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Jorge Secada

JORGE SECADA, associate professor (Ph.D., Cambridge) was National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York College at Potsdam (1998), Visiting Professor at the University de Santiago de Compostela (1999), Visiting Professor at the American University at Beirut (2004), and Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Carabobo (2005). Jorge Secada specializes in Descartes and the history of modern philosophy, especially the relationship between late medieval and early modern philosophy, and also late scholastic ethics and political philosophy. He has recently written the lengthy introductory study to the Spanish translation of Martial Gueroult's classic study of Descartes, Descartes selon l'ordre des raisons (Descartes segun el orden de las razones, MonteAvila Editores, Caracas, 2006). He is currently working on book-length studies of the philosophy of Francisco Suarez, and the ontology of relations in early modern philosophy. SELECT PUBLICATIONS: "Descartes on Substance," in S. Gaukroger (ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Descartes (2005). "Learning to Understand Descartes," The Philosophical Quarterly (2003). "September 11th and the ethics of violence" in Jon L. Berquist (ed.), Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics and the New War (St. Louis, 2002) (Significantly expanded Spanish translation in Themis, 2003). Cartesian Metaphysics: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy (Cambridge, 2000). "Berkeley y el idealismo," in J. Echeverria (ed.) Del Renacimiento a la Ilustracion II (Madrid, 2000). "Las ideas de Descartes," Archivos de la Sociedad Peruana de Filosofia (1996). "Descartes y la escolastica," Arete (1995). "La miseria del liberalismo criollo," Hueso Humero (1991). "Descartes on Time and Causality," The Philosophical Review (1990).