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10Michael Hunter , Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends. London: Pickering, 1994. Pp. cvii + 188. ISBN 1-85196-085-6. £49.95 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 29 (1): 95. 1996.
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6IntroductionIn Dana Jalobeanu & Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond, Routledge. pp. 1-7. 2011.
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6John Locke: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers (edited book)Routledge. 2006.Today, John Locke is recognized as one of the most important and formative philosophical influences on the modern world. His imprint is still felt in political and legal thought, in educational theory, moral theory and in the theory of knowledge. Lockes key works, Two Treatises of Government , and the monumental An Essay Concerning Human Understanding , provoked lively debate when they were first published in 1690 and remain standard texts in undergraduate philosophy courses throughout the Engli…Read more
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5Locke and Natural PhilosophyIn Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Wiley-blackwell Publishing. pp. 64-81. 2015.There are at least three deep and yet creative tensions in John Locke's writings on the knowledge of the natural world. An exposition of these tensions provides the framework for this chapter. The chapter provides an account of the development of Locke's views from his early medical essays of the late 1660s to his last published writings on natural philosophy. The central locus for Locke's "philosophy of science" will be the Essay. Chymical medicine provided the main field in which Locke was reg…Read more
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5Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi (review)Isis 97 151-152. 2006.
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4The Matter of Medicine: New Medical Matter Theories in Mid-Seventeenth-Century EnglandIn Dana Jalobeanu & Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond,, Routledge. pp. 61-79. 2011.
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3Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (review)Isis 87 (2): 354-355. 1996.
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3Origins of ModernityRare Books and Special Collections Library. 2002.This is an online book exhibition.
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2Experimental Philosophy: Old and New.De Beer Gallery Special Collections, University of Otago. 2011.This is an online book exhibition at the University of Otago Library. It contains images of Hume's copy of Berkeley's New Theory of Vision, 1709.
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1Locke on method in natural philosophyIn The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 26--42. 2003.
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1The experimental history of the understanding from Locke to SterneEighteenth-Century Thought 4 143-169. 2009.
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1Locke and the problem of necessity in early modern philosophy.In Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares & Adriane Rini (eds.), Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 174-193. 2016.
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1Locke on knowledgeIn Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), Knowledge in Modern Philosophy. 2018.This chapter provides an overview of John Locke's theory of knowledge.
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Locke, Sydenham and the 'Tyrrell Memoir'Studi Lockiani 2023. 2023.This paper examines the contents of the sixth paragraph of the “Tyrrell Memoir”. This paragraph makes some strong, critical claims about both Locke’s “obsession” with the London physician Thomas Sydenham, and his purported dismissive attitude towards another physician, Richard Lower. In the paragraph, Tyrrell sides with the First Earl of Shaftesbury’s mocking attitude towards the triumvirate Locke, his close friend David Thomas, and Sydenham, and relates some extraordinary and hitherto unknown a…Read more
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Locke and non-propositional knowledgeIn Kiyoshi Shimokawa & Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Locke on Knowledge, Politics and Religion: New Interpretations From Japan, Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.Peter Anstey rejects the widespread view that all knowledge for Locke is propositional. He argues, instead, that Locke accepts a form of non-propositional knowledge. The perception of the agreement and disagreement of ideas, according to Anstey's interpretation, is akin to what Bertrand Russell called “knowledge by acquaintance.” He presents a careful, four-step analysis of Locke’s view of the acquisition of knowledge, which is designed to show how the mind proceeds from perceiving to affirming,…Read more
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Locke and Cartesian cosmologyIn Philippe Hamou & Martine Pécharman (eds.), Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2018.This chapter examines John Locke's interest in and views on the Cartesian vortex theory.
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Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiologyIn John Schuster, Stephen Gaukroger & John Sutton (eds.), Descartes' Natural Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 420--444. 2000.
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Le ressort de l'air selon Boyle et Mariotte.In Myriam Dennehy & Charles Ramond (eds.), Philosophie Naturelle de Robert Boyle,, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin.. pp. 379-403. 2009.
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Bacon, experimental philosophy and French Enlightenment natural historyIn Raphaelle Garrod & Paul Smith (eds.), Natural History in Early Modern France: The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre. 2018.This chapter examines Francis Bacon's influence on Buffon's and Diderot's conceptions of natural history.
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Condillac and the Molyneux ProblemIn Anik Waldow & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), Condillac and His Reception: On the Nature and Origin of Human Abilities, Routledge. 2023.
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Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |