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    Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1999 - University of Chicago Press.
    Hobbes and Wallis's "battle of the books" illuminates the intimate relationship between science and crucial seventeenth-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God.
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    (1 other version)Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1993 - University of Chicago Press. Edited by Kenneth Winkler.
    In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work.
  3. (2 other versions)Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3):927-928.
     
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  4. Hobbes's atheism.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2002 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1):(2002), 140–166.
  5. Leibniz on The Elimination of Infinitesimals.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2015 - In G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations Between Mathematics and Philosophy. Springer Verlag.
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    De Motu and the Analyst: A Modern Edition, with Introductions and Commentary.George Berkeley & Douglas Michael Jesseph - 1991 - Springer.
    Berkeley's philosophy has been much studied and discussed over the years, and a growing number of scholars have come to the realization that scientific and mathematical writings are an essential part of his philosophical enterprise. The aim of this volume is to present Berkeley's two most important scientific texts in a form which meets contemporary standards of scholarship while rendering them accessible to the modern reader. Although editions of both are contained in the fourth volume of the Works, these lack (...)
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  7. Leibniz on the Foundations of the Calculus: The Question of the Reality of Infinitesimal Magnitudes.Douglas Michael Jesseph - 1998 - Perspectives on Science 6 (1):6-40.
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    Logic and demonstrative knowledge.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2013 - In Peter R. Anstey (ed.), The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 373--90.
    This chapter examines the views of seventeenth-century British philosophers on the notion of logic and demonstrative knowledge, particularly Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, offering an overview of traditional Aristotelianism in relation to logic and describing Bacon's approach to demonstration and logic. It also analyzes the contribution of the Cambridge Platonists and evaluates the influence of Cartesianism. The chapter concludes that theorizing about logic and demonstrative knowledge followed an arc familiar from other branches of philosophy such as metaphysics or (...)
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    Hobbes on the Foundations of Natural Philosophy.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2013 - In Aloysius Martinich & Kinch Hoekstra (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter is concerned with the foundations of Hobbes’s natural philosophy, notably his account of space and time, as well as an inertial law the author terms the “persistence principle” and a mechanistic principle of action by contact. The author argues that these foundational concepts and principles serve as a framework that places constraints upon the kinds of hypotheses that may figure in the explanation of phenomena, but they do not uniquely determine how natural philosophy is to be developed. In (...)
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  10. Galileo, Hobbes, and the book of nature.Douglas Michael Jesseph - 2004 - Perspectives on Science 12 (2):191-211.
    : This paper investigates the influence of Galileo's natural philosophy on the philosophical and methodological doctrines of Thomas Hobbes. In particular, I argue that what Hobbes took away from his encounter with Galileo was the fundamental idea that the world is a mechanical system in which everything can be understood in terms of mathematically-specifiable laws of motion. After tracing the history of Hobbes's encounters with Galilean science (through the "Welbeck group" connected with William Cavendish, earl of Newcastle and the "Mersenne (...)
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    Hobbes and Mathematical Method.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1993 - Perspectives on Science 1 (1993):306-341.
    This article examines Hobbes’s conception of mathematical method, situating his methodological writings in the context of disputed mathematical issues of the seventeenth century. After a brief exposition of the Hobbesian philosophy of mathematics, it investigates Hobbes’s attempts to resolve three important mathematical controversies of the seventeenth century: the debates over the status of analytic geometry, disputes over the nature of ratios, and the problem of the “angle of contact” between a curve and tangent. In the course of these investigations, Hobbes’s (...)
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    (2 other versions)Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy.Roger Ariew, Dennis Des Chene, Douglas Michael Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz & Theo Verbeek - 2003 - Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. Edited by Dennis Des Chene, Douglas Michael Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz & Theo Verbeek.
    This is a dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy, primarily covering philosophy in the 17th century, with a chronology and biography of Descartes's life and times and a bibliography of primary and secondary works related to Descartes and to Cartesians.
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  13. Berkeley, God, and Explanation.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2005 - In Christia Mercer (ed.), Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics. New York, US: Oxford University Press.
    This paper analyzes Berkeley's arguments for the existence of God in the Principles of Human Knowledge, Three Dialogues, and Alciphron. Where most scholarship has interpreted Berkeley as offering three quite distinct attempted proofs of God's existence, I argue that these are all variations on the strategy of inference to the best explanation. I also consider how this reading of Berkeley connects his conception of God to his views about causation and explanation.
     
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    G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations Between Mathematics and Philosophy.Douglas M. Jesseph (ed.) - 2015 - Springer Verlag.
    Early in his mathematical career Leibniz discovered some important methods and results but had to recognize that his findings had been anticipated by other mathematicians such as Pierre de Fermat, James Gregory, Isaac Newton, François Regnauld, John Wallis, etc. This paper investigates the cases of Isaac Barrow and Pietro Mengoli who, earlier than Leibniz, had been familiar with the characteristic triangle, transmutations methods, the inverse connection between determining tangents and areas of curves or the sums of the reciprocal figurate numbers, (...)
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    The a to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy.Roger Ariew, Dennis Des Chene, Douglas M. Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz & Theo Verbeek - 2010 - Scarecrow Press.
    The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and cross-reference dictionary entries Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings, as well as entries on those who supported him, those who criticized him, those who corrected him, and those who together formed one of the major movements in philosophy, Cartesianism.
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  16. Berkeley’s World: An Examination of the Three Dialogues.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2004 - Philosophical Review 113 (4):571-574.
    This is a puzzling book. On the one hand, Stoneham insists that “we cannot appreciate the contributions made by philosophers like Berkeley without coming to terms with the full breadth and detail of his thought”. On the other hand, his interpretive efforts are directed almost exclusively at the Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous—a work Berkeley intended as a popular recasting of his doctrines and one that scholars generally regard as conspicuously lacking the “full breadth and detail” of his philosophy. (...)
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    Descartes, Pascal, and the epistemology of mathematics: The case of the cycloid.Douglas Michael Jesseph - 2007 - Perspectives on Science 15 (4):410-433.
    This paper deals with the very different attitudes that Descartes and Pascal had to the cycloid—the curve traced by the motion of a point on the periphery of a circle as the circle rolls across a right line. Descartes insisted that such a curve was merely mechanical and not truly geometric, and so was of no real mathematical interest. He nevertheless responded to enquiries from Mersenne, who posed the problems of determining its area and constructing its tangent. Pascal, in contrast, (...)
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    Hobbes, the Scriblerians and the History of Philosophy by Conal Condren.Douglas M. Jesseph - 2014 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (3):614-615.
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    Philosophical Theory and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1989 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 20 (2):215.
    It is argued that, contrary to the standard accounts of the development of infinitesimal mathematics, the leading mathematicians of the seventeenth century were deeply concerned with the rigor of their methods. examples are taken from the work of cavalieri and leibniz, with further material drawn from guldin, barrow, and wallis.
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    The decline and fall of Hobbesian geometry.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1999 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 30 (3):425-453.
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    Margaret Atherton, "Berkeley's Revolution in Vision". [REVIEW]Douglas Michael Jesseph - 1992 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (2):306.
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    Review of Gerhard Preyer, Georg Peter (eds.), Philosophy of Mathematics: Set Theory, Measuring Theories, and Nominalism[REVIEW]Douglas M. Jesseph - 2009 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (4).
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    Stephen Gaukroger. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 572. $85.00 ; $45.00 .Stephen Gaukroger. The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680–1760. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 464. $65.00. [REVIEW]Douglas M. Jesseph - 2011 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (2):317-328.
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    Vincenzo De Risi. Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry: The Unpublished Manuscripts. vi + 195 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. $119. [REVIEW]Douglas M. Jesseph - 2017 - Isis 108 (3):695-696.
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