre was both an important contributor to the history of feminist thought and a thoroughgoing Cartesian. Poulain borrows from many of Descartes's doctrines, including his dualism, distrust of epistemic authority, accounts of imagination, and passion, and at least some aspects of his doxastic voluntarism; here, I examine how he uses a Cartesian notion of prejudice for an anti‐essentializing philosoph…
Mary Shepherd’s Essays on the Perception of an External Universe
A common measure
Thomas Hobbes claims that the sovereign of a commonwealth provides a “common measure,” determining what counts as right reason for its subjects. As a form of public reason, this is often taken to be a purely political notion. I maintain that Hobbes holds that the public reason of the sovereign also provides a number of epistemic benefits both to the commonwealth and to individuals. Some are a matter of providing conditions that allow for the soci…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)