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The Cambridge History of Seventeeth-Century Philosophy,2eéd., coll. « Cambridge History of Philosophy », 2 volRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 195 (2): 216-217. 2005.
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42Duhem on Maxwell: A Case-Study in the Interrelations of History of Science and Philosophy of SciencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.We examine Duhem's critique of Maxwell, especially Duhem's complaints that Maxwell's theory is too bold or not systematic enough, that it is too dependent on models, and that its concepts are not continuous with those of the past. We argue that these complaints are connected by Duhem's historical criterion for the evaluation of physical theories. We briefly compare Duhem's criterion of historical continuity with similar criteria developed by "historicists" like Kuhn and Lakatos. We argue that Du…Read more
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35The Phases of Venus Before 1610Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 18 (1): 81. 1987.
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55Descartes and the First CartesiansOxford University Press. 2014.Roger Ariew presents a new account of Descartes as a philosopher who sought to engage his contemporaries and society. He argues that the Principles of Philosophy was written to rival Scholastic textbooks, and considers Descartes' enterprise in contrast to the tradition it was designed to replace and in relation to the works of the first Cartesians
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14Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study. Catherine WilsonIsis 82 (2): 377-377. 1991.
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52The Infinite in Descartes' Conversation with BurmanArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 69 (2): 140-163. 1987.
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119Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1995.Before publishing his landmark _Meditations_ in 1641, Rene Descartes sent his manuscript to many leading thinkers to solicit their objections to his arguments. He included these objections, along with his own detailed replies, as part of the first edition. This unusual strategy gave Descartes a chance to address criticisms in advance and to demonstrate his willingness to consider diverse viewpoints—critical in an age when radical ideas could result in condemnation by church and state, or even de…Read more
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5Élie Diodati et Galilée: Naissance d'un réseau scientifique dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Preface byIsabelle Pantin (review)Isis 99 181-182. 2008.
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39Christopher Clavius and the Classification of SciencesSynthese 83 (2). 1990.I discuss two questions: (1) would Duhem have accepted the thesis of the continuity of scientific methodology? and (2) to what extent is the Oxford tradition of classification/subalternation of sciences continuous with early modern science? I argue that Duhem would have been surprised by the claim that scientific methodology is continuous; he expected at best only a continuity of physical theories, which he was trying to isolate from the perpetual fluctuations of methods and metaphysics. I also …Read more
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19Galileo Galileo. Sidereus Nuncius or the Sidereal Messenger, translated with introduction, conclusion, and notes by Albert Van Helden. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 127. ISBN 0-226-27903-0. £23.95, $34.50 . £6.25, $9.25 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 23 (3): 355-356. 1990.
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12Philosophy and the philosophy of scienceIn Martin Curd & Stathis Psillos (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Routledge. pp. 15. 2008.
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7Ockham's Razor: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of Ockham's Principle of ParsimonyDissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 1976.
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9Descartes: His Life and Thought. Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie ToddIsis 90 (2): 362-363. 1999.
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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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22Critiques scolastiques de Descartes: le cogitoLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (3): 587-603. 1997.
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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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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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