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CommentaryIn Certain philosophical questions: Newton's Trinity notebook, Cambridge University Press. 1983.
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10Science Reason Rhetoric (edited book)University of Pittsburgh Press. 1995.This volume marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology of science. Converging on the central issues of rhetoric of science, the essays focus on figures such as Galileo, Harvey, Darwin, von Neumann; and on issues such as the debate over cold fusion or the continental drift controversy. Their vitality attests to the burgeoning interest in the rhetoric of science
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24Science unfettered: a philosophical study in sociohistorical ontologyOhio University Press. 2000.As a result, the works of Popper, Kuhn, Quine, and Lakatos, as well as Heidegger, Gadamer, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Feyerabend, are called into play.
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6One of the earliest and most influential treatises on the subject of this volume is Aristotle's Categories. Aristotle's title is a form of the Greek verb for speaking against or submitting an accusation in a legal proceeding. By the time of Aristotle, it also meant: to signify or to predicate. Surprisingly, the "predicates" Aristotle talks about include not only bits of language, but also such nonlinguistic items as the color white in a body and the knowledge of grammar in a man's soul. (Categor…Read more
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13Tradition and Innovation: Newton's Metaphysics of NatureSpringer. 1995.There is a thematic unity to these essays on Newton's thought: they are concerned with the central categories of Newton's metaphysics of nature (matter, causation, force, space, time) and the ways in which Newton's work relates to cultural themes such as providence and creation. Focusing on questions of tradition and innovation and Newton's engaged response to the broader patterns of his contemporary culture, they present a unified, interpretive stance that often challenges the scholarly orthodo…Read more
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18Seventeenth Century Atomism in England from Hariot to Newton. By Robert Hugh Kargon. London: Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. Pp. viii + 168. 1966. 42s. net. Physiologia Epicuro—Gassendo—Charltoniana. By Walter Charleton. Edited by Robert Hugh Kargon. Reprinted from the 1654 edition. New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation. Pp. xxv + 491. 1966. $29.50 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 4 (1): 73-76. 1968.
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15More Fetters to unfetter: A reply to Depew and SchmausSocial Epistemology 16 (4). 2002.This is a response to two reviews of our book "Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study of Sociohistorical Ontology." We clarify the relationship between the ontological and the ontic, the key phrases: 'being-in-the-world,' the 'facticity' of human existence. We show where the sources of reviewers misunderstandings lie.
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16Descartes’s changing mindStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (3): 398-419. 2006.Descartes is always concerned about knowledge. However, the Galileo affair in 1633, the reactions to his Discourse on method, and later his need to reply to objections to his Meditations provoked crises in Descartes’s intellectual development the import of which has not been sufficiently recognized. These events are the major reasons why Descartes’s philosophical position concerning how we know and what we may know is radically different at the end of his life from what it was when he began. We …Read more
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21Aristotle’s Great ClockPhilosophy Research Archives 12 387-448. 1986.This paper offers a detailed account of arguments in De Caelo I by which Aristotle tried to demonstrate the necessity of the perpetual existence and the perpetual rotation of the cosmos. On our interpretation, Aristotle’s arguments are naturalistic. Instead of being based (as many have thought) on rules of logic and language, they depend, we argue, on natural science theories about abilities (δυνάμεις), e.g., to move and to change, which things have by nature and about the conditions under which…Read more
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32Aristotle’s Great ClockPhilosophy Research Archives 12 387-448. 1986.This paper offers a detailed account of arguments in De Caelo I by which Aristotle tried to demonstrate the necessity of the perpetual existence and the perpetual rotation of the cosmos. On our interpretation, Aristotle’s arguments are naturalistic. Instead of being based (as many have thought) on rules of logic and language, they depend, we argue, on natural science theories about abilities (δυνάμεις), e.g., to move and to change, which things have by nature and about the conditions under which…Read more
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67Aristotle’s Great ClockPhilosophy Research Archives 12 387-448. 1986.This paper offers a detailed account of arguments in De Caelo I by which Aristotle tried to demonstrate the necessity of the perpetual existence and the perpetual rotation of the cosmos. On our interpretation, Aristotle’s arguments are naturalistic. Instead of being based (as many have thought) on rules of logic and language, they depend, we argue, on natural science theories about abilities (δυνάμεις), e.g., to move and to change, which things have by nature and about the conditions under which…Read more
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1174Newton's Ontology of Omnipresence and Infinite SpaceOxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 6 279-308. 2013.This essay explores the role of God’s omnipresence in Newton’s natural philosophy, with special emphasis placed on how God is related to space. Unlike Descartes’ conception, which denies the spatiality of God, or Gassendi and Charleton’s view, which regards God as completely whole in every part of space, it is argued that Newton accepts spatial extension as a basic aspect of God’s omnipresence. The historical background to Newton’s spatial ontology assumes a large part of our investigation, but …Read more
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13Review of Henry Krips, J. E. McGuire and Trevor Melia: Science Reason Rhetoric (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (3): 444-446. 1997.
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4Descartes's Changing MindPrinceton University Press. 2009.Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture of the development of Cartesian science, epist…Read more
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25Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity NotebookPhilosophical Review 95 (1): 102. 1986.
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15Seventeenth Century Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes. By J. Edleston. London: F. Cass. 1969. Pp. xcviii + 316 + index. £6.30 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 5 (3): 309-310. 1971.
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8Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries John Locke: Problems and Perspectives. Ed. by John W. Yolton. London: Cambridge University Press. 1969. Pp. vii + 278. 55s (review)British Journal for the History of Science 5 (1): 101-102. 1970.
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7ReferencesIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 243-250. 2009.
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36Newton on Place, Time, and God: An Unpublished SourceBritish Journal for the History of Science 11 (2): 114-129. 1978.Manuscript Add. 3965, section 13, folios 541r–542r and 545r–546r is in the Portsmouth Collection of manuscripts and housed in the University Library, Cambridge. These drafts contain a careful account, in Newton's hand, of his views on place, time, and God. They are part of a large number of drafts relating to the three official editions of the Principia published in Newton's lifetime
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32Newton's “Principles of Philosophy”: An Intended Preface for the 1704 Opticks and a Related Draft FragmentBritish Journal for the History of Science 5 (2): 178-186. 1970.
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19Newton and the demonic furies: Some current problems and approaches in history of scienceHistory of Science 11 (1): 21-48. 1973.
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5John Locke: Problems and Perspectives (review)British Journal for the History of Science 5 (1): 101-102. 1970.
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5IndexIn Peter K. Machamer (ed.), Descartes's Changing Mind, Princeton University Press. pp. 251-258. 2009.
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18Eighteenth Century The Elements of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy. By Voltaire. Trans. John Hanna. London: Frank Cass. 1967. Pp. xvi + 363. 90s (review)British Journal for the History of Science 4 (3): 300-300. 1969.
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57Existence, actuality and necessity: Newton on space and timeAnnals of Science 35 (5): 463-508. 1978.This study considers Newton's views on space and time with respect to some important ontologies of substance in his period. Specifically, it deals in a philosophico-historical manner with his conception of substance, attribute, existence, to actuality and necessity. I show how Newton links these “features” of things to his conception of God's existence with respect of infinite space and time. Moreover, I argue that his ontology of space and time cannot be understood without fully appreciating ho…Read more
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