| Andrew Janiak, Creed C. Black Professor of Philosophy
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 209 West Duke Building | Office Phone: | +1 919-660-3057, +1 919-660-3050 | Email Address: | | 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)
Teaching (Fall 2024):
- PHIL 201.01, HST MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Synopsis
- East Duke 204D, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- PHIL 629S.02, TOPICS HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Synopsis
- West Duke 204, Tu 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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943 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]
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