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89Heidegger and Galileo’s Slippery SlopeDialogue 48 (1): 59-76. 2009.ABSTRACT: In Die Frage nach dem Ding, Martin Heidegger characterizes Galileo as an important transitional figure in the struggle to replace the Aristotelian conception of nature with that of Newton. However, Heidegger only attends to Galileo’s modernity and not to those Aristotelian elements still discernible in Galileo’s work. This article fleshes out both aspects in Galileo in light of Heidegger’s discussion. It concludes by arguing that the lacuna in Heidegger’s account of Galileo is the cons…Read more
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24Thomas Reid's Rigourised Anti-HypotheticalismJournal of Scottish Philosophy 3 (2): 123-138. 2005.
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160"Merely a veil over the living thought": Mathematics and logic in Peirce's forgotten Spinoza reviewTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42 (4): 501-517. 2006.This paper considers Peirce's striking remarks about mathematics in a little-known review of Spinoza's Ethics within the larger context of his philosophy of mathematics. It argues that, for Peirce, true mathematical reasoning is always at the vanguard of thought, and resists logical demonstration. Through diagrammatic thought and her pre-theoretical innate faculty of logica utens, the great mathematician is able to see a theorem as true long before the logical apparatus necessary to demonstrate …Read more
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48A House at War Against Itself: Absolute Versus Pluralistic Idealism in Spinoza, Peirce, James and RoyceBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 23 (4): 710-731. 2015.In this paper, I elaborate affinities between Peirce, Spinoza and Royce, in order to illuminate the division between Peirce's and James's expressions of idealism. James contrasted Spinoza's and Royce's absolute idealism with his and Peirce's pluralistic idealism. I triangulate among Peirce, Spinoza and Royce to show that, contra James's view, Peirce himself was more at home in the absolutistic camp. In Section 2, I survey Peirce's discussions of Spinoza's pragmatism and of the divide within prag…Read more
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17Hasana Sharp , Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (3). 2013.
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