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| Research Interests for Andrew Janiak
Research Interests:
Andrew Janiak (M.A. 1996, Michigan; Ph.D.
2001, Indiana) joined the
Duke faculty in 2002, and is affiliated with Duke's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Most recently, he was a
postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute
for
the History of Science and Technology at MIT,
having previously
been a doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University. In the fall, he participated in a conference on the work of Michael Friedman entitled Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge.
Recent publications and work in
progress:
Newton and the Development of
Modern Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, under contract).
Edited and introduced, Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (Cambridge
University Press, 2004), xl + 148.
"Newton and the Reality of Force," Journal of the History
of Philosophy 45 (January 2007): forthcoming, 39 pages.
"Kant as Philosopher of Science,"
Perspectives on Science 12 (2004).
"Newton's Forces in Kant's Critique," in Michael Dickson and Mary Domski, editors, Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge (Open Court Press, forthcoming).
"Space, Atoms
and Mathematical Divisibility in Newton,"
Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science 31 (2000).
With George Smith and Eric Schliesser,
"Newton and Newtonianism," Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in progress.
Review of Thomas Holden, The Architecture of Matter (OUP) for Mind, forthcoming.- Keywords:
- Metaphysics, Physics, Space
- Areas of Interest:
- History of Early Modern Philosophy
History of Philosophy of Science
- Recent Publications
- Gessell, B; Janiak, A, Physics and optics: Agnesi, Bassi, Du Châtelet,
in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy
(June, 2023),
pp. 174-186, ISBN 9781138212756 [doi]
- Janiak, A, A Tale of Two Forces: Metaphysics and its Avoidance in Newton’s Principia,
in Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 343
(January, 2023),
pp. 223-242 [doi] [abs]
- Janiak, A, Émilie Du Châtelet’s Break from the French Newtonians,
Revue D'Histoire Des Sciences, vol. 74 no. 2
(July, 2021),
pp. 265-296 [doi] [abs]
- Janiak, A, Émilie Du Châtelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of Gravity,
in Early Modern Women on Metaphysics
(January, 2018),
pp. 49-71, ISBN 9781107178687 [doi] [abs]
- Janiak, A, NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,
in The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy
(January, 2017),
pp. 385-409, ISBN 9780415775670 [doi] [abs]
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