Margaret Atherton
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Bryn Mawr College, A.B. 1965
Brandeis University, Ph.D., 1970

Fellowships and Awards

Graduate Fellowships, Brandeis University, 1965-68
N. E. H. Summer Grant, 1983
Graduate School Research Grant, Summer, 1984, Summer, 1991
National Science Foundation Grant, 1986-87
Fellowship, Wisconsin Institute for the Humanities, 1993-94
Fellowship, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, 1995-96
Fellowships, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1982-83, 1989-90, 1998-99
Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize, 1999
Grant from Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld to run international conference on Picture Perception, 1999

Professional Associations

American Philosophical Association
Executive Committee, Central Division, 1995-1998
Program Committee, Central Division, 1999-2000, 1994-1995, 2006-2007
Divisional Representative, American Philosophical Association Board of Directors, 2002-2006    

Society for Women in Philosophy
International Berkeley Society; Philosophy Associations Coordinator
American Eighteenth Century Society Program Committee, 1998-1999
Hume Society
British Society for the History of Philosophy  

Employment

New York University, Assistant Professor, 1970-1975
Brooklyn College, Assistant Professor, 1975-78
University of Maryland, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1978-79
University of Rochester, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1979-80
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Assistant Professor, 1980-83, Associate Professor, 1983-89, Professor, 1989-Present, Chair, 1990-93 , 2004-2006

Publications

Books

Berkeley's Revolution in Vision, Cornell University Press, 1990

Women Philosophers in the Early Modern Period, edited anthology, Hackett Publishing Co., 1994

The Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, edited anthology, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998

Looking into Pictures:  Reconceiving Pictorial Space, edited with Heiko Hecht and Robert Schwartz, M.I.T. Press, 2003

Berkeley, Blackwells, under contract

Articles.

“The Books are in the Study as Before”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Summer, 2008

“The Objects of Immediate Perception” in Collection on Berkeley, edited by Steven Daniel, Prometheus/Humanity Books, forthcoming

“Mary Astell”, “Margaret Cavendish”, “Catherine Cockburn”, “Mary Shepherd”, articles in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan, 2006

 “What Have We Learned when we Learn to See” in Festschrift for Vere Chapell, edited by Paul Hoffman, Gideon Yaffe and David Owen, Broadview, forthcoming

“Reading Lady Mary Shepherd” in Harvard Review of Philosophy, 2006

“Locke on Essences and Classifications” in Cambridge Companion to Locke’s Essay, edited by Lex Newman, Cambridge University Press, 2007

“Descartes among the British” in Receptions of Descartes, edited by Tad Schmalz, Routledge, 2005

Review of John J. Conley, The Suspicion of virtue and Jacqueline Broad, Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Centuries, Notre Dame Reviews, January, 2004

“Asking about the nature of colour” in Colour Perception:  Mind and the Physical World, edited by Rainer Mausfeld and Dieter Heyer, Oxford University Press, 2003

 “Green is like Bread:  the Nature of Descartes’ Account of Color Perception”” in Perception and Reality, edited by Ralph Schumacher, Mentis, 2003

 “Apprendre a voir:  Les enseignements de la Defense de la theorie de la vision”  in Berkeley:  perception et langage, edited by Dominique Berlioz, Presses universitaires de France, 2003

 “Why Berkeley Can Maintain that Snow is White”, Philosophical and Phenomenological Research, 2003

“Comment Berkeley peut-il soutenir que la neige et blanche?” in La Pensee scientifique de Berkeley, edited by Sabastien Charles, Presses de l’Universite Laval, 2003 (translation of ‘Why Berkeley can Maintain that Snow is white)

“Women Philosophers in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, in The Blackwell Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Steven Nadler, Blackwell, 2002 

“Mary Shepherd” in Thoemmes Dictionary of 19^th Century Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, 2002 

"Instigators of the Sensation Perception Distinction", Report 33/97 Forschungsgruppe, Perception and the Role of Evolutionary Internalized Regularities, Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung, University of Bielefeld, 1997 ; in Perceptual Theory:  Foundational Issues, edited by Rainer Mausfeld and Dieter Heyer, John Wiley, 2002.

“Seeing In-Pictures:  Historical Perspectives”, ZiF Mitteillungen, March, 2001  

 “Balls of Wax and Cans of Worms:  the Early History of Unit Perception” in From Fragments to Objects edited by Phillip Kellman and Thomas Shipley, Elsevier, 2001

“Feminist Critiques of Cartesianism”, Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge, 2000  

“Mary Astell”, “Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle”, “Damaris Cudworth, Lady Masham”, “Elizabeth of Bohemia”, Mary Shepherd”, brief articles in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Robert Audi, Cambridge University Press, 1999 

"Review of The Invisible World", Catherine Wilson, Dialogue, 1998

"Mr Abbott and Professor Fraser: A Nineteenth Century Debate about Berkeley's Theory of Vision", Report 19/96 Forschungsgruppe, Perception and the Role of Evolutionary Internalized Regularities, Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung, University of Bielefeld, 1996 ; Archiv fuer der Geschichte der Philosophie,  2003

"Review of Vision in Context", Teresa Brennan and Martin Jay, eds, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1998

"Review of British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 1998

" Berkeley's New Theory and its Reception", in The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley, ed Kenneth Winkler, Cambridge University Press,  2005

"How to Write the History of Vision: Understanding the Relationship between Berkeley and Descartes", in Sites of Vision: The Discursive Construction of Vision in the History of Philosophy, ed David Michael Levin, M. I. T. Press, 1997. Also: Report 4/1996 Forshungsgruppe Perception and the Role of Evolutionary Internalized Regularities, Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Forschung, University of Bielefeld, 1996

"Lady Mary Shepherd's Case against George Berkeley", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 4, no 2, Fall 1996

" Berkeley without God", in Berkeley's Metaphysics: Analytical and Historical Essays, ed. Robert Muehlmann, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995

"'Ideas in the Mind, Qualities in Bodies': Some distinctive features of Locke's account of primary and secondary qualities", in Ideas in Seventeenth Century Philosophy, eds. Phillip D. Cummins and Guenter Zoeller, Ridgeview Publishing, 1993

"Can One Do the History of Philosophy as a Feminist?", APA Newsletter on Feminism, Louise Antony and Diana Meyer, eds. Fall 1993

Review of Philip Walmsley, The Rhetoric of Berkeley's Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Studies, 1994

"Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason", in A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, ed Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt, Westview Press, 1992; Also: Working Papers, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, UW-Milwaukee, Fall-Winter, 1990-91, Working Paper #6

"Mechanism, Essentialism and Corpuscularianism in Berkeley and Locke", Journal of the History of Philosophy, January, 1991

" Berkeley's Anti-Abstractionism", in Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley, edited by Ernest Sosa, Reidel, 1987; Reprinted in: Berkeley on Abstraction and Abstract Ideas, edited by Willis Doney, Garland Publishing Inc., 1988

"Suppose I am Pricked with a Pin", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 65, 1984

"Knowledge of Substance and Knowledge of Science in Locke's Essay", History of Philosophy Quarterly, Vol 1 No. 4, September 1984

"The Inessentiality of Lockean Essences", Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XIV, No 2, June 1984; Reprinted in: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Vere Chappell, Garland Publishing Inc, 1992; Reprinted in: Locke, edited by Vere Chappell, Oxford University Press, 1998

"Locke and the Issue over Innateness", in How Many Questions?, edited by Isaac Levi, Charles Parsons, Leigh Cauman and Robert Schwartz, Hackett Publishing Co., 1983; Reprinted in: Locke, edited by Vere Chappell, Oxford University Press, 1998

"Education and Equality", in Philosophy, Women and Sports, edited by Betsy Postow, Scarecrow Press, 1983

"The Coherence of Berkeley's Theory of Mental Substance," Philosophical and Phenomenological Research, March, 1983; Reprinted in: Critical and Interpretive Essays on Berkeley, edited by Walter Creery, Croom Holm Publisher, Inc., 1991

"Talk to the Animals" (with Robert Schwartz), in Language in Primates, edited by Hugh Wilder and Judith deLuce, Springer-Verlag, 1983

"Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. VIII, 1983; Reprinted in: Essays in Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Vere Chappell, Garland Publishing, 1992

"On Tenure", (with Robert Schwartz and Sidney Morgenbesser), The Philosophical Forum, Vol X: 2-4

"Review of George Pitcher, Berkeley”, Journal of Philosophy, January, 1979

"The Scope of Cognitivism", The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 1 No 2

"The Artificiality of Computer Models", The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 1 No 1

"The Relationship between Rationality and Autonomy in Education", Educational Theory, Spring, 1978

Review of The IQ Controversy, edited by N.J.Block and Gerald Dworkin, Cross Currents, Summer 1978

"Review of Education and the Development of Reason", edited by R.F. Dearden, P.H. Hirst, and R. S. Peters, Journal of Philosophy, 1975

"Discovery as a Method of Teaching", 1974 Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society, edited by Michael Parsons.

"Linguistic Innateness and its Evidence" (with Robert Schwartz), Journal of Philosophy, March, 1974; Reprinted in: Innate Ideas, S. Stich ed., University of California Press, 1975; Reprinted in: Language in Primates, Hugh Wilder and Judith deLuce eds., Springer-Verlag, 1983

"Tacit Knowledge and Innateness", The Philosophical Forum, 3, 1972

"Review of C. Wade Savage, The Measurement of Sensation", Journal of Philosophy , 1972

"Practice, Purpose and Pedagogy" (with Robert Schwartz), Studies in Philosophy and Education, Fall, 1970

Selected Papers and Presentations

“Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge”, OSU/Maribor/Rijeka conference on Epistemology and Metaphysics, Inter-University Conference Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia , June, 2007

“Berkeleianism and the Denial of Matter”, Midatlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy”, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April, 2007

“Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge” Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California, March, 2007

“Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge” Conference in memory of John Dolan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October, 2006

“Berkeleianism and the Denial of Matter”, Conference on Berkeley, Charles University, Prague, September 2006

“’The Books are in the Study as Before’”, Philosophy Department, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, November, 2005

“Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge”, International Berkeley Conference, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia , Septermber, 2005

“Where are the Women in (the History of ) Philosophy?”. Public Lecture Series, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May, 2005

“Locke on Sensitive Knowledge”, Conference on Perception, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May, 2005

“ Reading Mary Shepherd”, Tulane University, New Orleans, March, 2003

“The Immediate Object of Perception”, Berkeley International Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, April, 2003

“The Books are in the Study as Before’:  Berkeley’s Claims about the Perception of Physical Objects”, Berkeley Today, International Conference, Universite de Rennes, Rennes, France , October, 2003

“Pappas on Immediate Perception”, International Berkeley Society meeting, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December, 2002

“Descartes among the English” paper presented to the Philosophy Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX, October 2002

“Reading Lady Mary Shepherd”, paper presented to Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Lubbock, TX, October, 2002

“When was Analytic Philosophy the Death of the History of Philosophy”, British Society for the History of Philosophy Conference on Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy, St Anne’s College, Oxford, April 2002

“Descartes among the English”, Conference on the Reception of Descartes, Duke University, April, 2002

“Descartes among the English”, Conference on Perception and Mental Representation, Humboldt University, Berlin, October, 2001 

“Why Berkeley Can Maintain the Snow is White”, Conference on Berkeley, Canadian Philosophical Association, Quebec City, PQ, Canada , May, 2001

“The Gents Step out and the Ladies Step in” invited paper, Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, 2000

“Why Berkeley (and Only Berkeley) Can Maintain that Snow is White”, Philosophy Department, University of Chicago”, May, 2000 

“Historical Perspectives:  Seeing “in-Pictures” “, Reconceiving Space Perception Conference, Zentrum fuer Interdisziplinaere Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, June, 2000 

“Women Philosophers with Rooms of their Own” paper read to the Philosophy Department and Center for Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, November 15, 1999 

"Lessons Learned from The Theory of Vision Vindicated," invited paper delivered at 10^th Conference on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland , July, 1999

"Color Perception, Idealism and Scientific Realism," invited paper delivered at Berkeley Conference, Newport, RI, April, 1999

"Thinking through the History of the Sensation/Perception Distinction", paper presented at conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy", University of Leeds, April, 1998

"Talking about the Great, Dead Women Philosophers: Two Case Studies", talk delivered to Res Cogitans, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, November, 1997

"Instigators of the Sensation/Perception Distinction", conference on Foundations of Perceptual Theory, Zentrum fuer Interdisziplinaere Forschung, University of Bielefeld, June, 1997

"Mr Abbott and Prof. Fraser", paper presented to the Midwest Seminar
in Early Modern Philosophy, Chicago, May, 1997

"Mr Abbott and Professor Fraser", Philosophy Department, Ohio State
University, November, 1997

"Reading Lady Mary Shepherd", Philosophy Department, Northern Illinois University, October, 1996

"Mr Abbott and Prof. Fraser", Philosophy Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, September, 1996

"Reading Lady Mary Shepherd", Panel on Recent Work in the History of Women in Philosophy, 1996 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June, 1996

"Mr Abbott and Prof. Fraser", Northwest Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Philosophy Society, University of Keele, May, 1996

"How to Write the History of Vision", ZiF Colloquium Series, University of Bielefeld, November, 1995

" Berkeley without God", Philosophy Department, Marquette University, 1995

Jesseph on Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics", American Philosophical Association, December, 1994

" Berkeley without God", Philosophy Department, Ohio State University, 1993

"How not to do the History of Vision", Wisconsin Institute for the Humanities, 1994

" Berkeley without God", Berkeley Conference, St Anne's College, Oxford University, 1993

"Lady Mary Shepherd and Berkeley", Invited paper, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, IL 1993

"Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason", Philosophy Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991

Respondent, Session on Berkeley's Revolution in Vision, American Philosophical Association Meetings, Central Division, Chicago, IL 1991

" Berkeley's New Theory and Immaterialism", Philosophy Department, University of Western Ontario, 1991

" Berkeley's New Theory and Immaterialism", Philosophy Department, University of Windsor, 1991

"Mechanism, Essentialism and Corpuscularianism", Philosophy Department, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1990

"Locke and the Empiricist Tradition", Philosophy Department, Tufts University, 1990

"Mechanism, Essentialism and Corpuscularianism", Philosophy Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1990

Commentator, Berkeley and the Argument for other Minds, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 1989

Commentator, Heterogeneity in Berkeley, Chapel Hill Colloquium, University of North Carolina, 1989

"The New Theory and Immaterialism", invited paper, Central Division , American Philosophical Association, 1989

"Ideas in the Mind, Qualities in Bodies, Iowa Ideas Conference, University of Iowa, 1989

"Mechanism, Essentialism and Corpuscularianism in Berkeley and Locke", Philosophy Department, University of Colorado, 1988

"Berkeley, Locke and Corpuscularian Science", Philosophy Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1986

Commentator, Invited Session on Locke and Substance", Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, 1986

Commentator, Feminist Epistemology, Delaware Valley Society for Women in Philosophy, 1986

" Berkeley's Anti-Abstractionism', International Berkeley Society Conference, Newport, RI 1985

" Berkeley's Anti-Abstractionism", Western Michigan Berkeley Conference, Kalamazoo, MI 1985

"Locke, Reid and Representationalism", Conference on Consciousness and the Empiricist Tradition, University of South Carolina, 1985

"Locke, Berkeley and Corpuscularian Science", Sievert Lecture Series, University of Iowa, 1985

Commentator, Berkeley on Ideas, Western Division, American Philosophical Association, 1984

Commentator, Berkeley and Blind Agency, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 1984

"The Inessentiality of Lockean Essences", Philosophy Department, University of Chicago, 1983

"The Inessentiality of Lockean Essences", Philosophy Department, Marquette University, 1982

"Work of One's Own", Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of  Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1982

Commentator, Session on Descartes, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, 1981

"The Inessentiality of Lockean Essences", Philosophy Department, University of Rochester, 1981

"Locke's Issue over Innateness", Western Division, American Philosophical Association, 1981

"Locke's Theory of Personal Identity", Invited Session, Eastern Division,  American Philosophical Association, 1979

updated 6/8/2005