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10Descartes: His Life and Thought by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis; Jane Marie Todd (review)Isis 90 362-363. 1999.
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2La Recherche De La Vérité Par La Lumière Naturelle De René Descartes (review)Isis 94 723-723. 2003.
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3Descartes and scholasticism: The intellectual background to Descartes' thoughtIn John Cottingham (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Descartes, Cambridge University Press. pp. 58--90. 1992.
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4Two New Descartes (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (1): 165-173. 1997.Descartes. An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995. xx + 499pp. £25.00 ISBN 0–19–823994–7Descartes. Biographie by Genèvieve Rodis‐Lewis, Calmann‐Lévy, Paris, 1995. 371pp.
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72Galileo's lunar observations in the context of medieval lunar theoryStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 15 (3): 213-226. 1984.
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15Chronology of Eclipses and Comets, A.D. 1-1000D. Justin Schove Alan FletcherIsis 77 (2): 347-348. 1986.
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7"A Study of Spinoza's Ethics" by Jonathan Bennett (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (4): 649. 1987.
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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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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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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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35The Phases of Venus Before 1610Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 18 (1): 81. 1987.
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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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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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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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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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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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