Geoffrey Gorham
Malacaster College, USA
Fall Term 2017

Geoffrey Gorham is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Macalester College and Resident Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota. He was previously Visiting Researcher at the Rotman Center, University of Western Ontario and at the Center for History of Philosophy and Science, Radoud University. Gorham is co-editor of The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (University of Minnesota, 2016), and author of Philosophy of Science: A Beginner’s Guide (One World, 2009) as well as numerous articles on the philosophy and science of Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Newton and Berkeley (examples below). While at the Center he will pursue research projects on the Natural Philosophy of Time in the Seventeenth Century and on Early American Natural Philosophy.

“Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time”. Forthcoming in Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy. Ed. Ohad Nachtomy, Brill Publishers, 2017.

“Time and Temporal Experience in the Seventeenth Century”. Routledge Handbook of the Temporal Experience. Ed. Ian Philips. Routledge Publishers, 2017.

“Newton and Locke on Absolute Time and its Sensible Measure”. With Edward Slowik. In Newton and Empiricism. Ed. Zvi Biener and Eric Schliesser, Oxford University Press, 2014.

“The Theological Foundations of Hobbesian Physics: A Defense of Corporeal God”. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 21 (2013): 240-61.

Newton on God’s Relation to Space and Time: The Cartesian Framework”. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 93 (2011): 281-320.