Stephen Gaukroger

Stephen Gaukroger (born 1950) 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.

Life

He graduated B.A. from the University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. 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)
• The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-955001-2. 
• The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760. Oxford University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-959493-1. 
• Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2012

External links

• Official Page
• "Natural Philosophy and a New World Picture", Stephen Gaukroger, Berfrois, 22 December 2010