Roger
Ariew
Professor
Department Chair
Ph.D. Illinois, 1976. Joined the Philosophy Department faculty at USF in 2004
after post-doc at the University of Chicago and many years at Virginia Tech.
His principal interests concern the relations between philosophy, science, and
society in the early modern period. Ariew is the author of Descartes and
the Last Scholastics (Cornell University Press, 1999), coauthor of Historical
Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy (Scarecrow Press, 2003),
editor and translator such works as Descartes, Philosophical Essays (Hackett,
2000) and Pascal, Pensées (Hackett, 2005), and editor of the
quarterly journal Perspectives on Science: Historical, Philosophical, Social
(MIT Press). He has been awarded multiple fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) as well as numerous research grants from NEH and the
National Science Foundation; he has co-directed two NEH Summer Seminars, one
on Descartes and another on Leibniz. He is currently working on a variety of
topics, including the reception of Descartes' philosophy and science in late
seventeenth-century France: Descartes and the First Cartesians, under
contract with Oxford University Press.
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