SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(see CV for complete list)

Books 2010, Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation, Oxford University Press (Hardcover). Paperback Edition in Fall 2013. https://www.amazon.com/Descartes-Puzzle-Sensory-Representation-Raffaella/dp/019957037X Peer Reviewed Articles:

• 2026, “The Self-luminousness of consciousness: Locke’s awareness principle as a defense of an empiricist account of the origin of ideas.”The British Journal For the History of Philosophy, 34(2):256-280 DOI: 10.1080/09608788.2025.2576185

• 2017 “Descartes and the Curious Case of the Origin of Sensory Ideas” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 97, Issue 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12421
• 2015 “René Descartes: Sensory Representations.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. Ed. Duncan Pritchard. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0272 https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo-9780195396577-0272.xml

• 2013  “Descartes’ Causal Principle and the Case of Body-to-Mind Causation” in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol.43, No.4, 438-459. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-philosophy/article/abs/descartes-causal-principle-and-the-case-of-bodytomind-causation/39970D86D2250068C6AE3597D6EF9909

•  2011 “Rethinking the Ontology of Cartesian Essences” in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol.19, 4, July 2011, pp.605-622. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09608788.2011.583414

•   2009 “Cartesian Sensations” in Philosophy Compass, Volume 4, Issue 5, September 2009, pp. 780-792. https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00252.x

      

• 2008 “Descartes on Mathematical Essences”, [co-authored with Otávio Bueno], in Protosociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol.25, 2008, pp. 160-180. https://www.pdcnet.org/protosociology/content/protosociology_2008_0025_0160_0177

The volume is also published by Ontos Verlag http://www.ontos-verlag.de/Buchreihen-LOGOS-978-3-86838-009-5.php

• 2007 “The Myth of Cartesian Qualia”, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.88, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 181-207. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0114.2007.00286.x

• 2007 “A Teleological Account of Cartesian Sensations?” in Synthese, Vol. 156, 2007, pp. 317-342. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-006-0010-4

• 2005  “Prinz’s Problematic Proxytypes”, in The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol.55, No. 221, 2005, pp. 595-606. https://academic.oup.com/pq/article-abstract/55/221/594/1503843?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

• 2004 “Descartes on Sensory Misrepresentation: the Case of Materially False Ideas”, in the History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol.21, n3, 2004, pp. 261-280. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27744992

• 2004 “The Question-Begging Status of Locke’s Anti-Nativist Arguments”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol.69, n1, 2004, pp. 37-64. ATTACH PDF

• 2000 “On Fodor’s Claim that Classical Empiricists and Rationalists Agree on the Innateness of Ideas”, in ProtoSociology. An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol.14, 2000, pp. 240-269. https://www.pdcnet.org/protosociology/content/protosociology_2000_0014_0240_0269

Invited contributions

• 2016  “Locke’s Critique of Innatism” in Matthew Stuart (ed.), in The Blackwell Companion to Locke, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 157-174.

             https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118328705.ch8

• 2004 “Quine’s Holisms” [co-authored with Ernest Lepore], in Roger Gibson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Quine, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 65-90. Reprinted in Nirmalaya Narayan Chakraborty and Madhucchanda Sen (eds) Empiricism and The Two Dogmas, Rabindra Bharati University, 2006, pp.18-45. ATTACH PDF

• 1999 “Is There a Problem about Davidson’s Externalism vis-à-vis His Holism?”, in M. De Caro (ed.), Interpretations and Causes. New Perspectives on Donald Davidson’s Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 201-216. ATTACH PDF