Andrew Janiak, Professor of Philosophy

Andrew Janiak
Office Location:  201 West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-3057
Email Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://projectvox.library.duke.edu

Teaching (Spring 2024):

Teaching (Fall 2024):

Office Hours:

This semester: WED 2-4PM and by appointment.
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Philosophy of Science
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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.
    • Recent Publications   (More Publications)
    1. Gessell, B; Janiak, A. "Physics and optics: Agnesi, Bassi, Du Châtelet." The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy  (June, 2023): 174-186. [doi]
    2. Janiak, A. "A Tale of Two Forces: Metaphysics and its Avoidance in Newton’s Principia." Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 343 (January, 2023): 223-242. [doi]  [abs]
    3. Janiak, A. "Émilie Du Châtelet’s Break from the French Newtonians." Revue D'Histoire Des Sciences 74:2 (July, 2021): 265-296. [doi]  [abs]
    4. Janiak, A. "Émilie Du Châtelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of Gravity." Early Modern Women on Metaphysics  (January, 2018): 49-71. [doi]  [abs]
    5. Janiak, A. "NATURAL PHILOSOPHY." The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy  (January, 2017): 385-409. [doi]  [abs]