Andrew Janiak

Journal article Revue D Histoire Des Sciences · July 1, 2021 In Madame Du Châtelet's milieu, many philosophers argued that Newton's physics allowed one to ignore metaphysics, or perhaps required a modest supplement from elements of Locke's metaphysics. In her Institutions physiques, Du Châtelet takes a radically dif ... Full text Cite

Introduction

Journal article Space A History · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Space and motion in nature and Scripture: Galileo, Descartes, Newton.

Journal article Studies in history and philosophy of science · June 2015 Featured Publication In the Scholium to the Definitions in Principia mathematica, Newton departs from his main task of discussing space, time and motion by suddenly mentioning the proper method for interpreting Scripture. This is surprising, and it has long been ignored by sch ... Full text Cite

Three concepts of causation in Newton

Journal article Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A · September 1, 2013 Featured Publication In this paper, I argue that recent debates about Newton's attitude toward action at a distance have been hampered by a lack of conceptual clarity. To clarify the metaphysical background of the debates, I distinguish three kinds of causes within Newton's wo ... Full text Cite

Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy in Descartes and Newton

Journal article Foundations of Science · August 2013 Full text Cite

Newton and descartes: Theology and natural philosophy

Journal article Southern Journal of Philosophy · September 1, 2012 Scholars have long recognized that Newton regarded Descartes as his principal philosophical interlocutor when composing the first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687. The arguments in the Scholium on space and time, for instance ... Full text Cite

Substance and Action in Descartes and Newton

Journal article Monist · 2010 Full text Cite

Science and religion (Steven Weinberg's review of Richard Dawkins's The 'God Delusion')

Journal article TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT · February 2, 2007 Link to item Cite

Newton and the reality of force

Journal article JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY · January 2007 Full text Link to item Cite

Review: The Architecture of Matter

Journal article Mind · October 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Kant as philosopher of science

Journal article Perspectives on Science · September 1, 2004 Michael Friedman's Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992) refocused scholarly attention on Kant's status as a philosopher of the sciences, especially (but not exclusively) of the broadly Newtonian science of the eighteenth century. The last few years have seen ... Full text Cite

Andrew Janiak

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Émilie Du Châtelet’s Break from the French Newtonians