STEPHEN VOSS Curriculum Vitae

Philosophy Department, Bogazici University, 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

Office phone (90) 212 359 6659. Home phone (90) 212 299 7465. Email shvoss@gmail.com

TEACHING AND RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

History of modern philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and self, philosophy of reli-
gion, figures like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant

EXPERIENCE

1993- Bogazici University. Professor of Philosophy. Graduate seminars: ethics, the

self, Leibniz, the I, reality, philosophy of mind, consciousness, philosophy as a
way of life, philosophical method, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Aristotle’s De An-
ima, Plato, Descartes and Aristotle, Descartes and Leibniz, Leibniz and Kant.
Undergraduate classes: Descartes then and now, ancient & medieval philoso-
phy, modern philosophy, eastern philosophy, philosophical reflections on Su-
fism, history of philosophy I-II-III-IV, Kant, philosophical schools, emotion,
philosophy of mind, the self, the soul, philosophy of religion, ontology, intro-
ductory logic I-II, philosophical texts, introduction. MA and Ph.D. supervision

1992-93 Center for Philosophy of Religion, University of Notre Dame. Distinguished

Senior Fellow. Research on philosophy of mind in church fathers

1991-92 Veyrins, France. Research on Leibniz-Arnauld correspondence (completed)

1978-91 San Jose State University. Associate Professor. Additional courses taught: phi-
losophy of the person, social and political philosophy, part of humanities se-
quence. MA supervision

1989 SJSU Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise award

1989 Sabbatical. Visiting appointment, University of Massachusetts Amherst

1973-78 Department of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian Na-

tional University, Canberra. Research Fellow. Ph.D. supervision

1966-71 University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Assistant Professor. Additional courses

taught: metaphysics, honors logic, seminar in action theory. Ph.D. supervision
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CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY and WORK IN PROGRESS

A book on philosophy of mind (what it is to have a mind; the self; sensations, feelings, and
emotions; intentionality; self-knowledge; soul vs. mind; reason vs. love; mind and body)

“Explaining Self-Consciousness” (knowledge of oneself)

“Belief about Myself” (what explains its power to move me to act?)

“I and Now” (indexical facts, “first-person facts,” truth conditions for indexical sentences)

“A Single Minded Universe” (a new argument for a Spinozist metaphysics)

“Identity for You and Me” (transgenerational personal identity)

“The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life” (literature vs. philosophy.) Submitted

“Mind-Body Causation and Action at a Distance” (how absurd is it that a substance in space
can interact with a substance not in space?)

PUBLICATIONS

The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence. Yale University Press. A volume in The Yale

Leibniz. Critical edition. Establishes French text and translates it into English.

2008 “A Critique of Kantian Sensibility.” In Contemporary Perspectives on Early Modern

Philosophy, edited by Paul Hoffman, David Owen, and Gideon Yaffe. Broadview
Press. An earlier version appeared in Immanuel Kant: Essays Presented at the Muğla
University International Kant Symposium (Kutuphane Bilgi Kartı, 2006)

“Agent’s Knowledge and First-Person Authority.” in Proceedings of the XXII World

Congress of Philosophy, vol. 42. Philosophy Documentation Center

2007 Ethics. Philosophical Society of Turkey. Co-editor with Harun Tepe. Papers from the
2003 World Congress of Philosophy

Epistemology. Philosophical Society of Turkey. Co-editor with Dermot Moran. Papers

from the World Congress

Logic and Philosophy of the Sciences. Philosophical Society of Turkey. Co-editor

with Gürol Irzık and Berna Kılınç. Papers from the World Congress

Human Rights. Philosophical Society of Turkey. Co-editor with Zeynep Davran. Pa-
pers from the World Congress
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PUBLICATIONS (continued)

Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Philosophical Society of Turkey. Co-editor with

Pınar Canevi. Papers from the World Congress

2006 Philosophical Anthropology. Philosophical Society of Turkey. Editor. Papers from the
World Congress

2005 Review of Husain Sarkar, Descartes’ Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck.
Journal of the History of Philosophy 43 (4) 490

2002 “Advice about How to Do Philosophy in the Twenty-first Century.” In New Mille-
nium Perspectives in the Humanities, edited by Judi Upton-Ward. Istanbul: Fatih Uni-
versity and Provo, UT: Brigham Young University

2001 Review of Roger Ariew, Descartes and the Last Scholastics, in Philosophical Books

2000 “Descartes: Heart and Soul.” Invited chapter in Psyche and Soma in the History of
Western Medicine and Philosophy, edited by Paul Potter and John P. Wright. Oxford:
Oxford University Press

“ L’Homme disparu et les fruits de la philosophie” [in French; English title “The Dis-
appearance of Man and the Fruits of Philosophy”]. In Actes du XXVIe Congrès de
l’Association des Sociétés de Langue Française. Paris

1999 “A Spectator at the Theater of the World.” In New Essays on the Rationalists, edited
by Rocco Gennaro and Charles Huenemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press

“Zaman İçinde Seyahate İlişkin Kimi Düşünceler” [English title “Some Simple
Thoughts about Time Travel”], Felsefe Tartışmaları (no. 25) 42-47

1998 “Suvar Köseraif İle Tartışma” [English title “Arguing with Suvar Köseraif”], Felsefe
Tartışmaları (no. 23) 29-34

“Dünya Tiyatrolarında Bir Seyirci” [English title “Spectators at the Theater of the
World”] Felsefe Tartışmaları (no. 21) 40-49

1997 “Descartes’ın Sevgi Kuramı “ [English title “Cartesian Love”], Cogito (no. 10) 161-
174

1995 A Philosophical Concordance to Descartes’s “Les Passions de l’âme.” Online at http ://

net.cgu.edu/philosophy/descartes/conc/conc_index.html and available on disk from au-
thor c/o Hackett Publishing Company
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PUBLICATIONS (continued)

1994 “Descartes: The End of Anthropology.” In Reason, Will, and Sensation, edited by
John Cottingham. Oxford : Oxford University Press

1994 “Le grand Arnauld sur la racine et le fruit de l'argument cartésien pour la distinction
réelle.” In Descartes: Objecter et répondre, edited by Jean-Marie Beyssade and Jean-
Luc Marion. Paris: PUF

1993 “On the Authority of the Passiones Animae,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
75 (no. 2) 160-177

Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes. Oxford University Press. A
collection including 17 new papers and two newly translated into English. Editor; au-
thor of introduction and “Simplicity and the Seat of the Soul”; translator of four essays

“Scientific and Practical Certainty in Descartes,” American Catholic Philosophical

Quarterly 67 (no. 4) 569-585. Reprinted in Descartes, edited by Tom Sorell. Alder-
shot: Ashgate-Dartmouth, 2000. A volume in the International Library of Critical Es-
says in the History of Philosophy.

1992 “Understanding Eternal Life,” Faith and Philosophy 9 (no. 1) 3-22

1991 “New English Translation of the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence,” Leibniz Newslet-

ter & Review (December) 6

1989 The Passions of the Soul. English edition of René Descartes's Les Passions de l'âme,
with translator's introduction, translation of G. Rodis-Lewis's introduction, notes, lexi-
con, bibliography, index, index locorum. Hackett Publishing Company

1986 A Guidebook for Publishing Philosophy, second edition, edited by Janice Moulton.
Newark, DE: American Philosophical Association (APA). Assistant Editor and author
of four sets of comments on journals and publishers.

1981 “How Spinoza Enumerated the Affects,” Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 63
(no. 2) 167-179

1980 “An English Edition of Les Passions de l'âme,” Nouvelles cartésiennes 1 (September)
6-7

“The Structure of Type Theory,” Journal of Philosophy 77 (May) 241-259. With

Charles Sayward

1976 “Eternal Sentences,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 54 (May) 14-23. With

Charles Sayward
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 PUBLICATIONS (continued)

1975 Review of Richard Taylor's Metaphysics, second edition, Australasian Journal of Phi-
losophy 53 (May) 82-86

1972 “Absurdity and Spanning,” Philosophia 2 (July) 227-238. With Charles Sayward

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Referee, Studia Cartesiana, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Oxford University Press

Assistant Editor of Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 42. Philoso-
phy Documentation Center, 2006-2007.

Summer Seminar on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, directed by Jonathan Bennett, at Syra-
cuse University. Sponsored by NEH. 1995

Guest Editor of Autumn 1993 issue of American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly on current
responses to Descartes. Papers by W. Doney, B. Dutton, K. Winkler, N. Wolterstorff, A.
Maurer, N. Wells, S. Menn, J.-L. Marion, and S. Voss. Editor Robert Wood

Participant in Centre d'histoire de la Philosophie des XVIe-XVIIIe Siècles, directed by J.-L.

Marion. 1991-92

Participant in Centre d'Etudes Cartésiennes, Paris, directed by Jean-Marie Beyssade. 1991-92

Summer Seminar on Descartes, directed by Willis Doney, at Dartmouth College. 1991

Organizer of “Metaphysics and Classification of the Sciences in 1637,” an international con-

ference celebrating the 350th anniversary of Descartes's Discourse on Method. San Jose, April
1988, with nine invited papers, 24 contributed papers, and student-scholar round tables.

Institute in Philosophy of Religion, directed by William Alston and Alvin Plantinga, at West-
ern Washington University. 1986

Founding Member and Board of Directors, Applied Philosophy Institute, San Jose, CA

Summer Seminar on The Moral Force of the Passions, directed by Amélie Rorty, at Williams
College. 1980

Secretary and Executive Board member of Australasian Association of Philosophy, 1973-

1978

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 EDUCATION

1963-66 Stanford University. Ph.D. 1968

Dissertation: What It Is to Have an Impression.
Advisor: Jaakko Hintikka. Field: Philosophy of mind

1962-63 University of California, Berkeley. Graduate study in philosophy

1958-62 Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. National Merit Scholarship. Major mathemat-
ics, minor philosophy. AB 1962