M Folescu

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Associate Professor
232 Middlebush Hall
Faculty
Education

Ph.D.  University of Southern California

Research

Historical Philosophy of Language and Mind (early modern)

Select Publications

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 

  1. 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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