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Andrew Janiak, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, and Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Philosophy (2005-06)
Office Location: | 201G West Duke Building |
Office Phone: | +1 919-660-3057, +1 919-660-3050 |
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Teaching (Spring 2024):
- PHIL 331.01, KANT
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 216, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- PHIL 541S.01, HIST/PHIL PERSPECT ON SCIENCE
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 118, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as GSF 541S.01, HISTORY 577S.01, LIT 521S.01)
- Friedl Bdg 118, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. Indiana University at Bloomington 2001 M.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1996 B.A. Hampshire College 1994
- Specialties:
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Philosophy of Science
- 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.
- Areas of Interest:
- History of Early Modern Philosophy
History of Philosophy of Science
- Keywords:
- Newton • Kant • Science • Philosophy
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Adela Deanova
- Patrick Connolly
- Adela Deanova
- Hylarie Kochiras
- Postdocs Mentored
- Orlin Vakarelov (2012/05-present)
- Recent Publications
(More 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]