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@article{fds374560,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {A Tale of Two Forces: Metaphysics and its Avoidance in
             Newton’s Principia},
   Volume = {343},
   Pages = {223-242},
   Booktitle = {Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of
             Science},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41041-3_11},
   Abstract = {Isaac Newton did more than any other early modern figure to
             revolutionize natural philosophy, but he was often wary of
             other aspects of philosophy. He had an especially vexed
             relationship with metaphysics. As recent scholarship has
             highlighted, he often denounced metaphysical discussions,
             especially those in the Scholastic tradition (Levitin 2016).
             He insisted that he himself was not engaging with the aspect
             of philosophy that played such a prominent role in the work
             of his predecessors, especially Descartes, and his critics,
             especially Leibniz. However, in the Principia and the
             Opticks, along with correspondence and unpublished
             manuscripts, Newton expressed views about the gravity of
             bodies and the power of substances that place his thought
             squarely within the metaphysical tradition he sought to
             avoid. Alas, his famous reluctance to engage in disputes
             left even Newton’s supporters confused about his
             metaphysical ideas.},
   Doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-41041-3_11},
   Key = {fds374560}
}

@article{fds367070,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {Do forces exist? contesting the mechanical philosophy,
             I},
   Pages = {50-86},
   Booktitle = {Newton as Philosopher},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511481512.005},
   Doi = {10.1017/cbo9780511481512.005},
   Key = {fds367070}
}

@article{fds363729,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Émilie Du Châtelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of
             Gravity},
   Pages = {49-71},
   Booktitle = {Early Modern Women on Metaphysics},
   Year = {2018},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9781107178687},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316827192.004},
   Abstract = {When Émilie Du Châtelet published her magnum opus,
             Institutions de physique, in 1740, it was quickly met with
             excited reactions from mathematicians and philosophers
             throughout the Continent.1 Within a few short years, it was
             read and discussed by philosophers like Kant and Wolff and
             by mathematicians like the Bernoullis, Euler and
             D’Alembert.},
   Doi = {10.1017/9781316827192.004},
   Key = {fds363729}
}

@article{fds363035,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Émilie Du Châtelet’s Break from the French
             Newtonians},
   Journal = {Revue D'Histoire Des Sciences},
   Volume = {74},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {265-296},
   Year = {2021},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rhs.742.0265},
   Abstract = {In Madame Du Châtelet's milieu, many philosophers argued
             that Newton's physics allowed one to ignore metaphysics, or
             perhaps required a modest supplement from elements of
             Locke's metaphysics. In her Institutions physiques, Du
             Châtelet takes a radically different approach. She contends
             that Newton's science of gravity requires a foray into
             metaphysics, especially concerning the essence of matter.
             Using her version of the principle of sufficient reason, she
             also argues that Locke's metaphysics is not an appropriate
             supplement to the new science of gravity. I conclude that
             her approach is distinctive for the early
             Enlightenment.},
   Doi = {10.3917/rhs.742.0265},
   Key = {fds363035}
}

@article{fds367068,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {God and natural philosophy},
   Pages = {163-178},
   Booktitle = {Newton as Philosopher},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511481512.008},
   Doi = {10.1017/cbo9780511481512.008},
   Key = {fds367068}
}

@book{fds306214,
   Author = {Janiak, A and Schliesser, E},
   Title = {Interpreting Newton: Critical essays},
   Pages = {i-iv},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2012},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780521766180},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511994845},
   Abstract = {This collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading
             scholars presents new research on Isaac Newton and his main
             philosophical interlocutors and critics. The essays analyze
             Newton's relation to his contemporaries, especially Barrow,
             Descartes, Leibniz and Locke, and discuss the ways in which
             a broad range of figures, including Hume, Maclaurin,
             Maupertuis, and Kant, reacted to his thought. The wide range
             of topics discussed includes the laws of nature, the notion
             of force, the relation of mathematics to nature, Newton's
             argument for universal gravitation, his attitude toward
             philosophical empiricism, his use of “fluxions,” his
             approach toward measurement problems, and his concept of
             absolute motion, together with new interpretations of
             Newton's matter theory. The volume concludes with an
             extended essay that analyzes the changes in physics wrought
             by Newton's Principia. A substantial introduction and
             bibliography provide essential reference
             guides.},
   Doi = {10.1017/CBO9780511994845},
   Key = {fds306214}
}

@book{fds311980,
   Author = {Janiak, A and Schliesser, E},
   Title = {Introduction},
   Pages = {1-10},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2012},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780521766180},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511994845.001},
   Abstract = {It may be anachronistic to say that Isaac Newton and his
             Principia decisively changed physics and philosophy, because
             separate fields of physics and philosophy did not yet exist.
             But the notion of decisive change captures something
             significant about the continuing relevance of studying
             Newton. What has been aptly termed “Newton's new way of
             inquiry” (Harper and Smith 1995) was baffling for even his
             most sophisticated contemporaries, and it took Europe's
             brightest astronomers and mathematically inclined natural
             philosophers almost a century in order to evaluate and
             assimilate the Principia. But for reasons that need not
             detain us here, few of these figures (e.g., Clairaut, Euler,
             Laplace), who were fully immersed in Newton's work, really
             offered a definitive account of the methodology of the
             Principia. Of course, many scholars from Newton's day onward
             have offered interpretations of Newton's explicit
             methodological claims, but surprisingly few have combined
             this approach with detailed knowledge of Newton's technical
             practice. As is well known, by the time physics became
             enshrined as the leading part of the disciplinary structure
             of science, its attitude toward its own history did not
             encourage close scrutiny of past practices. In this volume,
             the three chapters on methodology by George Smith, William
             Harper, and Ori Belkind all capture important aspects of
             Newton's new way of inquiry. Newton also changed philosophy
             in two important ways. First, the body of work eventually
             known as “Newtonian mechanics” became a privileged form
             of knowledge that had to be dealt with somehow within
             metaphysics and epistemology. Second, it initiated a slow
             process in which philosophy defined itself in terms that
             often contrasted with – or were modeled on – Newtonian
             success. But as a consequence, in philosophy's evolving
             self-conception Newton stopped being central to the history
             of philosophy. Somewhat surprisingly, philosophical interest
             in Newton revived at the beginning of the twentieth century,
             precisely when his physical theory was called into question
             by Einstein's revolutionary work. Most of the papers in this
             volume engage with Newton's place within the history of
             philosophy. Before we turn to a detailed description of the
             chapters collected here, we offer a brief introduction to
             the scholarship that in many ways forms the shared
             background of recent philosophically motivated work on Isaac
             Newton.},
   Doi = {10.1017/CBO9780511994845.001},
   Key = {fds311980}
}

@article{fds244493,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Isaac Newton},
   Booktitle = {Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth
             Century},
   Publisher = {Oxford University Press},
   Year = {2013},
   Key = {fds244493}
}

@article{fds244494,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Kant as Philosopher of Science},
   Journal = {Perspectives on Science},
   Volume = {12},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {337-361},
   Publisher = {MIT Press - Journals},
   Year = {2004},
   Month = {June},
   ISSN = {1063-6145},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/1063614042795453},
   Abstract = {Michael Friedman's Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992)
             refocused scholarly attention on Kant's status as a
             philosopher of the sciences, especially (but not
             exclusively) of the broadly Newtonian science of the
             eighteenth century. The last few years have seen a plethora
             of articles and monographs concerned with characterizing
             that status. This recent scholarship illuminates Kant's
             views on a diverse group of topics: science and its relation
             to metaphysics; dynamics and the theory of matter; causation
             and Hume's critique of it; and, the limits of mechanism and
             of mechanical intelligibility. I argue that recent
             interpretations of Kant's views on these topics should
             influence our understanding of his principal metaphysical
             and epistemological arguments and positions. © 2004 by The
             Massachusetts Institute of Technology.},
   Doi = {10.1162/1063614042795453},
   Key = {fds244494}
}

@article{fds311983,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Kant's conception of moral character: The 'critical' link of
             morality, anthropology and reflective judgment},
   Journal = {History of Political Thought},
   Volume = {23},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {545-546},
   Year = {2002},
   ISSN = {0143-781X},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000178002300008&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Key = {fds311983}
}

@article{fds311981,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Kant, Herder and the birth of anthropology},
   Journal = {History of Political Thought},
   Volume = {25},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {163-164},
   Year = {2004},
   ISSN = {0143-781X},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000189176700012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Key = {fds311981}
}

@article{fds244497,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Kant, Herder and the Birth of Anthropology (U Chicago
             Press)},
   Journal = {History of Political Thought},
   Volume = {25},
   Year = {2003},
   Key = {fds244497}
}

@article{fds244495,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Kant’s Views on Space and Time},
   Series = {Spring 2009 edition},
   Booktitle = {Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
   Editor = {Zalta, E},
   Year = {2009},
   Key = {fds244495}
}

@article{fds244491,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Mathematics and infinity in Descartes and
             Newton},
   Pages = {209-230},
   Booktitle = {Mathematizing Space: the objects of geometry from Antiquity
             to the Early Modern Age},
   Publisher = {Birkhauser},
   Editor = {De Risi and V},
   Year = {2015},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12102-4_9},
   Abstract = {The concept of the infinite has often been regarded as
             inherently problematic in mathematics and in philosophy. The
             idea that the universe itself might be infinite has been the
             subject of intense debate not only on mathematical and
             philosophical grounds, but for theological and political
             reasons as well. When Copernicus and his followers
             challenged the old Aristotelian and Ptolemaic conceptions of
             the world’s finiteness, if not its boundedness, the idea
             of an infinite, if not merely unbounded, world seemed more
             attractive. Indeed, the infinity of space has been called
             the “fundamental principle of the new ontology” (Koyré
             in From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe. Johns
             Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1957, p. 126).
             Influential scholarship in the first half of the twentieth
             century helped to solidify the idea that it was specifically
             in the seventeenth century that astronomers and natural
             philosophers fully embraced the infinity of the universe. As
             Kuhn writes in his Copernican Revolution (1957, p. 289):
             “From Bruno ’s death in 1600 to the publication of
             Descartes ’s Principles of Philosophy in 1644, no
             Copernican of any prominence appears to have espoused the
             infinite universe, at least in public. After Descartes,
             however, no Copernican seems to have opposed the
             conception.” That same year saw the publication of
             Alexandre Koyré ’s sweeping volume about the scientific
             revolution, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe.
             The decision to describe and conceive of the world as
             infinite might be seen as a crucial, if not decisive, aspect
             of the overthrow of Scholasticism. As Kuhn and Koyré knew,
             one finds a particularly invigorating expression of this
             historical-philosophical interpretation in an earlier
             article by Marjorie Nicholson (Studies in Philology
             25:356–374, 1929, p. 370).},
   Doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-12102-4_9},
   Key = {fds244491}
}

@article{fds367065,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {Matter and mechanism: contesting the mechanical philosophy,
             II},
   Pages = {87-129},
   Booktitle = {Newton as Philosopher},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511481512.006},
   Doi = {10.1017/cbo9780511481512.006},
   Key = {fds367065}
}

@article{fds244505,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy in Descartes and
             Newton},
   Journal = {Foundations of Science},
   Volume = {18},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {403-417},
   Publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media LLC},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {August},
   ISSN = {1233-1821},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10699-011-9277-0},
   Abstract = {This paper compares Newton's and Descartes's conceptions of
             the complex relationship between physics and metaphysics. ©
             2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.},
   Doi = {10.1007/s10699-011-9277-0},
   Key = {fds244505}
}

@article{fds366192,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {NATURAL PHILOSOPHY},
   Pages = {385-409},
   Booktitle = {The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century
             Philosophy},
   Year = {2017},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780415775670},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315771960-14},
   Abstract = {During the seventeenth century, there was something
             approaching consensus about the methodological parameters of
             natural philosophy. Throughout the century, a debate raged
             about whether the natural philosopher could legitimately
             employ geometric and arithmetic methods to model and
             understand phenomena. It is probably safe to say that by the
             middle of the century, Rene Descartes had set the agenda of
             natural philosophy for philosophers throughout Europe. There
             can be no doubt that Newton made astonishing progress in
             using mathematical, especially geometric, methods in
             answering questions about the motions of bodies and the
             forces that cause them in Principia mathematica. The
             Cartesian conception of space, time, and motion, it is fair
             to say, set the stage for nearly all later discussions of
             the topics within natural philosophy in the seventeenth
             century. Descartes’s and Newton’s discussions of God
             within natural philosophy can make it tempting to conclude
             that they are parroting well-worn theological
             points.},
   Doi = {10.4324/9781315771960-14},
   Key = {fds366192}
}

@article{fds244502,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Newton and descartes: Theology and natural
             philosophy},
   Journal = {The Southern Journal of Philosophy},
   Volume = {50},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {414-435},
   Publisher = {WILEY},
   Year = {2012},
   Month = {September},
   ISSN = {0038-4283},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000308296900005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Abstract = {Scholars have long recognized that Newton regarded Descartes
             as his principal philosophical interlocutor when composing
             the first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
             Mathematica in 1687. The arguments in the Scholium on space
             and time, for instance, can profitably be interpreted as
             focusing on the conception of space and motion in part two
             of Descartes's Principles of Philosophy (1644). What is less
             well known, however, is that this Cartesian conception,
             along with Descartes's attempt to avoid Galileo's fate in
             1633, serves as an essential background to understanding
             Newton's own (poorly understood) view of the theological
             implications of his theory of space and motion. In
             particular, after withdrawing Le Monde from publication in
             1633 because of its Copernican leanings, Descartes later
             introduced what some regard as a "fudge factor" into the
             theory of motion in the Principles: from an ordinary
             perspective the earth does move; but from a philosophical
             one, it does not. This background indicates the novelty and
             originality of Newton's own attempt to explicate how
             scriptural passages concerning the motions of the heavenly
             bodies can be reconciled with the philosophical views he
             developed during the 1680s. New evidence from archival
             sources and correspondence supports this argument, shedding
             light on the Scholium and on Newton's conception of
             philosophy's relation to theology. © 2012 The University of
             Memphis.},
   Doi = {10.1111/j.2041-6962.2012.00130.x},
   Key = {fds244502}
}

@article{fds244506,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Newton and the reality of force},
   Journal = {Journal of the History of Philosophy},
   Volume = {45},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {127-147},
   Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
   Year = {2007},
   ISSN = {0022-5053},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000243762200006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Doi = {10.1353/hph.2007.0010},
   Key = {fds244506}
}

@book{fds244503,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Newton as philosopher},
   Pages = {1-196},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780521862868},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481512},
   Abstract = {Newton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely
             difficult to categorise. in the course of a long career from
             the early 1670s until his death in 1727, he articulated
             profound responses to Cartesian natural philosophy and to
             the prevailing mechanical philosophy of his day. Newton as
             Philosopher presents Newton as an original and sophisticated
             contributor to natural philosophy, one who engaged with the
             principal ideas of his most important predecessor, René
             Descartes, and of his most influential critic, G. W.
             Leibniz. Unlike Descartes and Leibniz, Newton was systematic
             and philosophical without presenting a philosophical system,
             but over the course of his life, he developed a novel
             picture of nature, our place within it, and its relation to
             the creator. This rich treatment of his philosophical ideas,
             the first in English for thirty years, will be of wide
             interest to historians of philosophy, science, and
             ideas.},
   Doi = {10.1017/CBO9780511481512},
   Key = {fds244503}
}

@article{fds367071,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Newton as philosopher, the very idea},
   Pages = {1-10},
   Booktitle = {NEWTON AS PHILOSOPHER},
   Year = {2008},
   Key = {fds367071}
}

@book{fds306213,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {Newton: Philosophical Writings},
   Series = {SECOND EDITION},
   Pages = {199 pages},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Editor = {Janiak, A},
   Year = {2014},
   Key = {fds306213}
}

@article{fds244492,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Newton’s Forces in Kant’s Critique},
   Booktitle = {Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of
             History and Philosophy of Science},
   Publisher = {Open Court Press},
   Editor = {Dickson, M and Domski, M},
   Year = {2010},
   Key = {fds244492}
}

@article{fds244496,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Newton’s Philosophy},
   Series = {SECOND EDITION},
   Booktitle = {Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy},
   Publisher = {S},
   Editor = {Zalta, E},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {May},
   Key = {fds244496}
}

@article{fds367066,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {Physics and metaphysics: three interpretations},
   Pages = {11-49},
   Booktitle = {Newton as Philosopher},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511481512.004},
   Doi = {10.1017/cbo9780511481512.004},
   Key = {fds367066}
}

@article{fds371295,
   Author = {Gessell, B and Janiak, A},
   Title = {Physics and optics: Agnesi, Bassi, Du Châtelet},
   Pages = {174-186},
   Booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European
             Philosophy},
   Year = {2023},
   Month = {June},
   ISBN = {9781138212756},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315450001-17},
   Doi = {10.4324/9781315450001-17},
   Key = {fds371295}
}

@article{fds367069,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {Preface},
   Pages = {vii-x},
   Booktitle = {Newton as Philosopher},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511481512.001},
   Doi = {10.1017/cbo9780511481512.001},
   Key = {fds367069}
}

@article{fds244499,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Review of Garber and Longuenesse, Kant and the early Moderns
             (Princeton Press)},
   Journal = {Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews},
   Year = {2009},
   Key = {fds244499}
}

@article{fds244498,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Review of Thomas Holden, The Architecture of
             Matter},
   Journal = {Mind},
   Volume = {115},
   Number = {460},
   Pages = {1130-1133},
   Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
   Year = {2006},
   Month = {October},
   ISSN = {0026-4423},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000241277400017&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Doi = {10.1093/mind/fzl1130},
   Key = {fds244498}
}

@article{fds311982,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Science and religion (Steven Weinberg's review of Richard
             Dawkins's The 'God Delusion')},
   Journal = {Tls the Times Literary Supplement},
   Number = {5418},
   Pages = {17-17},
   Year = {2007},
   ISSN = {0307-661X},
   url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000244376500018&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
   Key = {fds311982}
}

@article{fds311979,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Space and motion in nature and Scripture: Galileo,
             Descartes, Newton.},
   Journal = {Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part
             A},
   Volume = {51},
   Pages = {89-99},
   Year = {2015},
   Month = {June},
   ISSN = {0039-3681},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.02.004},
   Abstract = {In the Scholium to the Definitions in Principia mathematica,
             Newton departs from his main task of discussing space, time
             and motion by suddenly mentioning the proper method for
             interpreting Scripture. This is surprising, and it has long
             been ignored by scholars. In this paper, I argue that the
             Scripture passage in the Scholium is actually far from
             incidental: it reflects Newton's substantive concern, one
             evident in correspondence and manuscripts from the 1680s,
             that any general understanding of space, time and motion
             must enable readers to recognize the veracity of Biblical
             claims about natural phenomena, including the motion of the
             earth. This substantive concern sheds new light on an aspect
             of Newton's project in the Scholium. It also underscores
             Newton's originality in dealing with the famous problem of
             reconciling theological and philosophical conceptions of
             nature in the seventeenth century.},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.02.004},
   Key = {fds311979}
}

@article{fds367067,
   Author = {A. Janiak},
   Title = {Space in physics and metaphysics: contra
             Descartes},
   Pages = {130-162},
   Booktitle = {Newton as Philosopher},
   Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511481512.007},
   Doi = {10.1017/cbo9780511481512.007},
   Key = {fds367067}
}

@article{fds331597,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Space, atoms and mathematical divisibility in
             Newton},
   Journal = {Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part
             A},
   Volume = {31},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {203-230},
   Year = {2000},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0039-3681(00)00003-0},
   Doi = {10.1016/S0039-3681(00)00003-0},
   Key = {fds331597}
}

@book{fds303572,
   Title = {Space: history of a concept},
   Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
   Editor = {Janiak, A},
   Year = {2015},
   Month = {January},
   Key = {fds303572}
}

@article{fds244500,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton},
   Journal = {The Monist},
   Volume = {93},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {657-677},
   Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
   Editor = {Sugden, SJB},
   Year = {2010},
   ISSN = {0026-9662},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/monist201093437},
   Doi = {10.5840/monist201093437},
   Key = {fds244500}
}

@article{fds244501,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {The Kantian Spirit: how to resist realism in the philosophy
             of science (Review Essay)},
   Journal = {Metascience},
   Volume = {20},
   Pages = {153-157},
   Year = {2011},
   Key = {fds244501}
}

@article{fds244504,
   Author = {Janiak, A},
   Title = {Three concepts of causation in Newton},
   Journal = {Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part
             A},
   Volume = {44},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {396-407},
   Publisher = {Elsevier BV},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {September},
   ISSN = {0039-3681},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.10.009},
   Abstract = {In this paper, I argue that recent debates about Newton's
             attitude toward action at a distance have been hampered by a
             lack of conceptual clarity. To clarify the metaphysical
             background of the debates, I distinguish three kinds of
             causes within Newton's work: mechanical, dynamical, and
             substantial causes. This threefold distinction enables us to
             recognize that although Newton clearly regards gravity as an
             impressed force that operates across vast distances, he
             denies that this commitment requires him to think that some
             substance acts at a distance on another substance.
             (Dynamical causation is distinct from substantial
             causation.) Newton's denial of substantial action at a
             distance may strike his interpreters as questionable, so I
             provide an argument to show that it is in fact acceptable.
             © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.10.009},
   Key = {fds244504}
}


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