Andrew Janiak, Philosophy and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	201G West Duke Building
Office Phone:	+1 919-660-3057, +1 919-660-3050
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

• PHIL 99FCS.01, THE FACES OF SCIENCE Synopsis

  Allen 318, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• PHIL 331.01, SEMINAR SPECIAL FIELDS

  West Duke 100, F 11:30 AM-02:10 PM

• PHIL 241S.01, HIST/PHIL PERSP ON SCIENCE Synopsis

  Carr 137, Th 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

• LIT 241S.01, HIST/PHIL PERSPECT ON SCIENCE Synopsis

  Carr 137, Th 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

• CULANTH 241S.01, HIST/PHIL PERSPECT ON SCIENCE

  Carr 137, Th 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

• WOMENST 241S.01, HIST/PHIL PERSPECT ON SCIENCE

  Carr 137, Th 01:15 PM-03:45 PM

Specialties:

History of Early Modern Philosophy
History and Philosophy of Science

Research Interests:

Andrew Janiak (M.A. 1996, Michigan; Ph.D. 2001, Indiana) joined the Duke faculty in 2002. He is affiliated with Duke's Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and with the new Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at Duke. 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.

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.

"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 (August 2005).

Review of Thomas Holden, The Architecture of Matter (OUP) for Mind, forthcoming.

Upcoming talks:

"Newton and occult qualities," University of California, Irvine, November 2005

"Isaac Newton and the boundaries of science," John Hope Franklin Center, Duke, November 2005

"Isaac Newton and the scientific invention of modern philosophy," Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Duke, February 2006

Areas of Interest:

History of Early Modern Philosophy, 
History of Philosophy of Science