Professor of History
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
PhD, Indiana University

Office:  SS 636
Phone:  (403) 220-6414
Email: mjosler@ucalgary.ca

Curriculum vitae

Short biography
   
Education:
Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University,1968
M.A., History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1966
B.A., Philosophy, Swarthmore College, 1963

Areas of Specialization:
The Scientific Revolution
Science in the 17th Century
The Mechanical Philosophy

Current Research:
The Historiography of the Scientific Revolution
Early Modern Philosophies of Nature
Theology and Natural Philosophy in the 17th Century  

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution. Margaret J. Osler (editor), (Cambridge: Cambridge University   Press, 2000). 

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity  in the Created World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).

Articles
"Mechanical Philosophy," in A Historical Introduction to Science and Religion, edited by Gary Ferngren (Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2003). 

"The History of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: A Plea for Textual History in Context," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2002, 40: 529-533.

"New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Early Modern Physics," Midwest  Journal of Philosophy, special issue on Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, 2002, 26: 167-184.

"Early Modern Uses of Hellenistic Philosophy:Gassendi's Epicurean Project," in Hellenistic and Early  Modern Philosophy, edited by John Miller and Brad Inwood (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.)

"Pierre Gassendi," in The Blackwell Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Steven Nadler (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 80-95.

"Robert Boyle on the Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife," in Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: The Millenarian Turn, ed. James E. Force and Richard H. Popkin   (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming, 2001) , pp. 43-54

 John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, and Jitse Van Der Meer (guest editors), Science in Theistic Contexts, Osiris, vol. 16, 2001

"How Mechanical Was the Mechanical Philosophy?Non-Epicurean Themes in Gassendi's Atomism," in Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, edited by Christoph Lüthy, John Murdoch, and William R. Newman (Leiden: Brill, 2001), pp. 423-439.

"Whose Ends? Teleology in Early Modern Natural Philosophy," Osiris, 2001, 16: 151-68.

"The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution," in Margaret J. Osler (editor), Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 3-22.

"Renaissance Humanism, Lingering Aristotelianism, and The New Natural Philosophy: Gassendi on Final Causes," in Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Jill Kraye and Martin Stone, London Studies in the History of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 193-208.

"Mixing Metaphors: Science and Religion or Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Europe," History of Science, 1998, 36: 91-113.

"From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy," The Monist, 1996, 79: 388-408.

"Divine Will and Mathematical Truth:The Conflict between Descartes and Gassendi on the Status of Eternal Truths," in Descartes and His Contemporaries:Meditations, Objections and Replies, edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene (Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 145-158.
 

COURSES
Fall 2009:   Killam Fellowship         
Winter 2010:  HTST 373 - Magic, Science, and Religion After 1600
                    HTST 477.02 - History of Science:  17th to 20th Century 

Links
History of Science Society
History and Philosophy of Science