LAURENCE DAVIS CARLIN
Brief Curriculum Vitae

(Full CV available upon request.)

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Department of Philosophy 
800 Algoma Blvd.       
Oshkosh, WI  54901
(920) 424-1368
E-mail: carlin@uwosh.edu  

 
EDUCATION
Rice University, Ph.D. in Philosophy, May 2000.
Rice University, M.A. in Philosophy, 1998. 
University of Houston, M.A. in Philosophy, 1995.
Franklin and Marshall College, B.A., Philosophy, 1993.
 
POSITIONS HELD
Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2011–present.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2006–present.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 2000–06.
Instructor, Rice University, 1998–2000.
Instructor, University of Houston, 1998–2000.
 
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
History of Modern Philosophy and Science (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
 
 
SELECTED PUBLICATION

Book

The Empiricists: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Press, 2009)
[This is a brief introduction to the great empiricist movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.]

Some Articles

• "The Non-Aristotelian Novelty of Leibniz's Teleology" The Leibniz Review 21, 2012, 69-90.
  
  
• "Boyle's Teleological Mechanism and the Myth of Immanent Teleology," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 43, 2012, 54-63.
  
  
• "The Importance of Teleology for Boyle's Natural Philosophy," British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19, 2011, 663-680.
  
  
• "Selecting a Phenomenalism: Leibniz, Berkeley, and the Science of Happiness," Journal of the History of Ideas 68 (1), 2007, 57-78.
  

• “Leibniz and Berkeley on Teleological Intelligibility,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 23 (2), 2006, 151-169.
  
  
• “Leibniz on Final Causes,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 44 (2), 2006, 217-233.
  
  
• “Leibniz on Conatus, Causation, and Freedom,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85 (4), 2004, 365–379.
  
  
• “Can Any Divine Punishment Be Morally Justified?,” Philo 6 (2), 2003, 280–298.
  
  
• "Reward and Punishment in the Best Possible World: Leibniz's Theory of Natural Retribution," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 60 (2), 2002, 139–160.
  
  
• “Leibniz’s Great Chain of Being,” Studia Leibnitiana 32(2), 2000, 131–150.
  
  
• “On the Very Concept of Harmony in Leibniz,” The Review of Metaphysics 54(1), 2000, 99–125.
  
  
• “Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi,” The Leibniz Review 7, December 1997, 1–24.
  

Some Electronic Encyclopedia Articles

• “Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind” (with Mark Kulstad), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, http://plato.stanford.edu. Authored sections “Matter and Thought,” “Mind-Body Causation,” and “Language and Mind.”
  
  
• "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Causation," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
2007           National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant, Teleology in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy

2005           Winner of the Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition, “Leibniz and Berkeley on Phenomenalism and Teleology.”
 
2004           Selected Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, Philosophy, Science and Theology in the Seventeenth Century.
 
2003           Selected Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Leibniz and His Contemporaries.
 
1997           Winner of the annual Leibniz Society International Essay Competition, “Infinite Accumulations and Pantheistic Implications: Leibniz and the Anima Mundi.”
 

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