Daniel Garber (philosopher)
Daniel Garber is an American philosopher. He is the A. Watson Armour, III, University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy and science.
Education and career
Garber earned all his degrees from Harvard University including his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1975 under the direction of Roderick Firth and Hilary Putnam. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975 until joining the Princeton faculty in 2002.He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He is also Consulting Editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Selected publications
Authored books
- Descartes's Metaphysical Physics.
- Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science.
- Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad.
Edited books
- Leibniz: Philosophical Essays .
- The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy .
- Kant and the Early Moderns .
- The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy .
- Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, annual series.
Articles
- "Old evidence and logical omniscience in Bayesian confirmation theory," in J. Earman, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 10, pp. 99-131.