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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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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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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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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 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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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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IntroductionIn The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 1-15. 2017.
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Covid rule breakers and the social contractIn Evandro Barbosa (ed.), Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age, Routledge. 2023.
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Robert Boyle and the Intelligibility of the Corpuscular PhilosophyIn Peter R. Anstey & Alberto Vanzo (eds.), Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge. 2019.Early modern experimental philosophers were opposed to speculation, and yet many endorsed speculative theories. This chapter gives a partial explanation of why this is so, using Robert Boyle’s acceptance and promotion of the corpuscular philosophy as a case study. It argues that, in addition to furnishing experimental evidence for the corpuscular hypothesis in his Forms and Qualities, Boyle attempted to establish its epistemic superiority over other speculative theories on the grounds that it is…Read more
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Literary Responses to Robert Boyle's Natural Philosophy.In David Burchell & Juliet Cummins (eds.), Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England, Ashgate. pp. 145-164. 2007.
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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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17th/18th Century Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
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Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |