Buckwalter and Stich just posted a very interesting survey of results concerning gender differences in answers given to philosophical thought experiments.  That there are such differences is one of the factors considered in explanations of the underrepresentation of women in philosophy -- if women have the "wrong" intuitions in these cases more often than men … Continue reading Gender Differences in Philosophical Intuitions

My colleague and friend Maggie Osler died yesterday.  She was a wonderful person, and an admirable scholar of early modern science and natural philosophy, the Scientific Revolution, and especially on Boyle, Descartes, Gassendi, and Newton. Her 1994 book Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy is a standard. And I look forward to reading her last … Continue reading Margaret J. Osler, 1942-2010