Professor STEPHEN GAUKROGER
The University of Aberdeen
School of Divinity, History & Philosophy
Chair in Philosophy
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Chair in Philosophy
BA (London), MA, PhD (Cambridge), FAHA
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Research Interests
History of early modern science and philosophy; philosophy of sceince; history of analytic philosophy.
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Current Research
The emergence of a scientific culture, 1680-1760
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External Responsibilities
Co-editor, Intellectual History Review
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Publications
Contributions to Journals
Articles
- Gaukroger, S. (2009). 'The Role of Natural Philosophy in the Development of Locke’s Empiricism'. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, vol 17, no. 1, pp. 55-83.
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/09608780802548275 - Gaukroger, S. (2008). 'The Académie des Sciences and the Republic of Letters: Fontenelle and The Shaping of a New Natural-Philosophical Persona, 1699-1734'. Intellectual History Review, vol 18, no. 3, pp. 385-402.
[Online] DOI: 10.1080/17496970802319284
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings
Chapters
- Gaukroger, S. (2011). 'Picturability and the Mathematical Ideals of Knowledge'. D Clarke & C Wilson (eds), in: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe. Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 338-360.
- Gaukroger, S. (2011). 'Descartes'. S Bernecker & D Pritchard (eds), in: The Routledge Companion to Epistemology. Routledge Philosophy Companions, Routledge, Abington, United Kingdom, pp. 678-686.
- Gaukroger, S. (2010). 'Descartes' Theory of Perceptual Cognition and the Question of Moral Sensibility'. J Cottingham & P Hacker (eds), in: Mind, Method, and Morality: Essays in honour of Anthony Kenny. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 230-251.
- Gaukroger, S. (2010). 'The Unity of Natural Philosophy and the End of Scientia'. T Sorell, GAJ Rogers & J Kraye (eds), in: Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Springer Science+Business Media, New York, NY, USA, pp. 19-34.
- Gaukroger, S. (2009). 'The Unity of Knowledge: Natural-Philosophical Foundations of Spinoza's Politico-Theology'. V Alexandrescu (ed.), in: Branching off: The Early Moderns in the Quest for the Unity of Knowledge. Zeta Books, Bucharest, pp. 140-166.
- Gaukroger, S. (2008). 'Bacons Psychologie von Wahrnehmungskognition'. D Perler & M Wild (eds), in: See and understand: Theories of perception in the early modern period. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, Germany, pp. 71-94.
- Gaukroger, S. (2008). 'Life and Works'. J Broughton & J Carriero (eds), in: A Companion to Descartes. Blackwell Pub., Oxford, UK, pp. 3-16.
- Gaukroger, S. (2007). 'Biography as a Route to Understanding Early Modern Natural Philosophy'. T Söderqvist (ed.), in: The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography. Science, Technology and Culture 1700–1945, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, pp. 37-49.
- Gaukroger, S. (2006). 'The persona of the natural philosopher'. C Condren, S. Gaukroger & I. Hunter (eds), in: The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 17-34.
- Gaukroger, S. (2006). 'Knowledge, Evidence and Method'. D Rutherford (ed.), in: The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, cambridge, pp. 39-66.
- Gaukroger, S. (2005). 'Francis Bacon'. D Borchert (ed.), in: Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd edn.). Macmillan Reference, Detroit, pp. 442-452.
- Gaukroger, S. (2005). 'Spinoza's physics'. M Hampe & R. Schnepf (eds), in: Spinoza: Ethik in geometrischer Ordnung dargestellt. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 123-132.
- Gaukroger, S. (2005). 'The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy: From Truth to Impartiality'. in: The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century. Springer, New York, pp. 131-164.
- Gaukroger, S. (2005). 'Cartesianism'. C. Horowitz (ed.), in: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, pp. 268-270.
Books and Reports
Books
- Gaukroger, S. (2010). 'The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1680-1760'. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- Gaukroger, S. (2006). 'The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685'. Unknown Publisher, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Gaukroger, S. (2006). 'The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity'. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- Gaukroger, S. (2006). 'A Guide to Descartes' Meditations'. Unknown Publisher, Blackwell, Oxford.
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