CURRICULUM VITAE
Harry McFarland BRACKEN
Born 12 March 1926. Married. US Navy 1943-46.
Address: 9107 East Avenida Las Noches, Apache Junction, AZ 85219.
Telephone: (480) 671-4605.
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EDUCATION
Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, 194649.
BA (Philosophy), 1949.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 194951 (three terms).
MA (Philosophy), 1954.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, 195456.
PhD (Philosophy), 1956.
TEACHING POSITIONS
1950 Teaching Assistant, Philosophy, The Johns Hopkins University.
195455 Teaching Assistant, Philosophy, University of Iowa.
195556 Instructor (parttime), Philosophy, Iowa.
195657 Instructor, Philosophy, Iowa.
195761 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Iowa.
196163 Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
196364 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University, Tempe.
196466 Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State.
1966-91 Professor of Philosophy, McGill University.
1991--- Professor of Philosophy (Retired), McGill University.
Summers of 1966 & 1967 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Hartford.
1970 Professor of Philosophy (tenure), University of California, SanDiego.
197273 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin.
197273 Visiting Professor of Metaphysics, University College, National University of Ireland, Dublin.
1988-95 Adjunct member, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte; Vakgroep Filosofie en Interdisciplinariteit, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam.
1990-95 Adjunct member, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
1995--- Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
196667 Acting Chairman, Department of Philosophy, McGill University.
196772 Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy, McGill University.
1968-72 Chairman, Jewish Studies, McGill University.
198081 Acting Chairman, Department of Philosophy, McGill University.
198283 Acting Director, Irish Studies, McGill University.
Editorial Consultant, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 19701984.
Consulting Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas, 1976-78.
Editorial Board, Berkeley Newsletter, 1985.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS
1. The Early Reception of Berkeley's Immaterialism: 17101733. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1959, x + 123 pp.
la. The Early Reception of Berkeley's Immaterialism: 17101733. Revised edition. No. 10 in the series "Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Ideés," The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1965. xiv + 130 pp.
2. Berkeley. London: Macmillan, 1974. 173 pp.
3. Mind and Language: Essays on Descartes and Chomsky. Dordrecht: FORIS, 1983. No. 14 in the series, "Publications in Language Sciences". xiv + 154 pp.
4. Freedom of Speech: Words Are Not Deeds. Westport CT: Praeger [Greenwood], 1994. xii + 159.
5. Descartes. Oxford: Oneworld, 2002. viii + 152.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
1. "Berkeley and Chambers," Journal of the History of Ideas, XVII (1956), 120126.
2. "Andrew Baxter, Critic of Berkeley," Journal of the History of Ideas, XVIII (1957), 183204.
3. "Berkeley's Realisms," Philosophical Quarterly, VIII (1958), 4153.
4. "Berkeley and Mental Acts," Theoria, XXVI (l960), 140146.
5. "Berkeley on the Immortality of the Soul," The Modern Schoolman, XXXVII (l960), (i) 7794; (ii) 197212.
6. "LockeBerkeleyHume: The End of a Triumvirate," Spanish version, Revista de filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica, II (1960), 351355.
6a. "" English version, Indian Journal of Philosophy, III (1961), 18.
7. Review of D.M. Armstrong, Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A Critical Examination, in The Modern Schoolman, XXXIX (1962), 287289.
8. "Berkeley and Malebranche on Ideas," The Modern Schoolman, XLI (1963), 115.
9. "Some Problems of Substance Among the Cartesians," American Philosophical Quarterly, I (1964), 129137.
10. "Bayle Not a Sceptic?" Journal of the History of Ideas, XXV (1964), 169180.
ll. Articles: "Antoine Arnauld," and "Pierre Nicole," Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
l2. Review of Etienne Gilson and Thomas Langan, Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, II (1964), 99100.
13. "Substance in Berkeley," in New Studies in Berkeley's Philosophy, edited by Warren Steinkraus. New York: Rinehart and Winston, 1966. pp. 8597. Reprinted, Washington: University Press of America, 1981.
14. Review of Beatrice K. Rome, The Philosophy of Malebranche, in the Philosophical Quarterly, XVI (1966), 7375.
15. "Thomas Reid: A Philosopher of UnCommon Sense," Introduction to The Philosophical Works of Thomas Reid, edited by Sir William Hamilton, reprint edition. Hildesheim: Georg Olms. 1967, pp. xviixxix.
16. "Innate Ideas: Then and Now," Dialogue, VI (1967), 334346.
17. "Culture vs. Jewish Culture," Viewpoints: Canadian Jewish Quarterly, III (No.4) (1968), 4248.
18. Review of A.D. Ritchie, George Berkeley, A Reappraisal, in Dialogue, VII (19689), 674675.
19. "Chomsky's Variations on a Theme by Descartes," Journal of the History of Philosophy, VIII (1970), 181192.
20. "Chomsky's Language and Mind," in Dialogue, IX (1970), 236 247.
21. Review of John Lyons, Chomsky, in Dialogue, X (1971), 808 810.
22. "Chomsky's Cartesianism," Language Sciences, No. 22, October, 1971, 1117.
23. "DescartesOrwellChomsky: Three Philosophers of the Demonic," The Human Context, IV (1972), 523536 (French version, 53752).
24. Review of George J. Stack, Berkeley's Philosophy of Perception, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, X (1972), 480481.
25. Review of Paul J. Olscamp, The Moral Philosophy of George Berkeley, in Eighteenth Century Studies, VI (1973), 396397.
26. "Minds and Learning: the Chomskian Revolution," Metaphilosophy, IV (1973), 229245.
27. "Essence, Accident, and Race," Hermathena, CXVI (1973), 81-96.
28. Review of Leon Poliakov, The Aryan Myth, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, X111 (1975), 401402.
29. Review of I.C. Tipton, Berkeley: The Philosophy of Immaterialism, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, XIV (1976), 235236.
30. "Berkeley: Irish Cartesian," Philosophical Studies (Dublin), XXIV (1976), 3951.
31. "Philosophy and Racism," Philosophia, VIII (1978), 241260.
32. "Bayle, Berkeley, and Hume," EighteenthCentury Studies, XI (19778), 227-245.
33. "Minds and Oaths," Dialogue, XVII (1978), 209227.
34. Review of Berkeley's Philosophical Commentaries, new edition (1976) by George H. Thomas. In Journal of the History of Philosophy, XVII (1979), 349.
35. Review of George Pitcher, Berkeley, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, XXX (1979), 297301.
36. Review of Margaret Dauler Wilson, Descartes, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. XXXI (1980), 307310.
37. Review of Edwin S. Gaustad, George Berkeley in America, in Irish Historical Studies, XXII (1980), 1867.
38. Review of Geoffrey Sampson, Liberty and Language, in Dialogue, XX (1981), 771783.
39. Round Table contribution, "The concept of human nature in Chomsky, "Quaderni Di Semantica, II (1981), 2359; 2603.
40. Review of Nicolas Malebranche, The Search After Truth, translated by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp, with a Philosophical Commentary by Thomas M. Lennon. In Review of Metaphysics, XXXV (1981), 3989.
41. "Hume on the `Distinction of Reason'" Hume Studies, X (1984), 89108.
41a. Reprinted in David Hume: Critical Assessments, ed. Stanley Tweyman. London: Routledge, 1995. Vol. I, 303-315.
42. "Berkeley," in The Irish Mind, ed. Richard Kearney. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1985. pp. 107118.
43. "Descartes," in New Trends in Philosophy, eds. Asa Kasher and Shalom Lappin. Tel Aviv: Yachdav United Publishers, 1985. 21738.
44. Review of Charles J. McCracken, Malebranche and British Philosophy, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, XXIII (1985), 4313.
45. "Realism and Greek Philosophy: What Berkeley Saw and Burnyeat Missed," Hermathena, CXXXI (1985), 63-80. Reprinted in George Berkeley: Essays and Replies. ed. David Berman. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1985.
46. Review of J.O. Urmson, Berkeley, in Idealistic Studies, XV (1985), 1767.
47. Review of Anthony Kenny, Descartes: Philosophical Letters, in International Studies in Philosophy, XVIII (1986), 73-4.
48. Review of Thomas Lennon, et al., (eds.) Problems of Cartesianism, in International Studies in Philosophy, XIX (1987), 89-90.
49. "On Some Points in Bayle, Berkeley, and Hume," History of Philosophy Quarterly, IV (1987), 435-46.
50. "Bishop Berkeley's Messianism," in Millenarianism and Messianism in English Literature and Thought; 1650-1800, ed. Richard H. Popkin (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988), 65-80.
51. Review of Bertil Belfrage (ed.) Berkeley's Manuscript Introduction in Journal of the History of Philosophy, XXVIII (1990), 455-6.
52. Reviews of John W. Yolton, Thinking Matter and Perceptual Acquaintance, in International Studies in Philosophy, XXI (1989), 128-9.
53. "Pierre Bayle and Freedom of Speech," in Truth and Tolerance, ARC Supplement # 4, ed. E. J. Furcha. Montreal: McGill Faculty of Religious Studies, 1990. 28-41.
54. "Some Reflections on Our Sceptical Crisis," in Knowledge and Language, Vol. I, From Orwell's Problem to Plato's Problem, eds. Eric Reuland and Werner Abraham. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993. 59-70.
55. "The Malebranche-Arnauld debate: philosophical or ideological," in Malebranche: His Philosophical Critics and Successors, ed. by Stuart Brown. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1991. 35-48.
56. "Bayle's Attack on Natural Theology: the case of Christian Pyrrhonism," in Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, eds. Richard H. Popkin and Arjo Vanderjagt. Leiden: Brill, 1993. 254-266.
57. "Toleration Theories: Bayle vs. Locke," in The Notion of Tolerance and Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky. eds. Ethel Groffier and Michel Paradis. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1991. 1-11.
58. Review of Colin Murray Turbayne, Metaphors for the Mind: the Creative Mind and Its Origins, in International Studies in Philosophy, XXVI (1994), 151.
59. Review of Maurice Olender, The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century, in Studies in Language, XVIII (1994), 263-4.
60. Review of Steven Nadler, Malebranche & Ideas, in International Studies in Philosophy, XXVII (1995), 124-126.
61. Review of Theo Verbeek, Descartes and Dutch Philosophy: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy, 1637-1650, in International Studies in Philosophy, XXVII (1995), 147.
62. "Pierre Jurieu: The Politics of Prophecy," to appear in Continental Millenarianism, ed. John Christian Laursen.
63. Articles: "René Descartes", "Nicolas Malebranche", "George Berkeley", "Thomas Reid", in The Columbia History of Western Philosophy. ed. Richard H. Popkin. New York: Columbia, 1999.
64. "Empiricism / Rationalism," to appear in Proceedings of the World Congress on Mulla Sadra, Tehran, 1999.
65. Review of Thomas M. Lennon, Reading Bayle, to appear in International
Studies in Philosophy.
66. Review of John W. Yolton, Realism and Appearances: An Essay in Ontology.
to appear in International Studies in Philosophy.
67. Review of Bayle: Political Writings, ed. with an introduction by Sally L. Jenkinson, to appear in International Studies in Philosophy.
68. Review of Janet Broughton, Descartes's Method of Doubt, in Philosophy Now, October/November 2003. pp. 42-43.
69. "Popkin's Discovery of Berkeley's Anti-Pyrrhonism," Celebration of Popkin's Eigthieth Birthday, Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, January 9th, 2004.
70. "Berkeley and Scepticism: Berkeley's Diagnosis of Scepticism and His Proposed Cure," in Skepticism in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought: New Interpretations. ed. José R. Maia Neto & Richard H. Popkin, Amherst NY: Humanity Books, 2004.