associate professor of history
history of early modern science and philosophy
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
“Three Errors about Indifference: Pascal on the Vacuum, Sociability and Moral Freedom,” Romance Quarterly 50(2003):99-120.
“Writing and Sentiment: Blaise Pascal, the Vacuum and the Pensées,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 32(2001):139-181.
The Matter of Calculation: Calculating Machines, Thinking and the Early Modern State
Love, Inclination and Inertia: The Common Good in Early Modern Natural and Political Philosophy
Courses
Fall 2007
Enlightenment and Science
Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West
Spring 2008
Science Across Cultures (with George Saliba)
The European Renaissance, 1400-1600: an introduction
Lecture
The Scientific Revolution in Western Europe, 1500-1750
The European Renaissance, 1400-1600: an introduction
Seminar
Civilizing Processes, 1500-1750
Subjects and Objects of Renaissance Knowledge
Science Across Cultures (with Joel Kaye and George Saliba)
Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West
Graduate
Introduction to Historical Interpretation and Methods
Topics in Early Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History: Institutions of Knowledge and Belief
Monday, 2-4
Address
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