Dr. John C. McCarthy
Associate Professor
 

 

Research Interests

Early modern philosophy, political philosophy, phenomenology

 

 

Selected Publications  

Books:

Editor, Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998.

 

Articles:

“Desire, Recollection, and Speech:  On Augustine’s Confessions I,1.” Communio:  International Catholic Review 14 (1987): 146-57.

 

“Parts, Wholes, and the Forms of Life:  Husserl and the New Biology.” In Phenomenology of Natural Science, edited by L. Hardy and L. Embree, 135-56.  Dordrecht and Boston:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992. Also, in translation, “Parties, touts, et formes de la vie: Husserl et la nouvelle biologie.” Recherches Husserlienne 3 (1995): 23-49.

 

“How Knowing the World Completes the World: A Note on Aquinas and Husserl.”  Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 57 (1993): 71-86.

 

“Pascal on Certainty and Utility.” Interpretation: a journal of political philosophy 22 (1994): 247-69.  Also, in substantially revised form, in Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason, edited by John C. McCarthy, 92-123. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press, 1998.

 

“Some Preliminary Remarks on ‘Cognitive Interest’ in Husserlian Phenomenology.” Husserl Studies 11 (1994-1995): 135-52.

 

“The Being of the Maybe: Husserl on Doubting.”  Man and World 28 (1995): 261-281.

 

“Keeping up Appearances: the Moral Philosophy of Robert Sokolowski.”  In The Truthful and the Good.  Essays in Honor of Robert Sokolowski, edited by John Drummond and James Hart, 121-44. Dordrecht and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

 

“Introduction.” Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason, 1-21. Edited by John C. McCarthy. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998.

 

“The Descent of Science.” Atti del Convegno Internazionale "Origine della Vita Intelligente nell'Universo," edited by Roberto Columbo, et al, 329-54. Como, Italy: Edizioni New Press, 1999. Also in revised form, in The Review of Metaphysics 52 (June 1999): 835-66.

 

“Keeping Modern Man in Mind.” Review essay of Pierre Manent's The City of Man. Telos 116 (Summer 1999): 175-87.