Margaret J. Osler
Canadian historian and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Margaret J. "Maggie" Osler was a historian and philosopher of early modern science and a professor of history at the University of Calgary. Biography Osler received a B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1963, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University in History and Philosophy of Science under the supervision of Richard S. Westfall. The title of her dissertation was John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton. She held teaching appointments at Oregon State University, Harvey Mudd College, and Wake Forest University before coming to the University of Calgary in 1975. There, she rose through the ranks, being promoted to professor in 1995. In 1998, she was appointed adjunct professor in philosophy, and in 2002 adjunct professor of history at the University of Alberta.
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- Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World. (1994) (75)
- Whose Ends? Teleology in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (2001) (33)
- Rethinking the scientific revolution (2000) (31)
- The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science (2009) (30)
- Rethinking the Scientific Revolution: Contents (2000) (23)
- Religion, science, and worldview : essays in honor of Richard S. Westfall (2002) (17)
- Mixing Metaphors: Science and Religion or Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Europe (1998) (13)
- Rethinking the Scientific Revolution: The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (2000) (13)
- The Truth of Newton's Science and the Truth of Science's History: Heroic Science at Its Eighteenth-Century Formulation (2000) (12)
- Science, Pseudo-Science, and Society (1980) (12)
- Science in theistic contexts: cognitive dimensions (2001) (11)
- Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe (2010) (11)
- Philosophy, science, and religion in England 1640–1700: The intellectual sources of Robert Boyle's philosophy of nature: Gassendi's voluntarism and Boyle's physico-theological project (1992) (9)
- Galileo, Motion, and Essences (1973) (7)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Gassendi's atomism: An empirical theory of matter (1994) (4)
- Science and Religion: Religion and the changing historiography of the Scientific Revolution (2010) (3)
- Early Modern Uses of Hellenistic Philosophy: Gassendi's Epicurean Project (2003) (3)
- A hero for their times: early biographies of Newton (2006) (3)
- Revolution or resurrection? (1999) (2)
- Corpus, revue de philosophie (1994) (2)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes in conflict (1994) (1)
- Robert Boyle on Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife (2001) (1)
- Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy: Early Modern Uses of Hellenistic Philosophy (2003) (1)
- Epicureanism and the creation of a privatist ethic in early seventeenth-century France (1991) (1)
- Book Review:Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen, and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James (1995) (1)
- Myth 10. That the Scientific Revolution Liberated Science from Religion (2009) (1)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Providence and human freedom in Christian Epicureanism: Gassendi on fortune, fate, and divination (1994) (1)
- VARIETIES OF PROVIDENTIALISM (2003) (1)
- Notes and Discussions Philosophical History of Philosophy (2003) (1)
- Book Review:The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution Carolyn Merchant (1981) (0)
- Robert Boyle Recovered (2001) (0)
- Book Review:The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers (1999) (0)
- Women in Science: A Discussion (1977) (0)
- Book Review:Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age--A Commentary on Bacon's Advancement of Learning Jerry Weinberger (1986) (0)
- Eloge: Richard S. Westfall, 22 April 1924-21 August 1996 (1997) (0)
- Book Notes (2008) (0)
- Books Received (1946) (0)
- Book Review:Ideas, Qualities, and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World Peter Alexander (1986) (0)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Divine power and divine will in the Middle Ages: Historical and conceptual background (1994) (0)
- The Epicurean Tradition. Howard Jones (1991) (0)
- John Henry.The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science. (Studies in European History.) ix + 162 pp., bibl., index. Third edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. £14.99. (2009) (0)
- Book Review:New Perspectives on Galileo R. E. Butts, J. C. Pitt (1979) (0)
- Book Review:Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution Allen G. Debus, Michael T. Walton (2000) (0)
- Book Review:The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz Kathleen Okruhlik, James Robert Brown (1987) (0)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Baptizing Epicurean philosophy: Gassendi on divine will and the philosophy of nature (1994) (0)
- Conclusion: Theology transformed – the emergence of styles of science (1994) (0)
- Book Review: Science and Religion over Two Millennia: Science and Religion, 400 B.C.–A.D. 1550: From Aristotle to Copernicus (2006) (0)
- Dennis Des Chene.Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes. xvi + 181 pp., illus., bibl., index.Ithaca, N.Y./London: Cornell University Press, 2001. (2002) (0)
- Book Review:The Newtonian Revolution: With Illustrations of the Transformation of Scientific Ideas I. Bernard Cohen (1983) (0)
- Book Review:Particles and Ideas: Bishop Berkeley's Corpuscularian Philosophy Gabriel Moked (1991) (0)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Introduction (1994) (0)
- Book Review:The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton John Rogers (1997) (0)
- Hunter Michael. Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer. 1995. Pp. xii, 345. $99.00. ISBN 0-85115-594-4. (1996) (0)
- Book Review:Principles of Philosophy Rene Descartes, Valentine Rodger Miller, Reese P. Miller (1984) (0)
- Theology, metaphysics, and epistemology: Gassendi's “science of appearances” (1994) (0)
- Science, Pseudo-Science and Society Essays (1980) (0)
- Book Review:Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom Gary B. Herbert (1990) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society San Diego, 5-9 November 1997 (1998) (0)
- Jürgen Helm;, Annette Winkelmann.Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century. (Studies in European Judaism, 1.) xiv + 161 pp., index. Boston: Brill Academic Publishing, 2001. $54 (cloth). (2002) (0)
- Divine will and the mechanical philosophy: Introduction: Theories of matter and their epistemological roots (1994) (0)
- Book Review:Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime Erica Harth (1993) (0)
- Rethinking the Scientific Revolution: Preface (2000) (0)
- Editorial consultants (1980) (0)
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