William R. Shea (shea-wr)

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Bibliography

Shea, William R. 1977. “Galileo and the Justification of Experiments.” in Historical and Philosophical Dimensions of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Part Four of the Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, London, Ontario, Canada, 1975, edited by Robert E. Butts and Jaakko Hintikka, pp. 81–92. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 12. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1978. “Descartes as Critic of Galileo.” in New Perspectives on Galileo, edited by Robert E. Butts and Joseph C. Pitt, pp. 139–159. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Papers deriving from and related to a workshop on Galileo held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975.
Shea, William R. 1982. “The Young Hegel’s Quest for a Philosophy of Science, or Pitting Kepler against Newton.” in Scientific Philosophy Today. Essays in Honor of Mario Bunge, edited by Joseph Agassi and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 381–398. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 67. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R., ed. 1983a. Nature Mathematized. Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Classical Modern Natural Philosophy. Papers Deriving from the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, Montréal, Canada, 1980. Volume I. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R., ed. 1983b. Otto Hahn and the Rise of Nuclear Physics. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 22. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1983c. “Do Historians and Philosophers of Science Share the Same Heritage?” in Nature Mathematized. Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Classical Modern Natural Philosophy. Papers Deriving from the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, Montréal, Canada, 1980. Volume I, edited by William R. Shea, pp. 3–19. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1983d. “The Galilean Geometrization of Motion: Some Historical Considerations.” in Nature Mathematized. Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Classical Modern Natural Philosophy. Papers Deriving from the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science, Montréal, Canada, 1980. Volume I, edited by William R. Shea, pp. 51–60. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1983e. “Introduction: from Rutherford to Hahn.” in Otto Hahn and the Rise of Nuclear Physics, edited by William R. Shea, pp. 1–18. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 22. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1984. “Descartes: Methodological Ideal and Actual Procedure.” Philosophia Naturalis 21(2–4): 577–589. Reprinted in Sorell (1999, 25–37).
Shea, William R. 1986. “Filled with Wonder: Kant’s Cosmological Essay, the Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens.” in Kant’s Philosophy of Physical Science: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaften 1786–1986, edited by Robert E. Butts, pp. 95–125. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 33. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1987. “The Quest for Scientific Rationality: Some Historical Considerations.” in Rational Changes in Science. Essays on Scientific Reasoning, edited by Joseph C. Pitt and Marcello Pera, pp. 155–176. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 98. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1988. “Descartes and the Rosicrucian Enlightenment.” in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Essays in honour of Gerd Buchdahl, edited by Roger S. Woolhouse, pp. 73–100. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 43. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shea, William R. 1989a. “Transworld Journeys. Report on Session 1: Philosophy.” in Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences, edited by Sture Allén, pp. 82–91. Research in Text Theory n. 14. Berlin: de Gruyter. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65, doi:10.1515/9783110866858.
Shea, William R. 1989b. “Galileo Galilei: An Astronomer at Work.” in Nature, Experiment and the Science. Essays on Galileo and the Nature of Science. In Honour of Stillman Drake, edited by Trevor H. Levere and W. E. Shea, pp. 51–76. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 120. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Shea, William R. 1991. The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of René Descartes. Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications.
Shea, William R. 1995. “Technology and the Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy.” in Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science I. Logic, Mathematics, Physics and History of Science. Essays in Honor of Hughes Leblanc, edited by Mathieu Marion and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 297–308. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 177. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Shea, William R. 1996. “The Difficult Path to Inertia: the Cartesian Step.” in Descartes: Principia philosophiae (1644-1994). Atti del Convegno per il 350 anniversario della pubblicazione dell’opera, edited by Jean-Robert Armogathe and Giulia Belgioioso, pp. 451–470. Istituto Italiano per Gli Studi Filosofici. Biblioteca Europea. Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi su Descartes e il Seicento dell’Università di Lecce n. 10. Napoli: Vivarium.
Shea, William R. 1997. “La science de Descartes.” Laval Théologique et Philosophique 53: 531–549. Actes du colloque international Descartes.
Shea, William R. 1998. “Galileo’s Copernicanism: The Science and the Rhetoric.” in The Cambridge Companion to Galileo, edited by Peter K. Machamer, pp. 211–243. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/ccol0521581788.
Shea, William R. 2001. “Galileo e l’atomismo.” Acta Philosophica (Armando Editore, Roma) 10(2): 257–272.
Shea, William R. 2004. “The ‘Rational’ Descartes and the ‘Empirical’ Galileo.” in The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe, edited by Carla Rita Palmerino and Johannes M. M. H. Thijssen, pp. 67–82. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 239. Dordrecht: Springer.

Further References

Sorell, Tom, ed. 1999. Descartes. International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy. Aldershot, Hampshire: Dartmouth Publishing.