Hylarie Kochiras
University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Academic Year 2010-11
Project:  Newton and the Transition from Natural Philosophy to Science

Hylarie Kochiras specializes in early modern philosophy of science, with an emphasis upon the thought of Isaac Newton.  She is especially interested in problems about the nature of substance, matter, force and causation, and is currently working on a book project, “Newton and the Transition from Natural Philosophy to Science”.   She completed her doctoral degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in metaphysics and epistemology before turning to the early modern period.  She was a visiting assistant professor for two years at the University of Buffalo before accepting a postdoctoral fellowship at Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science.  She is also interested in visual arts of the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance periods, and enjoys hiking when time permits.

2011
Final revisions completed during fellowship at CPS:
· “Gravity’s Cause and Substance Counting: Contextualizing the Problems”, Studies in History
and Philosophy of Science (March, 2011) 42(1): 167-184.
· “Two Senses of Activity and Gravity in Newton’s Treatise” (under review)
Begun and completed during fellowship at CPS:
· “Spiritual Presence and Dimensional Space beyond the Cosmos”, Intellectual History Review,
special issue on space and time in the seventeenth century (forthcoming)
· “Inertia”, in L. Nolan (ed.), The Descartes Lexicon, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
· “Subtle Matter”, in L. Nolan (ed.), The Descartes Lexicon, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)
Begun and nearly completed during fellowship at CPS:
· “By ye Divine Arm: Substance and Method in De gravitatione”

Begun during fellowship at CPS and currently in progress:
· “Newton and the Doctrine of Holenmerism”
·  “Newton and the Mechanical Philosophy”, with Peter Machamer and J.E. McGuire, for Southern Journal of Philosophy, 50th anniversary issue devoted to Newton and Newtonianism

2012
Articles:
“Newton and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gravitation as the Balance of the Heavens”, with Peter Machamer and J.E.McGuire, 50th anniversary issue on Newton and Newtonianism, Southern Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming)
“Spiritual Presence and Dimensional Space beyond the Cosmos”, special issue on absolute space and time, Intellectual History Review, 22(1) 2012: 41–68

“Newton’s Quandary about Action at a Distance”, New Europe College Yearbook for 2011-2012

Causal Language and the Structure of Force in Newton’s System of the World” (resubmission to British Journal for the History of Science is currently under review)
“By ye Divine Arm: God and Substance in De gravitatione” (revise and resubmit to Religious Studies)

Presentations, peer-reviewed and invited:
European Society for the History of Science; Athens, Greece (Nov. 1-3, 2012): "Newton, Gravity, and the Mechanical Philosophy"
7th Quadrennial Fellows Conference of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science, Mu5la, Turkey (June 14, 2012): “Newton on Matter and Space”
University of Pisa, (April 16, 2012): “Conceptions of the Mechanical Philosophy: Boyle, Descartes, and Newton”
Ghent University, conference on “Isaac Newton and his Reception”, Ghent, Belgium (March 17, 2012): “By ye Divine Arm: Substance and Method in De gravitatione”
New Europe College Bucharest, Romania (11am, Feb. 22, 2012); Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest (6pm): “Dimensional and Non-Dimensional Space and the Doctrine that the Spirit is Whole in Every Part”
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey (January 23, 2012): “Newton, Force, and the Mechanical Philosophy”

2013
Articles:
“By ye Divine Arm: God and Substance in De gravitatione”, Religious Studies (Sept. 2013), 49(3): 327-356. (“First View” published at Cambridge Journals Online Sept. 2012.)

Presentations, peer-reviewed and invited:
University of Athens (April 26, 2013): “Newton on Material Bodies and the Parts of Space”.

University of Athens (February 18, 2013): “Boyle, Descartes, and Newton’s Mechanical Philosophy”.

7th Quadrennial Fellows Conference of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science, Mugla, Turkey (June 14,
2012): “Newton on Matter and Space”.

University of Pisa (April 16, 2012): “Conceptions of the Mechanical Philosophy: Boyle, Descartes, and Newton”.

Ghent University, conference on “Isaac Newton and his Reception”, Ghent, Belgium (March 17, 2012): “By ye
Divine Arm: Substance and Method in De gravitatione”.

Affiliations & Fellowships:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University; Oct 2013-Feb 2014

Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens; Feb-May 2013

2014
Articles:
“The Mechanical Philosophy and Newton’s Mechanical Force”, Philosophy of Science 80 (October, 2013), 557-578.

“Causal Language and the Structure of Force in Newton’s System of the World”, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (Fall, 2013), 3(2): 210-235.

Presentations, peer-reviewed and invited:
École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Controverses et Collaborations Workshop (April 28, 2014): "Controversy in the Mechanical Philosophy and Newton's General Scholium".

The Cohn Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Ideas, Tel Aviv University (December 9, 2013): “Newton’s General Scholium and the Mechanical Philosophy”.

Isaac Newton’s General Scholium to the Principia - A tercentenary symposium; University of King’s College, Halifax (October 26, 2013): “Newton’s General Scholium and the Mechanical Philosophy”.

Affiliations & Fellowships:
European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship, for research at Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Bologna (Nov. 2014-August, 2015)

Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Fernand Braudel-IFER Postdoctoral Fellow; Labex TransferS, Mathesis, République des savoirs (USR 3608), École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS)-Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (March-Nov 2014)

2015

I am now a citizen of the Hellenic Republic. 

Articles:
“Newton’s Absolute Time”, for Time and Tense, ed. S. Gerogiorgakis; Munich: Philosophia Publ. (forthcoming)

“The General Scholium and Newton’s Mechanical Philosophy”, for book on Newton’s General Scholium, ed. Snobelen, Mandelbrote, and Ducheyne (forthcoming).

Presentations:
Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Università di Bologna (April 21, 2015): “Causation in the Early Modern Period and in the Thought of Isaac Newton”

EURIAS Annual Meeting, hosted by Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna (April 17, 2015): “Newton and Causation”

École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Controverses et Collaborations Workshop (December 12, 2014): "Newton and the Question about Continual Creation”

Affiliations & Fellowships:
Current post: European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellow at Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Bologna
(Oct. 2014-August, 2015)