• Locke, Sydenham and the 'Tyrrell Memoir'
    Studi Lockiani 2023. 2023.
    This paper examines the contents of the sixth paragraph of the “Tyrrell Memoir”. This paragraph makes some strong, critical claims about both Locke’s “obsession” with the London physician Thomas Sydenham, and his purported dismissive attitude towards another physician, Richard Lower. In the paragraph, Tyrrell sides with the First Earl of Shaftesbury’s mocking attitude towards the triumvirate Locke, his close friend David Thomas, and Sydenham, and relates some extraordinary and hitherto unknown a…Read more
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    This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the mid-1740s to the 1790s, and in so doing provides a robust new instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a historiography of philosophy at this important Enlightenment institution. The collection ranges from discussions of the roles of philosophy and natural philosophy in the formation of the reinvigorated Academy in the mid-1740s, to conceptions of …Read more
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    The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite being associated with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, David Hume and Christian Wolff. Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to the uptake of experimental philosophy in Paris and Berlin in the eighteenth, this book provides new …Read more
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    Armstrong's Materialist Theory of Mind (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2022.
    Armstrong's Materialist Theory of Mind is one of a handful of texts that began the physicalist revolution in the philosophy of mind. In this collection, distinguished philosophers examine what we still owe to it, how to expand it, as well as looking back on how it came about.
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    Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its output is largely unknown to the West. This collection makes available in English for the first time the fruits of recent Japanese research, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale. Covering three important areas of Locke's philosophical thought – knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration – this volume criticizes established interpretations a…Read more
  • Locke and non-propositional knowledge
    In Kiyoshi Shimokawa & Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Locke on Knowledge, Politics and Religion: New Interpretations From Japan, Bloomsbury Academic. 2021.
    Peter Anstey rejects the widespread view that all knowledge for Locke is propositional. He argues, instead, that Locke accepts a form of non-propositional knowledge. The perception of the agreement and disagreement of ideas, according to Anstey's interpretation, is akin to what Bertrand Russell called “knowledge by acquaintance.” He presents a careful, four-step analysis of Locke’s view of the acquisition of knowledge, which is designed to show how the mind proceeds from perceiving to affirming,…Read more
  • Early modern experimental philosophers were opposed to speculation, and yet many endorsed speculative theories. This chapter gives a partial explanation of why this is so, using Robert Boyle’s acceptance and promotion of the corpuscular philosophy as a case study. It argues that, in addition to furnishing experimental evidence for the corpuscular hypothesis in his Forms and Qualities, Boyle attempted to establish its epistemic superiority over other speculative theories on the grounds that it is…Read more
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    Introduction
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (2): 155-157. 2006.
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    L’Oeuvre de Boyle est arrivé!
    Metascience 10 (3): 392-400. 2001.
  • This chapter examines Francis Bacon's influence on Buffon's and Diderot's conceptions of natural history.
  • Locke and Cartesian cosmology
    In Philippe Hamou & Martine Pécharman (eds.), Locke and Cartesian Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2018.
    This chapter examines John Locke's interest in and views on the Cartesian vortex theory.
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    Locke on knowledge
    In Stephen Gaukroger (ed.), Knowledge in Modern Philosophy. 2018.
    This chapter provides an overview of John Locke's theory of knowledge.
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    Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was far from the only natural philosophical method on the scene. In particular, experimental philosophy was contrasted with and set against speculative philosophy and, in some quarters, was accused of tending to irreligion. This volume brings together ten scholars of early modern philosophy, history and s…Read more
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    Primary sources review
    Metascience 9 (3): 338-346. 2000.
  • Newton and Locke
    The Oxford Handbook to Newton. 2017.
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    Francis Bacon and the Classification of Natural History
    Early Science and Medicine 17 (1): 11-31. 2012.
    This paper analyses the place of natural history within Bacon's divisions of the sciences in The Advancement of Learning and the later De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum. It is shown that at various points in Bacon's divisions, natural history converges or overlaps with natural philosophy, and that, for Bacon, natural history and natural philosophy are not discrete disciplines. Furthermore, it is argued that Bacon's distinction between operative and speculative natural philosophy and the plac…Read more
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    Locke, the Quakers and enthusiasm
    Intellectual History Review 29 (2): 199-217. 2019.
  • John Locke (1632-1704).
    Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. 2017.
  • A very principled project
    Humanities Australia 8 80-85. 2017.
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    Locke and the problem of necessity in early modern philosophy.
    In Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares & Adriane Rini (eds.), Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 174-193. 2016.
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    Locke and Natural Philosophy
    In Matthew Stuart (ed.), A Companion to Locke, Wiley-blackwell Publishing. pp. 64-81. 2015.
    There are at least three deep and yet creative tensions in John Locke's writings on the knowledge of the natural world. An exposition of these tensions provides the framework for this chapter. The chapter provides an account of the development of Locke's views from his early medical essays of the late 1660s to his last published writings on natural philosophy. The central locus for Locke's "philosophy of science" will be the Essay. Chymical medicine provided the main field in which Locke was reg…Read more