John Carriero – Epistemology Past and Present | Backdoor Broadcasting Company

Event Date: 18 February 2013
Room 22/26
Senate House
University of London
London WC1E 7HU

Professor John Carriero (UCLA) – Epistemology Past and Present

John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Between two Worlds: a Reading of Descartes’s “Meditations” (2009) and co-editor with Janet Broughton of A Companion to Descartes (2008). He is especially interested in understanding early modern rationalist thought as the outgrowth of the seventeenth-century collision between the new science and Aristotelianism. His essays “Spinoza on Final Causality” (2005) and “Substance and Ends” (2008) are two significant contributions to that project.