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Researcher

Steffen Ducheyne

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99 Results

2019

Learning in the world : Petrus van Musschenbroek (1692-1761) and '(Newtonian) experimental philosophy'

Pieter BeckSteffen Ducheyne

Scientific Reasoning in Action-From the Early Modern Period to 1900, 10-12 October

Erik WeberJonathan RegierSteffen Ducheyne

2014

'Celeberrimus Atheismi patronus praecedentis saeculi': Petrus van Musschenbroek's anti-Spinozism unveiled

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in LIAS-JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE AND ITS SOURCES

De rol van causaliteit binnen de huidige natuurkunde

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE

In the beginning was the act: a historical and systematic analysis of Hermann von Helmholtz's psychology of the object

Liesbet De KockGertrudis Van de VijverSteffen Ducheyne

Newton on action at a distance

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

The sources of Mill's views of ratiocination and induction

Steffen DucheyneJohn P McCaskey

Bookchapter in John Stuart Mill's 'A system of logic' : a critical guide

W. J. 's Gravesande's appropriation of Newton's natural philosophy, part II: methodological issues

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in CENTAURUS

W.'s Gravesande's appropriation of Newton's natural philosophy, part I: epistemological and theological issues

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in CENTAURUS

Whewell's philosophy of science

Steffen Ducheyne

Bookchapter in Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the nineteenth century

2013

's Gravesande and the relation between physics and theology

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

The status of hypothesis and theory

Steffen Ducheyne

Bookchapter in The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century

2012

History and philosophy of science : from peaceful coexistence to golden age of interdisciplinarity?

Steffen Ducheyne

Scientific representations as limiting cases

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in ERKENNTNIS

The Cavendish experiment as a tool for historical understanding of science

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE & EDUCATION

2011

Kant and whewell on bridging principles between metaphysics and science

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in KANT-STUDIEN

Mathematical and philosophical Newton

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in METASCIENCE

Newton on action at a distance and the cause of gravity

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Testing universal gravitation in the laboratory, or the significance of research on the mean density of the earth and big G, 1798-1898: changing pursuits and long-term methodological-experimental continuity

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES

2010

Fundamental questions and some new answers on philosophical, contextual and scientific whewell: some reflections on recent whewell scholarship and the progress made therein

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE

Morano Rodríguez (Ciriaca). Isaac Newton, El Templo de Salomón (manuscrito Prolegomena ad Lexici Prophetici partem secundam). Edición principe, traducción española y estudio. Revised and updated edition

Steffen Ducheyne

Reenacting Galileo’s experiments: rediscovering the techniques of seventeenth-century science by Paolo Palmieri

Steffen Ducheyne

The inferential and representational techniques in Galileo's models for uniformly accelerated motion

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in EPISTEMOLOGIA

Towards a fruitful formulation of Needham’s grand question

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

Whewell's tidal researches: scientific practice and philosophical methodology

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

2009

'Newtonian' elements in locke, hume, and reid, or: how far can one stretch a label?

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in ENLIGHTENMENT AND DISSENT

Anti-trintarianism in Newton's General Scholium to the Principia

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

Helmont’s Mechanical Experiments

Steffen Ducheyne

ISAAC NEWTON'S 'OF THE CHURCH' MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF BODMER MS. IN GENEVA

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

Newton's theology and the flow of influence

Steffen Ducheyne

Bookchapter in Future perspectives on Newton scholarship and the Newtonian legacy in eighteenth-century science and philosophy

THE FLOW OF INFLUENCE: FROM NEWTON TO LOCKE ... AND BACK

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA

The secret history of Hermes : Hermeticism from ancient times to modern times

Steffen Ducheyne

The times and life of John Th. Desaguliers (1683-1744) : Newtonian and Freemason

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D HISTOIRE

Understanding (in) Newton's argument for universal gravitation

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Whewell, necessity and the inductive sciences: a philosophical-systematic survey

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

“To treat of the world”: Paul Otlet's ontology and epistemology and the circle of knowledge

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION

2008

A preliminary study of the appropriation of Van Helmont's oeuvre in Britain in chymistry, medicine and natural philosophy

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in AMBIX

Galileo and Huygens on free fall: Mathematical and methodological ifferences

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in DYNAMIS

Helmont, Johannes (Joan) Baptista Van

Steffen Ducheyne

Huygens: The man behind the principle

Steffen Ducheyne

Induction : historical and contemporary perspectives, 8-10 July

Steffen Ducheyne

J. B. Van Helmont's 'De Tempore' as an influence on Isaac Newton's doctrine of absolute time

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in ARCHIV FUR GESCHICHTE DER PHILOSOPHIE

JS Mill's Canons of Induction: From True Causes to Provisional Ones

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC

Making Knowledge Visible: An Essay on Paul Otlet's Architecture of Knowledge

Steffen Ducheyne

Some worries for Norton’s material theory of induction

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHIA NATURALIS

Towards an ontology of scientific models

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in METAPHYSICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR ONTOLOGY & METAPHYSICS

Whewell's metaphorical usage of light and the ultimate reality underlying it

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in SEMIOTICA

2007

"Ignorance is bliss": On Bernard Nieuwentijt's 'Docta Ignorantia' and his insight in scientific idealisation

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA

Abstraction vs. idealization

Steffen Ducheyne

Algunas notas metodológicas sobre los experimentos de J.B. Van Helmont

Steffen Ducheyne

A4 Journal Article in AZOGUE (TOLEDO)

Galileo observed: Science and the politics of belief.

Steffen Ducheyne

Guest-Editor, Philosophica vol. 76 (2005), "The Challenges for Early Modern Philosophy", 135 pp

Steffen Ducheyne

Hans Radder, The World Observed/ The World Conceived

Steffen Ducheyne

Huygens's understanding of trajectory : via media between Galileo and Newton

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in HISTORIA SCIENTIARUM

Johannes Baptista Van Helmonts experimentele aanpak: een poging tot omschrijving

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in GEWINA (ROTTERDAM)

Letter to the Editor

Steffen Ducheyne

Letters to the editor

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in ISIS

Noodzakelijkheid bij William Whewell : de ontwikkeling van een concept

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR FILOSOFIE

Phrasing the 'hard problem' of scientific understanding

Steffen Ducheyne

Review of "Galileo observed: Science and the politics of belief"

Steffen Ducheyne

Review of Bruce T. Moran "Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution"

Steffen Ducheyne

Stating the "Hard Problem" of Scientific Understanding

Steffen Ducheyne

The concept of causation in Newton's mechanical and optical work

Steffen DucheyneErik Weber

A2 Journal Article in LOGIC AND LOGICAL PHILOSOPHY

Van Helmont and the Question of Experimental Modernism

Steffen Ducheyne

2006

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF THE APPROPRIATION OF VAN HELMONT’S ŒUVRE IN BRITAIN IN CHYMISTRY, MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY

Steffen Ducheyne

Ascribing contemporary scientific concepts to past thinkers: towards a frame-work for handling matters more precisely

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in SCIENTIA POETICA

Descartes and the "causa sui": divine self-production, human self-determination.

Steffen Ducheyne

Galileo Galileo, and the scientific culture in the age of the counter-reformation

Steffen Ducheyne

Galileo's interventionist notion of "cause"

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS

Galileo's Interventionist Notion of Cause

Steffen Ducheyne

Lessons from Galileo : the pragmatic models of shared characteristics of representation

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHIA NATURALIS

Newton's onto-theology versus Descartes's and Leibniz's: or on the relevance of unificatory tendencies in the secularization-process

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE

Optical versus Mechanical Models: Newton's "Failure" to Construct an Optical Theory

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in LOGIQUE ET ANALYSE

Reid's adaptation and radicalization of Newton's natural philosophy (Thomas Reid).

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in HISTORY OF EUROPEAN IDEAS

Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992

Steffen Ducheyne

Review of William R. Eaton’s «Boyle on Fire. The Mechanical Revolution in Scientific Explanation»

Steffen Ducheyne

The argument(s) for universal gravitation

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE

The Cambridge companion to Thomas Reid

Steffen Ducheyne

The General Scholium: some notes on Newton's published and unpublished endeavours

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in LIAS-SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE EARLY MODERN HISTORY OF IDEAS

The man who wanted to rank the world, Paul Otlet and the Mundaneum

Steffen Ducheyne

Thomas Reid and the story of epistemology

Steffen Ducheyne

Thomas Reid, context, influence, significance

Steffen Ducheyne

Virtuosi at work: historical-philosophical essays on causality and methodology in the natural philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and Newton

Steffen DucheyneErik Weber

2005

Bacon's idea and Newton's practice of induction

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

I. Bernard Cohen and George E. Smith (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Newton

Steffen Ducheyne

Joan Baptiste Van Helmont and the question of experimental modernism

Steffen Ducheyne

A4 Journal Article in PHYSIS (FIRENZE)

Mathematical models in Newton's Principia: a new view of the 'Newtonian Style'.

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Michele Camerota's New Biography of Galileo: Three Essay Reviews, Review Essay III

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in EARLY SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (PRINT)

Newton's notion and practice of unification

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Newton's training in the aristotelian textbook tradition: From effects to causes and back

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Paul Otlet's theory of knowledge and linguistic objectivis'm

Steffen Ducheyne

A1 Journal Article in KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Review of The Body of the Artisan (author: Pamela H. Smith)

Steffen Ducheyne

Secularizerende tendenzen in Isaac Newtons Onto-theologie

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in ALGEMEEN NEDERLANDS TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR WIJSBEGEERTE

The challenges for early-modern philosophy: editorial introduction

Steffen Ducheyne

Editorial material

The Textbook Tradition as an Influence of on Newton's conception of Natural Philosophy: From Effects to Causes and Back

Steffen Ducheyne

Understanding in Newton's argument for universal gravitation

Steffen Ducheyne

2004

Review of William R. Eaton's "Boyle on Fire. The Mechanical Revolution in Scientific Explanation"

Steffen Ducheyne

2002

Isaac Newton on space and time: metaphysician or not?

Steffen Ducheyne

A2 Journal Article in PHILOSOPHICA (GENT)

6th International Conference on the History of Chemistry

Steffen Ducheyne