Professor Peter Anstey
BA (Hons) PhD Sydney, FAHA
Professor of Philosophy
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 2477 |
Fax | +61 2 9351 3918 |
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Teaching and supervision
- Early modern philosophy
- Experimental philosophy
- Locke, Boyle, Bacon, Newton
- French Philosophes
Awards and honours
Nicholas Anthony Aroney Research Fund 2017, The University of Sydney, 'Euclid’s Elements In The Early Modern Era'.
Faculty Research Support Scheme (FASS), The University of Sydney, ‘The Marciana Locke manuscript: analysis and evaluation’, June 2016–June 2017, AUD7,039
Selected grants
2015
- Cultures of Modernities in the Global Medieval and Pre-Modern World; Amer S, Sirantoine H, Klein E, Anstey P, Gagne J, Borghesi F, Wooding J, Shaw J, Griffiths H; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/SSSHARC Collaborative Projects Support Scheme.
2014
- Experimental philosophy and empirical ethics: a historical reconstruction and philosophical assessment; Anstey P, Sorell T, Vanzo A; Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK)/Research Grant.
2012
- The nature and status of principles in early modern philosophy; Anstey P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT).
2009
- Experimental philosophy and the origins of Empiricism; Anstey P; Royal Society of New Zealand/Marsden Fund Grant.
2005
- John Locke, botany and natural kinds; Anstey P, Harris S, Harris S; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2003
- The Clarendon edition of John Locke's writings on natural philosophy and medicine; Anstey P; DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Research and Development (R&D).
2002
- Reason & reasonableness in early modern thought: Stage 2, survey of the De Beer & Lovelace collections.; Anstey P; DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Research and Development (R&D).
2000
- John Locke and the new historiography; University of Sydney/Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Selected publications & creative works
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The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2013)
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John Locke and Natural Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011)
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Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond (Routledge, 2011)
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John Locke: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Series II (Routledge, 2006)
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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Changes in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (Springer, 2005)
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The Philosophy of John Locke: New perspectives (Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis, 2003)
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The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (Routledge, 2000)
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