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John Locke, Thomas Sydenham, and the "Smallpox Manuscripts".English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 18 180-214. 2013.
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Early Modern Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction.In Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Acumen Publishing. pp. 1-18. 2009.
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MA Stewart (ed.): English Philosophy in the Age of Locke (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 137-140. 2002.
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IntroductionIn The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 1-15. 2017.
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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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Areas of Specialization
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |