Daniel_Garber_(philosopher)

Daniel Garber (philosopher)

Daniel Garber (philosopher)

American philosopher

Daniel Garber (born 1949) is an American philosopher. He is the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.[1] He is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy and science.[2]

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Education and career

Garber earned all his degrees from Harvard University including his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1975 under the direction of Roderick Firth and Hilary Putnam. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until joining the Princeton faculty in 2002.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[3]

Selected publications

Authored books

  • Descartes's Metaphysical Physics (University of Chicago Press, 1992).
  • Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
  • Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Edited books

  • Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (translated and edited with Roger Ariew) (Hackett Press, 1989).
  • The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (with Michael R. Ayers) (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
  • Kant and the Early Moderns (with Béatrice Longuenesse) (Princeton University Press, 2008).
  • The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy (with Sophie Roux) (Dordrecht: Spring, 2013).
  • Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy (with Donald Rutherford (philosopher)), annual series.

Articles

  • "Old evidence and logical omniscience in Bayesian confirmation theory," in J. Earman (ed.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 10 (1983), pp. 99-131.

References

  1. [1]
    "Daniel Garber | Department of Philosophy". philosophy.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-06-14. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  2. [2]
    "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Philosophy.princeton.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Daniel Garber - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". Paris-iea.fr. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
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