Manuel Fasko
Biographic Data
| ID | 798041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Fasko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Fasko |
| SIGNATURE | FASKO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8385-4180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Depth of Margaret Cavendish's Ecology
We examine Margaret Cavendish’s ecological views and argue that, in the Appendix to her final published work, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668), Cavendish is defending a normative account of the way that humans ought to interact with their environment. On this basis, we argue that Cavendish is committed to a form of what, for the purposes of this paper, we call ‘deep ecology,’ where that is understood as the view that humans ought to treat the…
Discussion of Deborah Boyle’s Mary Shepherd
The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women
Slavery and Race
Julia Jorati calls her excellently written Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries an “amuse-bouche,” which aims to “illustrate the importance and sophistication of early modern debates about slavery and race” and hopefully motivates its reader “to investigate these debates more deeply on their own” (50). One of the first things to note about this book, however, is that it is part of a larger hors d’oeuv…
“The compound mass we term Self”
In this paper, I argue for a novel interpretation of Shepherd's notion of selfhood. In distinction to Deborah Boyle's interpretation, I contend that Shepherd differentiates between the mind and the self. The latter, for Shepherd, is an effect arising from causal interactions between mind and body—specifically those interactions that give rise to our present stream of consciousness, our memories, and that can unite these two. Thus, the body plays …
Questioning Authority
In this paper I argue that the English freethinker Anthony Collins (1676–1729) is making use of ‘conglobation’ to develop an argument across the Vindication of the Divine Attributes (1710) and the Discourse on Free-Thinking (1713), which aims to challenge the religious authority of orthodox representatives of the Anglican church. That is, Colins makes use of a rhetorical (piecemeal) strategy that serves to insinuate one’s proper position to creat…
Slavery and Race
Julia Jorati’s Slavery and Race is clearly and concisely written. This insightful book offers a long overdue, comprehensive overview on two key issues of early modern philosophy in Europe and North America: slavery and race. Given in many respects the groundbreaking nature of Jorati’s monograph, there are more methodological challenges than usual.1 The way she meets these challenges is important for what one can expect from this book, and for how…
‘God said “Let us make man in our image after our likeness”’ – Mary Shepherd, the imago-dei -thesis, and the human mind
This paper explores the role that Mary Shepherd's (1777-1847) acceptance of the so-called imago-dei thesis plays for her account of the human mind. That is, it analyses Shepherd's commitment to the doctrine that humans are created in the image of God, (see Gen. 1, 26-7) parts of which Shepherd quotes in Essays on the Perception of an External Universe (EPEU), 157, and the ways it informs her understanding of the human mind. In particular, it demo…
Two hostile bishops? A reexamination of the relationship between Peter Browne and George Berkeley beyond their alleged controversy
For decades scholars have argued that there was a heated argumentative exchange between the bishop of Cork and Ross, Peter Browne, and the bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley. Thus, they have unduly reduced Browne to a mere adversary of Berkeley. They also thereby distorted the perception of the Irish intellectual milieu in the seventeenth / eighteenth century and the way its participants influenced one another. Contrary to this controversy-reading…
Mary Shepherd's Threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’ and its Role in Improving Education
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, I offer a new insight into Shepherd's theory of mind by demonstrating that she distinguishes a threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’, that is, three kinds of minds grouped according to their cognitive limitations. Following Shepherd, I call them (i) minds afflicted with idiocy, (ii) inferior understandings, and (iii) sound understandings. Second, I show how Shepherd's distinction informs her theory of educati…
The Irish Context of Berkeley's ‘Resemblance Thesis’
In this paper, we focus on Berkeley's reasons for accepting the ‘resemblance thesis’ which entails that for one thing to represent another those two things must resemble one another. The resemblance thesis is a crucial premise in Berkeley's argument from the ‘likeness principle’ in §8 of the Principles . Yet, like the ‘likeness principle’, the resemblance thesis remains unargued for and is never explicitly defended. This has led several commentat…
The Demystification of Nick Zangwill’s “Myth of Religious Experience”
The debate about religious experiences has recently been shaped by the question of whether they exist or if they are a myth. One of the most compelling arguments for the non-existence of religious experience was put forward by Nick Zangwill. In his “The myth of religious experience” (2004) he argued that God can be perceived neither by our ordinary five senses nor by some special sixth sense. While I agree with Zangwill that God cannot be perceiv…
Mary Shepherd's Threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’ and its Role in Improving Education
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, I offer a new insight into Shepherd's theory of mind by demonstrating that she distinguishes a threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’, that is, three kinds of minds grouped according to their cognitive limitations. Following Shepherd, I call them (i) minds afflicted with idiocy, (ii) inferior understandings, and (iii) sound understandings. Second, I show how Shepherd's distinction informs her theory of educati…
Slavery and Race
Julia Jorati’s Slavery and Race is clearly and concisely written. This insightful book offers a long overdue, comprehensive overview on two key issues of early modern philosophy in Europe and North America: slavery and race. Given in many respects the groundbreaking nature of Jorati’s monograph, there are more methodological challenges than usual.1 The way she meets these challenges is important for what one can expect from this book, and for how…
The Demystification of Nick Zangwill’s “Myth of Religious Experience”
The debate about religious experiences has recently been shaped by the question of whether they exist or if they are a myth. One of the most compelling arguments for the non-existence of religious experience was put forward by Nick Zangwill. In his “The myth of religious experience” (2004) he argued that God can be perceived neither by our ordinary five senses nor by some special sixth sense. While I agree with Zangwill that God cannot be perceiv…
The Irish Context of Berkeley's ‘Resemblance Thesis’
In this paper, we focus on Berkeley's reasons for accepting the ‘resemblance thesis’ which entails that for one thing to represent another those two things must resemble one another. The resemblance thesis is a crucial premise in Berkeley's argument from the ‘likeness principle’ in §8 of the Principles . Yet, like the ‘likeness principle’, the resemblance thesis remains unargued for and is never explicitly defended. This has led several commentat…
Mary Shepherd's Threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’ and its Role in Improving Education
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, I offer a new insight into Shepherd's theory of mind by demonstrating that she distinguishes a threefold ‘Variety of Intellect’, that is, three kinds of minds grouped according to their cognitive limitations. Following Shepherd, I call them (i) minds afflicted with idiocy, (ii) inferior understandings, and (iii) sound understandings. Second, I show how Shepherd's distinction informs her theory of educati…
Two hostile bishops? A reexamination of the relationship between Peter Browne and George Berkeley beyond their alleged controversy
For decades scholars have argued that there was a heated argumentative exchange between the bishop of Cork and Ross, Peter Browne, and the bishop of Cloyne, George Berkeley. Thus, they have unduly reduced Browne to a mere adversary of Berkeley. They also thereby distorted the perception of the Irish intellectual milieu in the seventeenth / eighteenth century and the way its participants influenced one another. Contrary to this controversy-reading…
‘God said “Let us make man in our image after our likeness”’ – Mary Shepherd, the imago-dei -thesis, and the human mind
This paper explores the role that Mary Shepherd's (1777-1847) acceptance of the so-called imago-dei thesis plays for her account of the human mind. That is, it analyses Shepherd's commitment to the doctrine that humans are created in the image of God, (see Gen. 1, 26-7) parts of which Shepherd quotes in Essays on the Perception of an External Universe (EPEU), 157, and the ways it informs her understanding of the human mind. In particular, it demo…
“The compound mass we term Self”
In this paper, I argue for a novel interpretation of Shepherd's notion of selfhood. In distinction to Deborah Boyle's interpretation, I contend that Shepherd differentiates between the mind and the self. The latter, for Shepherd, is an effect arising from causal interactions between mind and body—specifically those interactions that give rise to our present stream of consciousness, our memories, and that can unite these two. Thus, the body plays …
Questioning Authority
In this paper I argue that the English freethinker Anthony Collins (1676–1729) is making use of ‘conglobation’ to develop an argument across the Vindication of the Divine Attributes (1710) and the Discourse on Free-Thinking (1713), which aims to challenge the religious authority of orthodox representatives of the Anglican church. That is, Colins makes use of a rhetorical (piecemeal) strategy that serves to insinuate one’s proper position to creat…
Slavery and Race
Julia Jorati’s Slavery and Race is clearly and concisely written. This insightful book offers a long overdue, comprehensive overview on two key issues of early modern philosophy in Europe and North America: slavery and race. Given in many respects the groundbreaking nature of Jorati’s monograph, there are more methodological challenges than usual.1 The way she meets these challenges is important for what one can expect from this book, and for how…
The Depth of Margaret Cavendish's Ecology
We examine Margaret Cavendish’s ecological views and argue that, in the Appendix to her final published work, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668), Cavendish is defending a normative account of the way that humans ought to interact with their environment. On this basis, we argue that Cavendish is committed to a form of what, for the purposes of this paper, we call ‘deep ecology,’ where that is understood as the view that humans ought to treat the…
Discussion of Deborah Boyle’s Mary Shepherd
The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women
Slavery and Race
Julia Jorati calls her excellently written Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries an “amuse-bouche,” which aims to “illustrate the importance and sophistication of early modern debates about slavery and race” and hopefully motivates its reader “to investigate these debates more deeply on their own” (50). One of the first things to note about this book, however, is that it is part of a larger hors d’oeuv…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (3 works) · Theology (3 works)