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33Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (4). 2011.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 819-822, July 2011
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32John Locke on the understandingIn The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, Oxford University Press. pp. 311. 2013.The chapter examines the views of John Locke on the study of human understanding, focusing on his work entitled An Essay concerning Human Understanding and Of the Conduct of the Understanding. It highlights Locke's use of the Stoic tripartite division of knowledge into natural philosophy, ethics, and logic, and his emphasis on the importance of the senses in the acquisition of sensitive knowledge of the natural world. The chapter also discusses the normative aims for the study of the understandi…Read more
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32The theory of material qualitiesIn The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, Oxford University Press. pp. 240. 2013.This chapter examines the main theories of material qualities developed by leading British philosophers during the seventeenth century, describes the taxonomy of qualities during this period, and analyzes the epistemological and metaphysical theses that influenced the development of the theory of material qualities in Great Britain. It also considers the relevant works of Thomas Hobbes, Walter Charleton, Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Isaac Newton.
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31Introduction: Women, Philosophy and Literature in the Early Modern PeriodIntellectual History Review 22 (3): 323-325. 2012.No abstract
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30The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Provides an advanced overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. It covers the whole of the seventeenth century, ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The book contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natur…Read more
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29The coherence of cohesion in the later LeibnizBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (4): 594-613. 2016.ABSTRACTThis paper expounds and critically assesses G. W. Leibniz’s mature theory of the cohesion of material bodies. Leibniz’s later view of cohesion was forged in polemical engagement with the views of John Locke and the Dutch natural philosopher Nicolaas Hartsoeker and it is in Leibniz’s response to Locke in his New Essays on Human Understanding, and especially his correspondence with Hartsoeker, that the theory is revealed. After setting out Locke’s theory of solidity and cohesion, the paper…Read more
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28John Locke, Thomas Sydenham, and the authorship of two medical essaysElectronic British Library Journal 3 1-42. 2009.Two medical essays in the hand of John Locke survive amongst the Shaftesbury Papers in the National Archives (National Archives PRO 30/24/47/2, ff. 31r–38v and ff. 49r–56r). Since the 1960s their authorship has been disputed. Some scholars have attributed them to the London physician Thomas Sydenham, others have attributed them to Locke. Detailed analyses of their contents and the context of their composition provide very strong evidence for Lockean authorship. This is reinforced by the applicat…Read more
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28D'Alembert, the “Preliminary Discourse” and experimental philosophyIntellectual History Review 24 (4): 495-516. 2014.
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27Robert BoyleIn Edward Zalta (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2010 Edition)., Metaphysics Research Lab, Csli. pp. 1-39. 2014.
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26The science of nature in the seventeenth century: patterns of change in early modern natural philosophy (edited book)Springer Science and Business Media. 2005.The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised today.
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23The Principled Enlightenment: Condillac, d'Alembert and Principle MinimalismIn Geoff Boucher & Henry Martyn Lloyd (eds.), Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Politics, and Philosophy, Lexington Books. 2018.
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20The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle (review)Isis 99 (1): 182-183. 2008.
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19Essences and KindsIn Desmond M. Clarke & Catherine Wilson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, Oxford University Press. 2011.This article examines the views of René Descartes, Robert Boyle, and John Locke on essence and kinds and outlines the polemical stances that motivate and direct each of their views. It describes the ontological categories to which they subscribed and their own speculative theories about the actual kinds in the world. It categories to which they subscribed and their own speculative theories about the actual kinds in the world and discusses the late-Aristotelian theory of substantial forms.
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17The Christian Virtuoso and the Reformers: Are there Reformation Roots to Boyle’s Natural Philosophy?Lucas: An Evangelical History Review 27 1-20. 2000.The question of the extent to which a natural philosopher like Robert Boyle was influenced by the reformers has a great deal of intrinsic interest. That Boyle was a Protestant and was well versed in the current theological issues of his day is beyond dispute. But the central question to be explored in this paper is the extent to which he was influenced either directly by the reformers themselves or indirectly by Calvinist theology. This in turn has implications for the broader historiographical …Read more
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17The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (edited book)Routledge. 2017.This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are almost ubiquitous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the term appears in famous book titles, such as Newton’s _Principia_; the notion plays a central role in the thought of many leading philosophers, such as Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason; and many of the great discoveries of the period, such as the Law of Gravitational Attraction…Read more
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17Review of Tad M. Schmaltz, Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (2). 2003.
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16Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural PhilosophyIntellectual History Review 20 (4): 534-536. 2010.No abstract
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15The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth (review)Intellectual History Review 22 (2): 299-302. 2012.No abstract
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14IntroductionIn The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-5. 2013.
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14Locke on Knowledge, Politics and Religion: New Interpretations From Japan (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its output is largely unknown to the West. This collection makes available in English for the first time the fruits of recent Japanese research, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale. Covering three important areas of Locke's philosophical thought – knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration – this volume criticizes established interpretations a…Read more
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13IntroductionIn Peter R. Anstey & John Schuster (eds.), The science of nature in the seventeenth century: patterns of change in early modern natural philosophy, Springer Science and Business Media. pp. 1-7. 2005.
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11Introduction to Special Issue: The Philosophy of D. M. ArmstrongAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (2). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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