M Folescu
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Historical Philosophy of Language and Mind (early modern)
Folescu, M. (2025). Lady Mary Shepherd’s epistemology. In K. Sylvan, J. Dancy, E. Sosa, & M. Steup (Eds.), A Companion to Epistemology (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 679-683). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119757832
Folescu, M. (2024). Thomas Reid on powers and abilities. In S. Bender & D. Perler (Eds.), Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy (pp. 326-342). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305316
Folescu M. (2022). Mary Shepherd on the role of proofs in our knowledge of first principles. Noûs. 56(2), 473–493. https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12365
Markie, P. and Folescu, M. (2021). Rationalism vs. empiricism. In E. N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationalism-empiricism
Folescu, M. (2021). Perception as a multi-stage process: A Reidian account. Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 19(1), 57-74. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsp.2021.0290
- Folescu, M. (2019). Relinquishing control: What Romanian de se attitude reports teach us about immunity to error through misidentification. In A. Capone, M. García-Carpintero, & A. Falzone (Eds.), Indirect Reports and Pragmatics in the World Languages. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, 19. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78771-8_14
Folescu, M. (2018). Thomas Reid's view of memorial conception. Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 16(3), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.3366/jsp.2018.0204
Folescu, M. (2018). Remembering events: A Reidean account of (episodic) memory. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 97(2), 304–321. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48579031
Folescu, M. (2018). Using benevolent affections to learn our duty. Mind, 127(506), 467–489. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzx004
Folescu, M. (2016), Thinking about different nonexistents of the same kind: Reid's account of the imagination and its nonexistent objects. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 93(3), 627-649. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12196
Folescu, M. (2015). Perceiving bodies immediately: Thomas Reid’s insight. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 32(1), 19–36. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43488113
Folescu, M. (2015). Perceptual and imaginative conception: The distinction Reid missed. In R. Copenhaver & J. T. Buras (Eds.), Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value: Essays in Honor of Reid's Tercentenary (pp. 52–74). Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thomas-reid-on-mind-knowledge-and-value-9780198733676. (pdf)
Folescu, M. (2015). Thomas Reid: Philosophy of Mind. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/reidmind/
Folescu, M. & Higginbotham, J. (2012). Two Takes on the De Se. In S. Prosser, F. Recanati (Eds.), Immunity to Error Through Misidentification: New Essays (pp. 46–62). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pdf)
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