Peter Robert Dear

Dear, Peter Robert. 1984. “Marin Mersenne and the Probabilistic Roots of ‘Mitigated Scepticism’ .” Journal of the History of Philosophy 22(2): 173–205.

Dear, Peter Robert. 1994. “Mersenne et l’expérience scientifique.” Les Études Philosophiques 48(1–2): 53–67. Études sur Marin Mersenne, articles rassemblés par Jean-Robert Armogathe et Michel Blay.

Dear, Peter Robert. 1995. “Mersenne’s Suggestion: Cartesian Meditation and the Mathematical Model of Knowledge in the 17th Century.” in Descartes and His Contemporaries. Meditations, Objections and Replies, edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene, pp. 44–62. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

Dear, Peter Robert. 1998. “Method and the Study of Nature.” in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, volume I, edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers, pp. 147–177. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2000. “Marin Mersenne: Mechanics, Music and Harmony.” in Physical Theory as Logico-Operational Structure, edited by Clifford A. Hooker, pp. 267–288. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 7. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2001a. Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2001b. “Reply to Andrew Cunningham [to Cunningham (2000) and Cunningham (2001)].” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32(2): 393–395.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2001c. “Religion, Science and Natural Philosophy: Thoughts on Cunningham’s Thesis [on Cunningham (2000) and Cunningham (2001)].” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32(2): 377–386.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2005. “Circular Argument: Descartes’ Vortices and their Crafting as Explanations of Gravity.” in The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century. Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, edited by Peter R. Anstey and John A. Schuster, pp. 81–98. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 19. Dordrecht: Springer.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2006. The Intelligibility of Nature. How Science Makes Sense of the World. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2012a. “Horizontal Explanation in the Enlightenment [Review of Gaukroger (2010)].” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 43(1): 221–223.

Dear, Peter Robert. 2012b. “Philosophy of Science and Its Historical Reconstructions.” in Integrating History and Philosophy of Science. Problems and Prospects, edited by Seymour H. Mauskopf and Tad M. Schmaltz, pp. 67–82. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 263. Dordrecht: Springer.

Cunningham, Andrew S. 2000. “Science and Religion in the Thirteenth Century Revisited: The Making of St Francis the Proto-Ecologist Part 1: Creature not Nature.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31(4): 613–643.

Cunningham, Andrew S. 2001. “Science and Religion in the Thirteenth Century Revisited: The Making of St Francis the Proto-Ecologist Part 2: Nature not Creature.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 32(1): 69–98.

Gaukroger, Stephen. 2010. The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680–1760. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594931.001.0001.