Joseph Zepeda  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  |  Service  

Education:

• PhD History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, August 12, 2009
  Dissertation: Descartes and his Critics on the Vacuum and the Concept of Space Advisors: Karl Ameriks and Anja Jauernig
• B.A., Liberal Arts Thomas Aquinas College, May 15, 2004

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor - St. Mary's College of California, Integral Program (July 01, 2009 - Present)
• Instructor, Program of Liberal Studies - University of Notre Dame (January 10, 2007 - May 12, 2007)
  Natural Science Tutorial

Fellowships:

• Dissertation Year Fellowship - University of Notre Dame (August 2008)
• Presidential Fellowship - University of Notre Dame (August 2004)
  A competitive four-year fellowship, offered at entry to a small number of Ph.D. students across the graduate school.

Teacher-scholar development:

• Summer Intensive Greek Workshop - UC Berkeley, Department of Classics (June 2010)
  A ten-week, highly intensive course in Attic Greek, one of two of its kind in the U.S. I took the workshop to become able to participate in the Language components of the Integral curriculum, and it is also an upgrade to my research abilities.

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• "Descartes the arch-Aristotelian: The Theory of Place and Space.". Zepeda, Joseph (talk, speech or lecture)
  Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period
  (May 2013)
• Descartes on Transubstantiation and Local Motion: Theology and Common Sense as (Putative) Authorities. Zepeda, Joseph (talk, speech or lecture, paper)
  SCIENTIAE: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early-Modern World
  (April 18, 2013)
• "Reinterpreting Descartes on the Concept of Space. Zepeda, Joseph (talk, speech or lecture, paper)
  Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
  (April 2010)
• "Descartes' Analysis of the Concept of Space". Zepeda, Joseph (talk, speech or lecture, paper)
  Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
  (November 2008)
• Empiricism and Aristotelian Induction in Willam Harvey's 'De Motu Cordis'". Zepeda, Joseph (talk, speech or lecture)
  History of Science Society
  (November 2005)

Publications:

• Zepeda, Joseph. 2013. Review of Kurt Smith, Matter Matters: Metaphysics and Methodology in the Early Modern Period, ISIS
• Zepeda, Joseph. 2012. "'To whom my own glad debts are incalculable': St. Augustine and Human Loves in The Four Loves and Till We Have Faces, Journal of Inklings Studies
• Zepeda, Joseph. 2012. Review of David Cunning, Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol. 19, issue 6, pg.1216-1220