Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Ottawa (2002)
Maîtrise, Philosophy, Nancy II (1995)
Professor Malinowski-Charles has interests in early modern philosophy, ethics, and the history of aesthetics. Her most recent research dealt particularly with Spinoza, Descartes and Malebranche. She has obtained a Research Incentive Fund in order to work on the research project entitled: “Passions and Ethics in Post-Cartesian Philosophy, 1650-1700.” She is currently preparing an edition of François Lamy's _De la connaissance de soi-même_ for Vrin, a book dealing with questions of epistemology and metaphysics. Prof. Malinowski-Charles is on leave in 2007-8.
Selected Bibliography
Books and edited volumes:
• Affects et conscience chez Spinoza. L'automatisme dans le progrès éthique. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag (2004).
• (Ed.), Figures du sentiment: morale, politique et esthétique à l'époque moderne. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval (2003).
Articles:
• “Conscience de soi et épistémologie du sentiment: l’originalité de François Lamy,” forthcoming in Libertinage et philosophie au XVIIe siècle (Presses de l’Université de Saint-Etienne, France), 2008.
• “Descartes et la clarté du sentiment,” Giornale Critico della Filosofia Italiana, 85/3 (2006), 469-88.
• “Goût et jugement des sens chez Baumgarten,” Revue Germanique internationale, 2006 (4), 59-72.
• “Baumgarten et le rôle de l’intuition dans les débuts de l’esthétique,” Études Philosophiques, 2005 (4), 105-126.
• “Habitude, connaissance et vertu chez Spinoza,” Dialogue 43/1 (2004), 99-124.
• “The Circle of Adequate Knowledge: Notes on Reason and Intuition in Spinoza,” in Daniel Garber and Steven Nadler, eds., Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2003), 139-63.
Recent Courses
• History of Modern Philosophy
• Graduate seminar on Malebranche
• Honors course: “Reason or passion? Problems in Defining the Modern Subject”
• The Rationalists
Contact Information*
Email: scharles@temple.edu
Office: 714 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Temple University
Anderson Hall, 7th floor
1114 W. Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-2936
*On leave in 2007-08