Desmond Clarke

Desmond M. Clarke (17 January 1942 – 17 September 2016) was an author and professor of philosophy at University College Cork (UCC), in Cork, Ireland. His research interests lay predominantly in the 17th century, on such topics as the history of philosophy and theories of science - with a specific interest in the writings of René Descartes, as well as contemporary church/state relations, human rights, and nationalism. He was co-editor of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series, and he has translated and written an introduction for the Penguin edition of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. He retired from his position as Professor of Philosophy in 2006.[1]

For the Irish librarian and writer, see Desmond Clarke (writer).

Clarke was the founder and a general editor of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy – 76 volumes have been published with new translations of non-English texts from ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Italian and German. He died on 17 September 2016.[2]

Desmond after winning a scholarship was educated at Synge Street CBS,[3] completing his leaving certificate, he joined the Capuchin Order, after earning a BSc at UCC, he gained a licentiate of theology from the University of Lyon, France and a bachelor of philosophy at University of Leuven, Belgium. He completed his PhD in the University of Notre Dame, where he met his future wife.

Publications
  • Descartes' Concept of Scientific Explanation, in J. Cottingham, ed. Descartes (Oxford Readings in Philosophy; Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 259–80.
  • 'Nation, State and Nationality in the Irish Constitution', Ir. Law Times, 16 (1998), 252-6.
  • Education, the State, and Sectarian Schools, in T. Murphy and P. Twomey, eds. Ireland's Evolving Constitution (Oxford: Hart, 1998), pp. 65–77.
  • Faith and Reason in the Thought of Moise Amyraut, in A. P. Coudert, et al. eds. Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999), pp. 145–59.
  • (with C. Jones), eds. The Rights of Nations: Nations and Nationalism in a Changing World (New York: St. Martin's Press, and Cork University Press, 1999).
  • René Descartes, Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings, trans. Clarke (Penguin, 1998); René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Related Writings, trans. Clarke (Penguin, 1999).
  • Causal powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche, in Stephen Gaukroger, ed. Descartes' Natural Philosophy (Routledge, 2000), 131 -48.
  • Cartesianism, in W. Applebaum, ed. Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution (Garland, 2000), 122-24.
  • 'Constitutional Bootstrapping: the Irish Nation', Ir. Law Times, 18 (2000), 74-77
  • 'Nationalism, the Irish Constitution, and Multicultural Citizenship', Northern Ireland Legal Quart. 51 (2000), 100-19.
  • 'Exorcising Ryle's Ghost from Cartesian Metaphysics', Philosophical Inquiry, 23 (2001), 27-36.
  • Explanation, Consciousness and Cartesian Dualism, in R.E. Auxier and L.E. Hahn, eds., The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene (Library of Living Philosophers, vol. xxix). Chicago and La Salle, III.; Open Court, 2002, pp. 471–85.
  • Descartes's Theory of Mind (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003)
  • 'Pascal's Philosophy of Science' in N. Hammond, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Pascal (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 102-121.
  • Descartes : A Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2005).[4]
  • French Philosophy, 1572–1675 (Oxford University Press, 2016).

References
  1. "Desmond Clarke staff page at UCC". University College Cork. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  2. "Desmond M Clarke: Fearless philosopher and distinguished scholar". Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  3. "Desmond M Clarke: Fearless philosopher and distinguished scholar". The Irish Times. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  4. Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania (2006-11-08). "Desmond M. Clarke: Descartes - a Biography". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
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