Lynn S. Joy

Professor of Philosophy

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-7046
E-Mail: ljoy@nd.edu

Office:306 Malloy
Office Hours: R 2:30-3:30; F 1:30-2:30 or by appointment.

Education:

A.B., Harvard University
A.M., Harvard University
Ph.D., Harvard University

Areas of Interest:

Modern Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science

Selected Bibliography

Recent Articles:

• "Scientific Explanation from Formal Causes to Laws of Nature," The Cambridge History of Science, Vol. 3: Early Modern Science, ed. Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston, pp. 70-105 (2006)
• "Did Natural Law and Equal Expectation Guarantee the Rationality of
  Belief?," The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (1998)
• "Necessity, Contingency, and the Natural in Modern Science," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (1997)
• "Newtonianism without God: Hume as a Philosophical Critic" (in progress)
• "Hume on Natural and Moral Dispositions" (in progress)

Books:

• Gassendi the Atomist: Advocate of History in an Age of Science (Cambridge, 1987/2002)