Publications
Articles and Book Chapters
"Galen in the seventeenth century" in Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy, eds. P. Distelzweig, B. Goldberg and E. Ragland (Springer: New York) - in preparation
"Health in the early modern philosophical tradition" in Health, ed. P. Adamson (Oxford University Press: Oxford) - in preparation
"Descartes and the Bologna Affair" - forthcoming at The British Journal for the History of Science [link]
"Analogies" and "Extrinsic Denomination" in Descartes Lexicon, ed. L. Nolan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: forthcoming) [link]
"The history of 'hylomorphism'" - in press at The Journal of the History of Ideas (April 2013) [link]
"Descartes, Other Minds and Impossible Human Bodies" - in press at Philosopher's Imprint (Fall 2012) [link]
"Analogy and Falsification in Descartes' Physics" in Studies in The History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 43, 2, pp. 402-411, June 2012 [link]
"Descartes' healthy machines and the human exception" in The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy, eds. Sophie Roux and Dan Garber (Kluwer: New York, 2012) [link]
"Three biased reminders about hylomorphism in early modern science and philosophy" in Form and Matter in Early Modern Science and Philosophy, ed. Gideon Manning (Brill: Leiden: 2012) [link]
"When the mind became un-natural: de la Forge and psychology in the Cartesian aftermath" in Psychology and the Disciplines and the Other Disciplines: A Case of Cross-Disciplinary Interaction (1250-1750), eds. P.J.J.M. Bakker and Cees Leijenhorst (Brill: Leiden: 2012) [link]
"Naturalism and un-naturalism among the Cartesian physicians" in Inquiry, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp.441-463, October 2008 [link]
Edited Volumes
Form and matter in early modern science and philosophy, ed. Gideon Manning (Brill: Leiden, 2012)
Reviews
Review of Cynthia Klestinec, Theaters of Anatomy: Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore), in History of Universities – in preparation
Review with Delphine Bellis of Craig Martin, Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore), in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science - in press (October 2012) [link]
Review with Marius Stan of Paul Hoffman, Essays on Descartes (Oxford University Press: Oxford), in Mind, Volume 120, Number 478, April 2011, pp. 531-533 [link]
"Walter Charleton, Physician Extraordinaire." Review of Emily Booth, 'A Subtle and Mysterious Machine': The Medical World of Walter Charleton (1619-1707), in History of Universities, Volume XXV/1, October 2010, pp. 185-194 [link]
"Out on the Limb: The Place of Medicine in Descartes' Philosophy." Review of Vincent Aucante, La philosophie médicale de Descartes, in Early Science and Medicine, Volume 12, Number 2, 2007, pp. 214-222 [link]
Work in Progress
"Descartes' teleology and biological functions"
"Descartes union: could we just be straddling modes?"
"Descartes and the category of medical philosopher"
"Experimenting with experiment: Descartes' medicine in the 1630s"
"How Descartes' medicine made the scientific revolution"
"Descartes' ontology of relations"
