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38Christopher 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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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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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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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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9Descartes: His Life and Thought. Genevieve Rodis-Lewis, Jane Marie ToddIsis 90 (2): 362-363. 1999.
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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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196Descartes 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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21Critiques scolastiques de Descartes: le cogitoLaval Théologique et Philosophique 53 (3): 587-603. 1997.
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53Readings 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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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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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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45The 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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