Andrew Pyle (philosopher)
Andrew Pyle(born 17 March 1955) is a Britishphilosopheron the history of philosophicalatomism.
Pyle is professor Emeritus[1]in EarlyModern Philosophyat theUniversity of Bristol,where he also received his doctorate. Hisdissertationwas titledAtomism and its Critics:DemocritustoNewton.Pyle also writes on thehistory of scienceand has given talks within the university on the nature ofsciencehistorically. Pyle is one of the editors of theContinuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy.[2]Andrew Pyle engaged in an apologetics debate with William Lane Craig in 2008 on the topic: Does the Christian God Exist?[3]
In 2018, Bristol University held an all day conference honouring the thematic themes of Pyle's research[4]
Publications
[edit]- Hume's Dialogues on Natural Religion(Continuum, 2006)
- Malebranche(Routledge, London, 2003)
- Boyle on Science and the Mechanical Philosophy: A Reply to Chalmers,Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 33 (2002), 175-190
- The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution,in Nola & Sankey, eds, After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000)
- Atomism and its Critics: Democritus to Newton(Thoemmes, Bristol 1995)
References
[edit]- ^"Dr Andrew Pyle - School of Arts".Bristol University.23 December 2019.Retrieved23 December2019.
- ^Grayling, A. C.; Goulder, Naomi; Pyle, Andrew (2010).The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy.Continuum.ISBN9780199754694.
- ^"Does the Christian God Exist?".Archivedfrom the original on 21 December 2021.
- ^Bristol, University of."2018: Workshop in honour of Prof. Andrew Pyle | Faculty of Arts | University of Bristol".bristol.ac.uk.Retrieved27 August2018.
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