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11Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot, 1633–1642 (review)Isis 95 124-125. 2004.
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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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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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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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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, 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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96Descartes as critic of Galileo's scientific methodologySynthese 67 (1). 1986.Some philosophers of science suggest that philosophical assumptions must influence historical scholarship, because history (like science) has no neutral data and because the treatment of any particular historical episode is going to be influenced to some degree by one's prior philosophical conceptions of what is important in science. However, if the history of science must be laden with philosophical assumptions, then how can the history of science be evidence for the philosophy of science? Woul…Read more
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21Mind‐Body Interaction in Cartesian Philosophy: A Reply to GarberSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 33-37. 1983.
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23Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence (edited book)Hackett Publishing Company. 2000.A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
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52Leibniz On the Unicorn and Various Other CuriositiesEarly Science and Medicine 3 (4): 267-288. 1998.I discuss some of Leibniz's pronouncements about fringe phenomena__various monsters; talking dogs; genies and prophets; unicorns, glossopetrae, and other games of nature__in order to understand better Leibniz's views on science and the role these curiosities play in his plans for scientific academies and societies. However, given that Leibniz's sincerity has been called into question in twentieth-century secondary literature, I begin with a few historiographical remarks so as to situate these pr…Read more
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