JOHN WHIPPLE

Department of Philosophy, M/C 267
1406 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607

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John Whipple is a Visiting Assistant Professor; he will join the permanent faculty in the fall of 2008. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. His area of specialization is early modern philosophy. He is interested in fundamental metaphysical and epistemological issues such as causation, theories of finite substance, self-knowledge, and the relation between finite substances and God. His current research focuses on Leibniz’s mature philosophy, particularly the theory of monads, his account of intra-substantial causation, and his views on creation, conservation, and concurrence. He is also working on arguments for dualism and the mental status of sensible qualities in Malebranche and Descartes, and on the relations between Hobbes’s mechanistic conception of nature, his political philosophy, and his philosophical theology. His publications include “The Structure of Leibnizian Simple Substances,” forthcoming in British Journal for the History of Philosophy; “Hobbes on Miracles,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2008); “The Dustbin Theory of Mind: A Cartesian Legacy?” Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (2006) (co-author Lawrence Nolan); and “Self Knowledge in Descartes and Malebranche,” Journal of the History of Philosophy (2005) (co-author Lawrence Nolan).