Dr. D'Amico (University of Buffalo) works in the areas of philosophy of social science and history of modern philosophy. His specific interests have lately been in reconstructing debates about philosophy of mind in the late 19th and early 20th century, the problem of law-like explanations for social phenomena, and criticisms of naturalized epistemology.
Selected Publications
- "Spreading Disease: A Controversy Concerning the Metaphysics of Disease" History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1999.
- "Three Kinds of Argument in Political Philosophy" Rechtstheorie 18 (1998) pp. 17-26.
- "Impossible Laws" Philosophy of the Social Sciences Vol. 27, No. 3, September, 1997, pp. 309-327.
- "Is Disease a Natural Kind?" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20: 551-569, 1995.
- "Sed Amentes Sunt Isti: Against Michel Foucault's Account of Cartesian Skepticism and Madness" Philosophical Forum Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 33-48.
Review-essays
- "Poverty of Cosmopolitanism" on Martha Nussbaum's For Love of Country in Telos No. 117, Fall 1999.
- "Holistic Republicanism" on two books by Philip Pettit in Telos No. 118, Winter 2000.
