Affiliated Lecturers and College Teaching Officers

Marina Frasca-Spada

Fellow, Corpus Christi College
Co-Editor of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

Research interests: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; history of philosophy of science from Descartes to Kant; reading and teaching natural and moral philosophies in the eighteenth century; philosophy and literature.

Selected publications

• Space and the Self in Hume's 'Treatise', Cambridge University Press, 1998; paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Books and Sciences in History, co-edited with N. Jardine, Cambridge University Press, 2000
• Impressions of Hume, co-edited with P.J.E. Kail, Oxford University Press, 2005
• 'Splendours and Miseries of the Science Wars', editorial article in collaboration with N. Jardine, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 28/2 (June 1997), 219-35
• 'The Science and Conversation of Human Nature', in W. Clark, J. Golinski and S. Schaffer (eds), The Sciences in Enlightened Europe, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 218-45
• 'Hume on sense impressions and objects', in M. Heidelberger and D. Stadler (eds), History of Philosophy of Science. New Trends and Perspectives, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 9/2001, 13-24
• 'Belief and animal spirits in Hume's Treatise', Eighteenth-Century Thought 1 (2003), 151-169