2022
Routledge; ISBN: 9781032020365; DOI: 10.4324/9781003184256-1
The book appeared as an Open Access publication. A pdf of the book can be downloaded from Routledge, at the page linked above.
2012
Special 50th Anniversary Issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 50, Issue 3)
Professor Domski's Editor’s Introduction provides an overview of the papers collected in the issue.
2010
Edited with Michael Dickson; Open Court Publishing; ISBN: 978-0-8126-9662-2
This collection honors Michael Friedman’s influential work in history and philosophy of science and includes twenty-six original papers, one of which is Friedman’s book-length concluding essay, “Synthetic History Reconsidered.”
Reviews of the volume appeared in NDPR and Philosophy in Review.
FORTHCOMING
“Philosophy of Science in Newton’s General Scholium.” To appear in Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia: Science, Religion, and Metaphysics, edited by Steffen Ducheyne, Scott Mandlebrote, and Stephen Snobelen.
“Newton’s Mathematics and Empiricism.” To appear in The Oxford Handbook of Newton (Oxford University Press), edited by Eric Schliesser and Chris Smeenk. Published online first, February 2017. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199930418.013.7
2023
“Working Hypotheses, Mathematical Representation, and the Logic of Theory-Mediation in the Principia,” co-authored with Zvi Biener. In Theory, Evidence, Data: Themes from George E. Smith (Springer, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Volume 343, Dec 2023), edited by Marius Stan and Chris Smeenk, pp. 139-162.
2022
“Descartes’ Mathematics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Fall 2022 Edition; first published on-line in Winter 2011; revisions in 2015, 2021, and 2022), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2022/entries/descartes-mathematics/>.
2021
“Newton and Spinoza: On motion and matter (and God, of course),” co-authored with Eric Schliesser (lead author). In Newton’s Metaphysics: Essays (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, July 2021), by Eric Schliesser, pp. 111-133.
2019
“Imagination, Metaphysics, Mathematics: Descartes’s Argument for the Vortex Hypothesis.” Synthese (September 2019) 196/9: 3505–3526. Published online first, August 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1533-6. The final publication is available at link.springer.com.
2018
“Laws of Nature and the Divine Order of Things: Descartes and Newton on Truth in Natural Philosophy.” In Laws of Nature (Oxford University Press, July 2018), edited by Walter Ott and Lydia Patton, pp. 42-61.
2013
Essay Review of Steffen Ducheyne’s The Main Business of Natural Philosophy: Isaac Newton’s Natural-Philosophical Methodology (2012) and William Harper’s Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology (2011). HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society of History of Philosophy of Science (fall 2013) 3: 318-333.
“Kant and Newton on the A Priori Necessity of Geometry.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (September 2013) 44/3: 438-447.
“Observation and Mathematics.” In The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, July 2013), edited by Peter Anstey, pp. 144-168.
“Mediating Between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism.” In Philosophy and Its History: New Essays on the Methods and Aims of Research in the History of Philosophy (Oxford University Press, July 2013), edited by Mogens Laerke, Justin E. H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser, pp. 278-300.
2012
“Newton and Proclus: Geometry, Imagination, and Knowing Space.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy (September 2012) 50/3: 389-413.
“Locke’s Qualified Embrace of Newton’s Principia.” In Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2012), edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, pp. 48-68.
2010
“Kant on the Imagination and Geometrical Certainty.” Perspectives on Science (Dec 2010), 18/4: 409-431.
“Discourse on a New Method, Or a Manifesto for a Synthetic Approach to History and Philosophy of Science,” co-authored with Michael Dickson. In Discourse on a New Method (Open Court, September 2010), edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, pp. 1-20.
“Newton as Historically-Minded Philosopher.” In Discourse on a New Method (Open Court, September 2010), edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, pp. 65-89.
“Newton’s Empiricism and Metaphysics.” Philosophy Compass (July 2010) 5/7: 525-534.
2009
“The Intelligibility of Motion and Construction: Descartes’ Early Mathematics and Metaphysics, 1619-1637.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2009) 40: 119-130.
2008
“The Transcendental and the Geometrical: Kant’s argument for the Infinity of Space.” Law and Peace in Kant’s Philosophy: Proceedings of the Tenth International Kant Congress (Walter de Gruyter, 2008), Vol 2: 149-160.
2006
“Construction without Spatial Constraints: A Reply to Emily Carson.” Locke Studies: An Annual Journal of Locke Research (2006) 6: 85-99.
2003
“The Constructible and Intelligible in Newton’s Philosophy of Geometry.” Philosophy of Science (2003) 70 (5): 1114-1124.
2022
“Descartes, Mathematics and the Science of Motion.” In Springer Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Springer, 2022), edited by D. Jalobeanu, C. T. Wolfe. Entry in the “Mechanics” section, pp. 430-435. First published online May 2020.
“Newton and Descartes.” In Springer Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences (Springer, 2022), edited by D. Jalobeanu, C. T. Wolfe. Entry in the “Newtonianism” section, pp. 1468-1472. First published online December 2019.
2016
Review of Thomas C. Vinci, Space, Geometry, and Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories (Oxford University Press, 2014). Journal of the History of Philosophy (2016) 54 (1): 174-175.
“Physics” (co-authored with Peter Machamer) in The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon (Cambridge University Press, January 2016), edited by Larry Nolan, pp. 587-591.
2015
“Michael Friedman.” Short (350-word) entry in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Third Edition (2015), edited by Robert Audi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 397.
2012
“Introduction: Newton and Newtonianism.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy (September 2012) 50/3: 363-69.
2011
Review of Peter Machamer and J.E. McGuire, Descartes’s Changing Mind (Princeton University Press, 2009). HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society of History of Philosophy of Science (spring 2011) 1(1): 162-165.
2010
Review of Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method (The MIT Press, 2009). Canadian Journal of History (Winter 2010) 45: 614-617.
Review of D. Garber and B. Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns (Princeton University Press, 2008). Mind (April 2010), 119 (474): 478-481.
2009
Review of Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Early Science and Medicine (2009) 14: 590-592.
2008
“Evolving maths”: Review of Peter S. Rudman, How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years (Prometheus Books, 2007). Endeavour (2008) 32: 39-41.
2006
Review of Michael Ben-Chaim, Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science: Boyle, Locke, Newton (Ashgate Publishing, 2004). Early Science and Medicine (2006) 11 (1): 122-126.
2005
Review of J. Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen (eds.), Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy (Cambridge: MIT Press, March 2004, Paperback edition). Physics in Perspective (2005) 7 (3): 377-380.
2004
Review of Lorenzo Magnani, Philosophy and Geometry: Theoretical and Historical Issues (New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). Philosophy of Science (2004) 71 (3): 412-415.