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5Medieval Cosmology: Theories of Infinity, Place, Time, Void, and the Plurality of Worlds (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1987.These selections from _Le système du monde_, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great French physicist Pierre Duhem, focus on cosmology, Duhem's greatest interest. By reconsidering the work of such Arab and Christian scholars as Averroes, Avicenna, Gregory of Rimini, Albert of Saxony, Nicole Oresme, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam, Duhem demonstrated the sophistication of medieval science and cosmology
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27Theory of Comets at Paris During the Seventeenth CenturyJournal of the History of Ideas 53 (3): 355-372. 1992.
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200Descartes and the tree of knowledgeSynthese 92 (1). 1992.Descartes' image of the tree of knowledge from the preface to the French edition of the Principles of Philosophy is usually taken to represent Descartes' break with the past and with the fragmentation of knowledge of the schools. But if Descartes' tree of knowledge is analyzed in its proper context, another interpretation emerges. A series of contrasts with other classifications of knowledge from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries raises some puzzles: claims of originality and radical brea…Read more
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11The a to Z of Descartes and Cartesian PhilosophyScarecrow Press. 2010.The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and cross-reference dictionary entries Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings, as well as entries on those who supported him, those who criticized him, those who corrected him, and those who together formed one of the major movements in philosophy, Cartesianism
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22Critiques scolastiques de Descartes: le cogitoLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (3): 587-603. 1997.
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Bernier et les doctrines gassendistes et cartésiennes de l'espace: Réponses au problème de l'explication de l'eucharistieCorpus: Revue de philosophie 20 155-170. 1992.
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54Readings in Modern Philosophy, Volume 1: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Associated Texts (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2000.This anthology offers the key works of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz in their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.
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11Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot, 1633–1642 (review)Isis 95 124-125. 2004.
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The scholastic backgroundIn Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--425. 1998.
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5Le monde, l'homme by Rene Descartes; Annie Bitbol-Hesperies; Jean-Pierre Verdet (review)Isis 88 539-540. 1997.
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46The initial response to Galileo's lunar observationsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 32 (3): 571-581. 2001.
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2Descartes and Leibniz as readers of Suárez: theory of distinctions and principle of individuationIn Benjamin Hill & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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2Descartes, the first Cartesians, and logicIn Daniel Garber & Steven M. Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--241. 2003.
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11Damned If You Do: Cartesians and Censorship, 1663–1706Perspectives on Science 2 (3): 255-274. 1994.I consider two events in late seventeenth-century philosophy: the condemnation of Cartesianism by the church, the throne, and the university and the noncondemnation of Gassendism by the same powers. What is striking about the two events is that both Cartesians and Gassendists accepted the same proposition deemed heretical. Thus, what was sufficient to condemn Cartesianism was not sufficient to condemn Gassendism. As a result, I suggest that to understand what is involved in condemnation one has …Read more
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44Mind-body interaction in cartesian philosophy: A reply to GarberSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 33-37. 1983.
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64Descartes and the last ScholasticsCornell University Press. 1999.The volume touches upon many topics and themes shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form; infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the ...
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