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Andrew Janiak

Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
201 West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC

Selected Presentations & Appearances


The struggle of theology and philosophy in Descartes & Newton · November 26, 2013 Lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
The Leibnizian background to Chatelet · November 26, 2013 Lecture Oxford University, Mansfield College
The struggle of theology and philosophy in Galileo, Descartes & Newton · November 26, 2013 Lecture Hendrix College, Arkansas
Theology, philosophy, and the problem of the earth’s motion · November 26, 2013 Lecture Stanford University
Keynote: Isaac Newton, philosopher · November 26, 2013 Lecture Halifax, Nova Scotia, Newton conference
The struggle of theology and philosophy in Descartes & Newton · November 26, 2013 Lecture Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
The Leibnizian background to Chatelet · November 26, 2013 Lecture Oxford University, Mansfield College
The struggle of theology and philosophy in Galileo, Descartes & Newton · November 26, 2013 Lecture Hendrix College, Arkansas
Theology, philosophy, and the problem of the earth’s motion · November 26, 2013 Lecture Stanford University
Keynote: Isaac Newton, philosopher · November 26, 2013 Lecture Halifax, Nova Scotia, Newton conference
Logical and real meaning in Kant · December 1, 2010 Lecture Claremont-McKenna College

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Evolving Curricula for Digital Humanities Publishing · 2023 - 2024 Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - Story+ · 2022 - 2023 Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Conducting Philosophical Research on the Margins · 2022 - 2023 Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Training a New Generation of Collaborative Scholars · 2021 - 2022 Projects & Field Work Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Recovering the World of Women Philosophers in Early Modern Europe · 2020 - 2021 Projects & Field Work Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Evolving Curricula for Digital Humanities Publishing · 2023 - 2024 Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - Story+ · 2022 - 2023 Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Conducting Philosophical Research on the Margins · 2022 - 2023 Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Training a New Generation of Collaborative Scholars · 2021 - 2022 Projects & Field Work Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox: Recovering the World of Women Philosophers in Early Modern Europe · 2020 - 2021 Projects & Field Work Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Team Leader - Project Vox · 2019 - 2020 Projects & Field Work Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader - Project Vox · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work

Primary Theme: Education & Human Development

Philosophy is a surprisingly static enterprise: the canonical figures in early modern philosophy, from Descartes and Locke to Hume and Kant, have remained essentially fixed in teaching and research for the past 50 years. The all-male canon reflects the fact that women were often excluded from early modern intellectual life, which centered on universities like Oxford and institutions like the Acad ;mie Royales des Sciences in Paris. New historical research demonstrates that many women managed nonetheless to publish philosophical works in French, German and English. Until very recently, however, college courses throughout the English-speaking world have neglected them.

Service to the Profession


Refereed for Oxford University Press, Routledge, University of Pittsburgh Press : Referee for journals & University Presses · November 26, 2013 Other

Service to Duke


Bass Connections Faculty Advisory Council (Program) · 2012 - 2014 Committee Service