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.
Books
- Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Boulder; Westview Press, 1999 Dimensions of Philosophy Series (Perseus Books)
- Historicism and Knowledge. New York; Routledge, 1988
Selected Essays
- "Historicism" in Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Edited by Aviezer Tucker. Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 243-252.
- "Disease and the Concept of Supervenience" Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Biomedical Sciences. Edited by Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick. Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 35-45.
- "Foreword" to Giovanni Mari, The Postmodern, Democracy History. Translated from the Italian by Santiago Zabarella. The Contemporary European Cultural Studies Series. The Davies Group Publishers, 20006, pp. xi-xii.
- "Son Posibiles Las Leyes Científicas Sociales?" Revista Discusiones Filosóficas Año 6 No. 9 Enero-Deciembre 2005, pp. 62-87.
- "Laws and Concepts" Telos, No. 131, Summer, 2005, pp. 50-64.
- "Sensation and Methodology" in Pain: New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of its Study. Edited by Murat Aydede. MIT Press, 2005, pp. 291-297.
- "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
- "Holistic Republicanism" on two books by Philip Pettit in Telos No. 118, Winter 2000.
- "Poverty of Cosmopolitanism" on Martha Nussbaum's For Love of Country in Telos No. 117, Fall 1999.
