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some
current projects
I am guest editor of a
special 50th anniversary issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy dedicated to
“Newton and Newtonianism,” which will appear in September 2012. [table of contents]
I am working on a book
project that focuses on the interplay of mathematics, metaphysics, and
natural philosophy in the works of Descartes and Newton. My goal (however ambitious or
unreasonable) is to have the draft manuscript completed by summer 2013.
books
Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of
History and Philosophy of Science, edited with Michael Dickson
(Open Court, 2010; ISBN: 978-0-8126-9662-2). This collection honors Michael Friedman’s influential work in history
and philosophy of science and includes twenty-six original papers, one of
which is Friedman’s book-length concluding essay, “Synthetic History
Reconsidered.” Reviews of the
volume recently appeared in NDPR and Philosophy in Review.
recent
and forthcoming papers
“Observation and
Mathematics.” Forthcoming in The
Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century,
edited by Peter Anstey (Oxford University Press).
“Kant and Newton on the
A Priori Necessity of Geometry.” Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
“Newton and Proclus:
Geometry, Imagination, and Knowing Space.” Forthcoming in The Southern
Journal of Philosophy, September 2012.
“Locke’s Qualified
Embrace of Newton’s Principia.”
In Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays, edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser (Cambridge University Press, 2012),
pp. 48-68.
“Descartes’ Mathematics.” In The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 edition), Edward N. Zalta
(ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/descartes-mathematics/>.
“Kant on the
Imagination and Geometrical Certainty.” Perspectives
on Science (2010) 18 (4): 409-431.
“The Intelligibility of
Motion and Construction: Descartes’ Early Mathematics and Metaphysics,
1619-1637.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
(2009) 40: 119-130.
recent
book reviews
Review of Peter Machamer
and J.E.
McGuire, Descartes’
Changing Mind (Princeton University Press, 2009). HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society of
History and Philosophy of Science (2011) 1(1): 162-165.
Review of Niccolň
Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method
(The MIT Press, 2009). The Canadian
Journal of History (2010) 45: 614-617.
recent
talks
“Newton and Proclus:
Understanding the Geometry of Absolute Space.” Center for Philosophy of
Science, University of Pittsburgh, 24 January 2012. This talk was kindly
blogged about by John Norton here.
“Descartes, Newton, and
the Mathematical Character of Natural Philosophy.” Workshop on
“Knowledge, Representation, and Proof in the Modern Era,” Notre Dame
University, South Bend, IN, 3 November 2011; a previous version of this
paper was delivered as a Dean’s lecture at St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, 22 October 2010.
“Difference,
Disunity, and the Dialogue between Past and Present.” Philosophy and Its History: A Workshop
on Methods, Aims, and New Directions in the Scholarship of Early Modern
Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 29-30 October
2011
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