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26Walter Ott. Causation & Laws in Early Modern Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+260. $75.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (2): 371-375. 2011.
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24Review of Andrew Janiak: Space: a history (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12 (1): 322-325. 2022.
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24Norman Kemp Smith on the experience of durationBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (2): 295-313. 2022.The Scottish philosopher Norman Kemp Smith (1872–1958) is best known for his 1929 English translation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and for his incisive commentaries on Descartes, Hume, and Kant. These achievements have overshadowed his original philosophical work in several areas, including the experience of time. A realist with idealist sympathies, Kemp Smith developed a non-transcendental version of Kant’s conception of time as a ‘pure intuition’ (though he insisted that temporal percept…Read more
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20Review of Christia Mercer (ed.), Eileen O'Neill (ed.), Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (9). 2005.
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18‘The Twin-Brother of Space’: Spatial Analogy in the Emergence of Absolute TimeIntellectual History Review 22 (1): 23-39. 2012.
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13Causation and similarity in DescartesIn Gennaro Rocco & Huenemann Charles (eds.), New Essays on the Rationalists, Oxford University Press. pp. 296--309. 1999.
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13Descartes’s Dilemma of Eminent ContainmentDialogue 42 (1): 3-26. 2003.RésuméDans sa présentation récente de la «dialectique de la création» dans la philosophie du XVIIe siècle, Thomas Lennon suggère que les hypothèses de Descartes concernant la causalité conduisent à un dilemme : Descartes doit accepter soit une certaine sorte d'émanationnisme panthéiste, soit l'émergence de la réalité ex. nihilo. Dans cet article, je défends en détail cette suggestion de Lennon. Au cœur de la question se trouve la notion cartesienne de la possession éminente. Si cette notion est …Read more
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12Andrew Janiak, ed. Space: A History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $105.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-19-991410-4 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 12 (1): 322-325. 2022.
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9Stephen Gaukroger , Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680 -1760 . Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (4): 274-277. 2011.
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9The Stoic Roots of Hobbes's Natural Philosophy and First PhilosophyIn Marcus P. Adams (ed.), A Companion to Hobbes, Wiley-blackwell. 2021.This chapter identifies three main sources of the Stoic elements in Hobbes's philosophy: the early Christian‐Stoic Tertullian, the modern “Neo‐Stoic” school of Justus Lipsius, and the natural philosophers of the Cavendish Circle he frequented. Perhaps the most direct Stoical impact on Hobbes was the second/third century Church Father Tertullian. Hobbes and Cavendish are at bottom kindred Stoic spirits, though their systems diverge on the precise nature of material activity. The chapter explores …Read more
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7The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 2016.Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated.0.
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4Early Modern Philosophical Theology in Great BritainIn Charles Taliaferro, Paul Draper & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Wiley‐blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Religious Knowledge: Skepticism, Fideism, Reasonableness Atheism and Deism Science and Religion Biblical Criticism and the History of Religion Materialism and Immaterialism God, Space, and Time Creation, Freedom, and Laws of Nature Works cited.
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2David Hausman and Alan Hausman, Descartes's Legacy: Minds and Meaning in Early Modern Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (4): 264-266. 1998.
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1John Leslie, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 18 (2): 122-124. 1998.
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The Structure of Theoretical ProgressDissertation, University of Minnesota. 1994.I develop a new theory of theoretical progress or 'truthlikeness'. Unlike previous theories, my approach focuses on the sets of models of scientific theories, rather than their linguistic formulations. Such an approach, I argue, avoids several long-standing problems in the philosophy of theoretical progress. I find in Chapter One that the most prominent schools of twentieth century philosophy of science have all failed to account for theoretical progress. I further argue that such an account is …Read more
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Locke and Newton on Space and Time and Their Sensible MeasuresIn Zvi Biener & Eric Schliesser (eds.), Newton and Empiricism, . pp. 119-137. 2014.It is well-known that Isaac Newton’s conception of space and time as absolute -- “without reference to anything external” (Principia, 408) -- was anticipated, and probably influenced, by a number of figures among the earlier generation of seventeenth century natural philosophers, including Pierre Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton’s own teacher Isaac Barrow. The absolutism of Newton’s contemporary and friend, John Locke, has received much less attention, which is unfortunate for several reasons. …Read more
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IntroductionIn The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, University of Minnesota Press. 2016.
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