Stephen Gaukroger
Encyclopedia
Stephen Gaukroger is a British philosopher and intellectual historian. He is Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney
. Recently he also took up a position as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen
.
and a Ph..D from the University of Cambridge
. He joined the University of Sydney in 1981.
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
. Recently he also took up a position as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...
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Life
He graduated B.A. from the University of LondonUniversity of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
and a Ph..D from the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. He joined the University of Sydney in 1981.
Works
- Explanatory Structures: a study of concepts of explanation in early physics and philosophy (1978)
- Descartes: philosophy, mathematics and physics (1980)
- Cartesian logic: an essay on Descartes's conception of inference (1989)
- Descartes: an intellectual biography (1995)
- The Genealogy of Knowledge: analytical essays in the history of philosophy and science (1997)
- Justification, Truth, and the Development of Science (1998)
- The Soft Underbelly of Reason: the passions in the seventeenth century (1998)
- Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-modern Philosophy (2001)
- Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002)
External links
- Official Page
- Research interests
- "Natural Philosophy and a New World Picture", Stephen Gaukroger, Berfrois, 22 December 2010