Deborah Boyle Associate Professor  Department of Philosophy College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424-0001 office: 16 Glebe St., room 200 tel: (843) 953-7810 fax: (843) 953-6388 e-mail: boyled@cofc.edu

Deborah Boyle earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, and an M.A. and Ph.D.at the University of Pittsburgh (1999). Her primary research interests are in the history of modern philosophy, especially Descartes and Hume. Her most recent research focuses on the writings of two seventeenth-century women philosophers, Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish.

Selected Publications

Descartes on Innate Ideas. London: Continuum, 2009.

"Fame, Virtue, and Government: Margaret Cavendish on Ethics and Politics." Journal of the History of Ideas 67, no. 2 (April 2006).

"Margaret Cavendish's Nonfeminist Natural Philosophy." Configurations 12 (2004): 195-227.

"Hume on Animal Reason." Hume Studies 29, no.1 (April 2003): 3-28.

"Decartes on Innate Ideas." The Modern Schoolman 78 (November 2000): 35-50.

"Descartes's Tests for (Animal) Mind" (with Gerald J. Massey). Philosophical Topics 27, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 87-146.

"Descartes' Natural Light Reconsidered." Journal of the History of Philosophy 37, no. 4 (October 1999). 

"William James's Ethical Symphony." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34, no. 4 (Fall 1998).