Life
Stephen Gaukroger was born inHonours
Gaukroger was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 1992, a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2016, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2016, corresponding member of l’Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences in 2007 and full member in 2016. In 2003 he was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for contributions to history of philosophy and history of science.Works
Books * ''Explanatory Structures: Concepts of Explanation in Early Physics and Philosophy''. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978. * ''Cartesian Logic: An Essay on Descartes’ Conception of Inference.'' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. * ''Arnauld: On True and False Ideas''. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. * ''Descartes, An Intellectual Biography''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. * ''Descartes: The World and Other Writings''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. * ''Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. * ''Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. * ''The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210-1685''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. * ''The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. * ''Objectivity: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. * with Frédérique Aït-Touati. ''Le monde en images. Voir, représenter, savoir, de Descartes à Leibniz''. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. * ''The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. * ''Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. * ''The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay'', Princeton University Press, November 3, 2020. Books edited * ''Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics.'' Brighton: Harvester Press, 1980. * ''The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition''. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer, 1991. * ''The Soft Underbelly of Reason: The Passions in the Seventeenth-Century''. London: Routledge, 1998. * with John Schuster and John Sutton. ''Descartes’ Natural Philosophy''. London: Routledge, 2000. * with Conal Condren and Ian Hunter. ''The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. * ''The Blackwell Guide to Descartes’ Meditations''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. * with Catherine Wilson. ''Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. * with Delphine Antoine-Mahut. ''Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception''. New York: Springer, 2017. * ''Knowledge in Modern Philosophy'', London: Bloomsbury, 2018. Written introduction * ''Charles Bonnet, Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul''. Oxford University Press, 2022.References
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