Rationis Defensor by James Maclaurin
Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and which has twice been judged as the strongest research department across all disciplines in governmental research assessments. Colin is the immediate past President of the Australasian Association for Philosophy (New Zealand Division). He is the author of Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism (Springer, 2001) and the editor, with Vladimir Svoboda and Bjorn Jespersen, of Pavel Tichy’s Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy (University of Otago Press, 2005) and, with John Worrall, of Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave (Springer, 2006). This volume celebrates the dedication to rational enquiry and the philosophical style of Colin Cheyne. It also celebrates the distinctive brand of naturalistic philosophy for which Otago has become known. Contributors to the volume include a wide variety of philosophers, all with a personal connection to Colin, and all of whom are, in their own way, defenders of rationality. -
Scientific Mistakes and Mistaken Science
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Dissolving Naturalism and Historicism Into Each Other
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Intuitionism Resocialized
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John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence
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Cartesian Empiricisms
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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
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A Subtle and Mysterious Machine
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Rationality and Reality
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The Discourse of Sensibility
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Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
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The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism
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The Force of an Idea
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Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion
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Descartes-Agonistes
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Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes
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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge
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How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making
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Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy
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Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception
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The Responsibility of Science
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Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Reconsidering Historical Epistemology
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Quantum Causality
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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics
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Empiricist Theories of Space
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An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World
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Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology
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Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity
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Causation and Laws of Nature
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Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science
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1543 and All That
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Trees of Life
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From Discrete to Continuous
From the reviews:
“This collection of recent philosophical papers … provides a nice selection of the current debates and crucial issues at play in philosophy… To the potential reader this collection contains a solid sampling of modern philosophy that showcases a strong defence of rationality and the progress made in the philosophical method. … If you are interested in reading an example of what philosophers have been up to lately then pick up a copy of Rationis Defensor. You will not be disappointed.” (Charles Gibson, Scoop Review of Books, February, 2013)
Maclaurin, James: - James Maclaurin is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789401780827 |
| ISBN 10 | 940178082X |
| Title | Rationis Defensor |
| Author | James Maclaurin |
| Series | Studies In History And Philosophy Of Science |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2014-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
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