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164Women in Early Analytic Philosophy: Volume IntroductionJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 5 (2). 2017.Introduction to the special issue including papers about Susan Stebbing, Susanne Langer and Maria Kokoszyńska.
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60Newton and Newtonianism in eighteenth-century british thoughtIn James A. Harris (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press. pp. 41. 2013.This chapter describes various aspects of the impact on philosophy of Newton’s Principia. It shows how Newton’s achievement dramatically influenced debates over the way subsequent philosophers conceived of their activity, and thus prepared the way for an institutional and methodological split between philosophy and science. These large-scale themes are illustrated by attention to a number of detailed debates over the nature and importance of Newton’s legacy: debates concerning gravity and matter…Read more
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73“The Obituary of a Vain Philosopher”: Adam Smith’s Reflections on Hume’s LifeHume Studies 29 (2): 327-362. 2003.
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21Insiders and outsiders in seventeenth-century philosophyNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews. forthcoming.
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10811. “Two Definitions of ‘Cause,’ Newton, and the Significance of the Humean distinction between Natural and Philosophical Relations,”Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 5 (1): 83-101. 2007.The main aim of this paper is to explore why it is so important for Hume to defi ne ‘cause’ as he does. This will shed light on the signifi cance of the natural/philosophical relation (hereafter NPR) distinction in the Treatise. Hume's use of the NPR distinction allows him to dismiss on general grounds conceptions of causation at odds with his own. In particular, it allows him to avoid having to engage in detailed re-interpretation of potentially confl icting theories formulated by natural philo…Read more
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