Mark Glouberman

BA (McGill), B.Phil (Oxford), D.Phil (Oxford)
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Dr. Mark Glouberman did his post-graduate work at Oxford. This was back when the Beatles were in their early ascendency and ordinary language philosophy was in flower. His favourite Beatles album is Rubber Soul (1965) and his favourite philosophical book is P. F. Strawson’s The Bounds of Sense (1966). Over the years, Mark has worked and published extensively in a variety of areas including the history of early modern philosophy, especially Descartes and Kant, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He has also taught and researched (and continues to do so) on more general issues in the humanities. Mark's latest book is Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible.

Courses taught

  • PHIL 1100 Introduction to Philosophy
  • PHIL 1101 Philosophy, Culture, and Identity
  • PHIL 1150 Introduction to Formal Logic

Scholarly Work

  • BOOKS
  • Descartes: The Probable and the Certain, Würzburg/Amsterdam, Königshausen + Neumann and Rodopi, 1986, x + 374pp.
  • The Origins and Implications of Kant’s Critical Philosophy: NC ≈ PK, Lewiston, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990, vii + 299pp.
  • The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva: The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012, xii + 356pp.
  • "I AM": Monotheism and the Philosophy of the Bible, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, xii + 248pp.
  • Persons and Other Things: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hebrew Bible, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2021, x + 258pp.
  • ORIGINAL ARTICLES IN BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
  • ‘Prime Matter, Predication, and the Semantics of Feature-Placing,’ in A. Kasher, ed., Language in Focus, Dordrecht-Holland, D. Reidel, 1976, pp. 75-104.
  • ‘General and Special Non-relativity: Philosophy and Science in the Meditations,’ in G.J.D. Moyal, ed., René Descartes: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991, Volume II, pp. 36-56.
  • ‘The Fisher King,’ in Haim Marantz, ed., Judaism and Education: Essays in Honour of Walter Ackerman, Beer Sheva, Israel, Ben Gurion University Press, 1998, pp. 25-53.
  • ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
  • ‘The Substance of Bundles,’ The Personalist LVI, 1975, pp. 38-46.
  • ‘Strawson’s Hidden Realism,’ The Journal of Critical Analysis V, 1975, pp. 135-145.
  • ‘Kant on Receptivity: Form and Content,’ Kant-Studien 66, 1975, pp. 313-330.
  • ‘Space and Analogy,’ Mind LXXXIX, 1975, pp. 355-373.
  • ‘Doctrine and Method in the Philosophy of P.F. Strawson,’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XXVI, 1976, pp. 364-383.
  • ‘Matter and Rationality,’ Apeiron 11, 1977, pp. 11-31.
  • ‘Hume on Modes,’ Hume Studies III, 1977, pp. 32-50.
  • ‘How Philosophers See “Red”,’ Grazer Philosophische Studien 4, 1977, pp. 43-64.
  • ‘On Reference,’ Manuscrito I, 1977, pp. 83-100.
  • ‘Semantic Determinacy and Ontology,’ Idealistic Studies 8, 1977, pp. 109-131.
  • ‘Dummett on Aristotle’s “In” and Frege’s “Of”,’ Logique et Analyse 77-78, 1977, pp. 159-164.
  • ‘Cartesian Substances as Modal Totalities,’ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XVII, 1978, pp. 320-343.
  • ‘The Distinction Between “Transcendental” and “Metaphysical” in Kant’s Philosophy of Science,’ The Modern Schoolman LV, 1978, pp. 357-385.
  • ‘Cognition and Predication: Towards a New Typology,’ Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 33, 1979, pp. 3-22.
  • ‘Leibniz and Relationality,’ Critica XI, 1979, pp. 29-49.
  • ‘Intellectual Intuition and Cognitive Assimilability,’ The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 10, 1979, pp. 153-163.
  • ‘The Dawn of Conceptuality: A Kantian Perspective,’ Idealistic Studies 9, 1979, pp. 187-212.
  • ‘The Methodological Development of Critical Philosophy,’ Journal of the History of Philosophy XVII, 1979, pp. 217-242.
  • ‘A Stratified Bundle Theory,’ Synthese 42, 1979, pp. 379-410.
  • ‘Conceptuality: An Essay in Retrieval,’ Kant-Studien 70, 1979, pp. 383-408.
  • ‘Tractatus: Monism or Pluralism?’ Mind LXXXIX, 1980, pp. 17-36.
  • ‘Causation, Cognition and Historical Typology,’ Dialectica 34, 1980, pp. 211-227.
  • ‘Language and World,’ Metaphilosophy 11, 1980, pp. 229-243.
  • ‘Berkeley and Kant: Ectypes vs Archetypes,’ Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia XXXVI, 1981, pp. 139-155.
  • ‘Berkeley and Cognition,’ Philosophy 56, 1981, pp. 213-221.
  • ‘Complete Causes,’ Logique et Analyse 94, 1981, pp. 231-244.
  • ‘Reason and Substance: The Kantian Metaphysics of Conceptual Positivism,’ Kant-Studien 73, 1982, pp. 1-16.
  • ‘Abstraction and Determinacy: The Ideological Background of Berkeleianism,’ Idealistic Studies 12, 1982, pp. 14-34.
  • ‘A Problem of Causation and Metaphysical Realism,’ Philosophical Inquiry IV, 1982, pp. 129-152.
  • ‘Consciousness and Cognition: From Descartes to Berkeley,’ Studia Leibnitiana IV, 1982, pp. 244-265.
  • ‘Cartesian Probability and Cognitive Structure,’ Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 36, 1982, pp. 564-579.
  • ‘The Structure of Cartesian Scepticism,’ The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXI, 1983, pp. 343-357.
  • ‘Mind and Body: Two Real Distinctions,’ The Southern Journal of Philosophy XXII, 1984, pp. 347-359.
  • ‘Descartes’ Proto-Critique,’ History of European Ideas 6, 1985, pp. 153-171.
  • ‘Cartesian Certainty: Toward the Categorial Core,’ Idealistic Studies 15, 1985, pp. 219-247.
  • ‘Cartesian Uncertainty: Descartes and Dummett,’ Grazer Philosphische Studien 27, 1986, pp. 101-124.
  • ‘God Incorporated,’ Sophia 26, no. 3, 1987, pp. 13-21.
  • ‘Structure and the Interpretation of Classical Modern Metaphysics,’ Metaphilosophy 18, 1987, pp. 20-287.
  • ‘Cartesian Uncertainty: Descartes and Rorty,’ Philosophia 17, 1987, pp. 271-295.
  • ‘Interpreting Bradley: The Critique of Fact-Pluralism,’ History and Philosophy of Logic 9, 1988, pp. 205-223.
  • ‘Transcendental Idealism: Materials for a Motivating Interpretation,’ Idealistic Studies 18, 1988, pp. 247-265.
  • ‘Objectivity and Method: How the Euthyphro Works,’ Logique et Analyse 125-126, 1989, pp. 41-54.
  • ‘The Sense/Intellect Continuum in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Analytic Interpretation,’ The Modern Schoolman LXVII, 1989, pp. 49-70.
  • ‘Thinning Thick Reflectivity: A Feature of Philosophical Rhetoric,’ The Journal of Speculative Philosophy III, 1989, pp. 190-212.
  • ‘Error Theory: Logic, Rhetoric, and Philosophy,’ The Journal of Speculative Philosophy IV, 1990, pp. 37-65.
  • ‘Certainty, the Cogito, and Cartesian Dualism,’ Studia Leibnitiana XXII, 1990, pp. 123-137.
  • ‘Kant’s Diversity Theory: A Dissenting View,’ History of Philosophy Quarterly 7, 1990, pp. 461-474.
  • ‘Transcendental Idealism: The Dialectical Dimension,’ Dialectica 45, 1991, pp. 31-45.
  • ‘Berkeley’s Cartesian Anti-Abstractionism,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 40, 1991, pp. 51-64.
  • ‘Intermediate Possibility and Actuality: Cartesian Error Theory,’ American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly LXV, 1991, pp. 63-82.
  • ‘The Meditations: Towards an Integrated Reading,’ The Modern Schoolman LXVIII, 1991, pp. 305-319.
  • ‘Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism: Reply to Moked,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 40, 1991, pp. 315-318.
  • ‘Euthyphro: A Guide for Analytic Instruction,’ Teaching Philosophy 15, 1992, pp. 33-49.
  • ‘Kant’s “Critical” Rationalism: The Dialectical Dimension,’ Idealistic Studies 21, 1992, pp. 107-121.
  • ‘Rewriting Kant’s Antinomies: A Meta-Interpretive Discussion,’ The Philosophical Forum XXV, 1993, pp. 1-18.
  • Cogito: Inference and Certainty,’ The Modern Schoolman LXX, 1993, pp. 81-98.
  • ‘Transcendental Idealism and the End of Philosophy,’ Metaphilosophy 24, 1993, pp. 97-112.
  • ‘John Locke: An English Transcendentalist?’ Idealistic Studies 23, 1993, pp. 111-123.
  • ‘Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism,’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 2, 1994, pp. 145-163.
  • ‘Theory and Form in Descartes’ Meditations,’ Man and World 26, 1993, pp. 261-274.
  • ‘The Palinode of the Analyst: Rationality and Self in the Euthyphro,’ Philosophical Inquiry XVI, 1994, pp. 38-55.
  • ‘P.F. Strawson and the Ghost of F.H. Bradley,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 43, 1994, pp. 243-363.
  • ‘The Prussian Sphinx: Interpreting Modern Philosophy,’ Idealistic Studies 25, 1995, pp. 255-280.
  • ‘Gods, Giants, Fractals, and the Geometry of Early Modernity: Descartes, Gassendi, and the Rise of Science,’ Perspectives on Science 3, 1995, pp. 480-519.
  • ‘Philosophy and Egypt,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 46, 1997, pp. 3 28.
  • ‘The King and “I”: Agency and Rationality in Athens and Jerusalem,’ Ratio X, 1997, pp. 10-34.
  • ‘Spinoza à la Mode: A Defense of Spinozistic Anti-Pluralism,’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy 75, 1997, pp. 38-66.
  • 'The Counter Bible: Western Culture and the Self-Critical Book,’ Journal for the Critical Study of Religion 2, 1997, pp. 53-81. [A slightly earlier version of this paper was published, by editorial inadvertence, in Mentalities/Mentalités 12, 1997, pp. 47-67.]
  • ‘Descartes’s Wax and the Typology of Modern Philosophy,’ The Modern Schoolman LXXIV, 1997, pp. 117-141.
  • ‘Jacob’s Ladder: Personality and Autonomy in the Hebrew Scriptures,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 13, 1998, pp. 9-27.
  • ‘Im-manual Can’t: Activity, Cognition, God, and Transcendental Idealism,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 48, 1998, pp. 235-264.
  • ‘Cartesian Realism and G/P-Implosion,’ Journal of Philosophical Research XXIII, 1998, pp. 307-329.
  • ‘Psycho-Semitic: Unity and Personality in the Bible,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 14, 1999, pp. 1-21.
  • ‘The Practical World: Synthesis, Science, and Kant’s Idealism,’ Idealistic Studies 29, 1999, pp. 1-31.
  • ‘Inhumanity and Polity: An Essay on Plato’s Republic,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 49, 2000, pp. 235-281.
  • ‘Invitation to a Beheading: The Career of Philosophy,’ Philosophia 28, 2001, pp. 39-66.
  • ‘Two Humanisms: Athens and Jerusalem,’ Soundings 84, 2001, pp. 449-480.
  • ‘Our Odd Esse: Nothingness and Western Identity,’ University of Toronto Quarterly 70, 2001, pp. 593-619.
  • ‘The Bible Files Chapter 11: Part One’ Mentalities/Mentalités 17:1, 2002, pp. 52-65.
  • ‘The Bible Files Chapter 11: Part Two,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 17:2, 2002, pp. 11-19.
  • ‘Athens and Jerusalem: Two Tales of the City,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 51, 2002, pp. 252-294.
  • ‘The Book of Man: Humanism in the Bible,’ The Midwest Quarterly XLIII, 2002, pp. 255-280.
  • ‘Noman’s Land: Bernard Williams Performs CPR on Philosophy,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 52, 2003, pp. 3-40.
  • ‘Achilles’s Tent and René’s Room: Interiority and Subjectivity,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 53, 2004, pp. 243-273.
  • ‘An Offer He Can’t Refuse? The Binding of Abraham,’ Mentalities/Mentalités 19:2, 2005.
  • ‘The Whole Story: Either Kant is not a “critical” philosopher or “critical” does not mean what Kant says it does,’ Kant-Studien 98, 2007, pp. 1-39.
  • ‘Israelite Idol: The Proto-Humanist versus the Proto-Philosophers,’ Philosophy & Theology 19, 2007, pp. 57-78.
  • ‘The Birth of Death in Athens and Jerusalem,’ The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII, 2007, pp. 210-232.
  • ‘Monstrocity: The Bible’s Anti-Philosophy of Mind,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 56, 2007, pp. 267-294.
  • ‘Of Mice and Men: God and the Canadian Supreme Court,’ Ratio Juris 21, 2008, pp. 107-124.
  • ‘Transcendental Idealism: What Jerusalem has to say to Königsberg,’ Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XLIX 2010, pp. 25-51.
  • ‘God is Love, Zeus is Sex: Theology and Anthropology in the Bible,’ Philosophy & Theology 22, 2010, pp. 285-311.
  • ‘“And the spirit of God hovered on the face of the water”: An Introduction to the Bible for Philosophers,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 60, 2011, pp. 3-31.
  • ‘“I am the Lord your God”: Religion, Morality, and the Ten Commandments,’ The Heythrop Journal LII, 2011, pp. 541-558.
  • ‘Descartes, Scientia, and Pure Enquiry,’ British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19, 2011, pp. 873-886.
  • ‘The Holy One: What the Bible’s philosophy is and what it isn’t,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 62, 2013, pp. 43-66.
  • ‘The First Professor of Biblical Philosophy,’ Sophia 52, 2013, pp. 503-519.
  • ‘“Where Were You?” God, Job, and the Quinizer,’ The Heythrop Journal 56, 2014, pp. 1-14.
  • ‘“On One Leg” The Stability of Monotheism,’ Philosophy & Theology 26, 2014, pp. 187-206.
  • ‘“O God, O Montreal!” Secularity and Turbo-Charged Humanism,’ Philo 17, 2014, pp. 23-43.
  • ‘Is there philosophy in the Bible?` The Jerusalem Review 8, 2015, pp. 57-94. [The editors sprinkled excerpts from several essays of mine into the essay that I submitted, and added a bit of their own. The result is, in parts, unintendedly funny. Perhaps a bit of comedy is welcome in this area; God is no George Burns.]
  • ‘The Being of Mind: Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos and the Book of Genesis,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 66, 2017, pp. 3-26.
  • ‘Jerry and Jewry: Ethnicity and Humanity in G. A. Cohen,’ University of Toronto Quarterly 86, 2017, pp. 593-620.
  • ‘Artificial Respiration: What does God really do in the beginning?’ New Blackfriars 99, 2018, pp. 578-600.
  • ‘His Royal I-ness: The Function of God in the Bible,’ Philosophy & Theology 31, 2019, pp. 101-111.
  • ‘Persons are the Only Creatures: Non-Naturalism in the Bible,’ The Heythrop Journal LXI, 2020, pp. 951-963.
  • ‘G. E. M. Anscombe and the Ontology of Moral Value,’ Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 69, 2021, pp. 281-298.
  • ‘The Properly Constituted City: Enochville versus Babel,’ The Midwest Quarterly 63, 2022, pp. 159-170.
  • 'Deities and Categories,' Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 8, 2023, pp. 1-16.
  • Exceptionalism in the Bible: There Is Less Than Is Thought, and What There Is, Is Biblically Problematic,’ Arc – Journal of the School of Religious Studies, McGill University 50, 2022, pp. 123-164.
  • 'Middleman: Homer's Philosophical Rhapsody,' Philosophy and Literature 47, 2023. pp. 407-420.
  • ‘Abraham: The Knight of Reason,’ The Montréal Review, March 2024.
  • ‘“Crime” and “Punishment”: The Curse of Cain and the Bible’s Social Philosophy,’ Biblical Theology Bulletin 54, 2024, pp. 4-12.
  • ‘Genesis 1 and Genesis 2: Interpreting the Beginnings,’ Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 50, 2024.
  • CRITICAL STUDIES
  • Leonard Nelson, Progress and Regress in Philosophy, Philosophia 5, 1975, pp. 529-540.
  • P.F. Strawson, Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays, Philosophia 6, 1976, pp. 321-332.
  • Eckart Förster, ed., Kant’s Transcendental Deductions: The Three Critiques and the Opus Postumum, Dialogue XXIX, 1990, pp. 575-582.
  • REPRINTED ARTICLES
  • ‘Cartesian Probability and Cognitive Structure,’ in G.J.D. Moyal, ed., René Descartes: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991, Volume I, pp. 511-528. From: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung 36, 1982.
  • ‘Cartesian Substances as Modal Totalities,’ in G.J.D. Moyal, ed., René Descartes: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991, Volume III, pp. 363-384. From: Dialogue XVII, 1978.
  • ‘Berkeley and Cognition,’ in Walter E. Creery, ed., George Berkeley: Critical Assessments, London, Routledge, 1991. From: Philosophy 56, 1982.
  • MISCELLANEOUS
  • Critical Notice of The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva, by Yuval Lurie. Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 62, 2013, pp. 245-259.
  • Review of “I AM”: Monotheism and the Philosophy of the Bible, by April Lynn Downey. http://readingreligion.org/books/i-am#comment-4154
  • Review of Persons and Other Things, by Jerome Gellman. https://readingreligion.org/9781487508982/persons-and-other-things/