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| Andrew Janiak, Professor of Philosophy
 Teaching (Fall 2025):
- Phil 201.01, Hst modern philosophy
Synopsis
- East duke 108, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- Phil 629s.01, Topics history of philosophy
Synopsis
- West duke 204, W 03:20 PM-05:50 PM
- Office Hours:
- This semester: WED 2-4PM and by appointment.
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.
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- 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]
- 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]
- Janiak, A. "Émilie Du Châtelet’s Break from the French Newtonians." Revue D'Histoire Des Sciences 74:2 (July,
2021): 265-296. [doi] [abs]
- Janiak, A. "Émilie Du Châtelet: Physics, Metaphysics and the Case of Gravity." Early Modern Women on Metaphysics (January,
2018): 49-71. [doi] [abs]
- Janiak, A. "NATURAL PHILOSOPHY." The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy (January,
2017): 385-409. [doi] [abs]
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