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14Comments on John Schuster and Frederic de Buzon concerning Physico–Mathematics and Mathesis in DescartesJournal of Early Modern Studies 7 (1): 175-186. 2018.
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13Descartes in Seventeenth-century EnglandBurns & Oates. 2002.These volumes contain Descartes's main works in their first English translations, as well as critiques of his philosophy both in English and translated from other languages. Other works in the set bring together writings by Cartesians in English translation, works by English thinkers influenced by Descartes, and the standard seventeenth-century Descartes biographies in their English translations. As a whole, this set provides a group of rare and largely inaccessible works vital to understanding …Read more
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132 GW Leibniz, life and worksIn Nicholas Jolley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, Cambridge University Press. pp. 18. 1995.
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13Mind‐Body Interaction in Cartesian Philosophy: A Reply to GarberSouthern Journal of Philosophy 21 (S1): 33-37. 1983.
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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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12Chronology of Eclipses and Comets, A.D. 1-1000 by D. Justin Schove; Alan Fletcher (review)Isis 77 347-348. 1986.
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11Duhem 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 (1): 145-156. 1986.Since the revival of historicist philosophy of science in the 1960s many philosophers have acknowledged a debt to Duhem. But Duhem’s opinions are imperfectly understood and, as McMullin has shown in his (1970) and (1979), there are many strands in the current revival of historicism. We consider here Duhem’s views on the role of history in the appraisal of scientific theories. However, there is no single text offering Duhem’s views on the subject; rather, they are revealed during their applicatio…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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11Making Science Social: The Conferences of Théophraste Renaudot, 1633–1642 (review)Isis 95 124-125. 2004.
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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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10Descartes: His Life and Thought by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis; Jane Marie Todd (review)Isis 90 362-363. 1999.
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10From Myth to the Modern Mind: A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought Volume 1: Animism to Archimedes (review)Review of Metaphysics 40 (4): 792-792. 1987.This volume appears to be the product of much effort, the culmination of more than twenty years of study--though it could not have been "written before the collapse of the research program of the logical positivists," as the back cover proclaims. Schlagel's introduction is more precise: the volume adopts an anti-positivistic approach to understanding science precisely because of the failure of the research program of the positivists and the success of the historicists. In fact, in opposition to …Read more
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10Philosophical Essays (edited book)Hackett. 1695.Features Leibniz's writings including letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions.
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9Descartes: His Life and Thought. Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie ToddIsis 90 (2): 362-363. 1999.
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9The Origins of Statics: The Sources of Physical Theory. Pierre Duhem, Grant F. Leneaux, Victor N. Vagliente, Guy H. Wagener (review)Isis 83 (3): 482-482. 1992.
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8Revolution and ContinuityCUA Press. 2018.This volume presents new work in history and historiography to the increasingly broad audience for studies of the history and philosophy of science. These essays are linked by a concern to understand the context of early modern science in its own context.
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8La Logique de Port-Royal, les premiers cartésiens et la scolastique tardiveArchives de Philosophie 78 (1): 29-48. 2015.Résumé Dans quelle mesure la Logique de Port-Royal peut-elle être considérée comme une logique cartésienne? Et dans quelle mesure l’ Art de penser diffère-t-il des logiques antérieures? Telles sont les deux questions, étroitement liées l’une à l’autre, auxquelles je souhaite répondre dans cette étude en procédant à une série de comparaisons, d’une part avec ce que Descartes appelait sa logique, d’autre part avec ce que les cartésiens de la première génération entendaient par logique cartésienne,…Read more
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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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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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