Daniel Garber (born 1949) is an American philosopher. He is the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy at

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. He is a specialist in the history of

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and science.

Education and career

Garber earned all his degrees from

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including his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1975 under the direction of

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and

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. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until joining the Princeton faculty in 2002. He is an elected Fellow of the

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. He is also Consulting Editor of the

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Selected publications

Authored books

*''Descartes's Metaphysical Physics'' (University of Chicago Press, 1992). *''Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001). *''Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

Edited books

*''Leibniz: Philosophical Essays'' (translated and edited with Roger Ariew) (Hackett Press, 1989). *''The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy'' (with Michael R. Ayers) (Cambridge University Press, 1998). *''Kant and the Early Moderns'' (with

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) (Princeton University Press, 2008). *''The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy'' (with Sophie Roux) (Dordrecht: Spring, 2013). *''Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy'' (with

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), annual series.

Articles

*"Old evidence and logical omniscience in Bayesian confirmation theory," in J. Earman (ed.), ''Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science,'' vol. 10 (1983), pp. 99-131.

References

External links

Daniel Garber's homepage

A discussion with Michael Della Rocca about the methodology of history of philosophy
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