Peter Anstey

BA(Hons)(1991) PhD (1997)(Sydney)

Email: peter.anstey@otago.ac.nz

Before coming to Otago to take up the Chair in Early Modern Philosophy Peter taught philosophy and history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on early modern philosophy with special reference to the writings of John Locke and Robert Boyle. Other research interests include philosophy of science, metaphysics and ancient philosophy.

Teaching

PHIL 232 Early Modern Philosophy B

PHIL 332 Early Modern Philosophy B

Supervision Interests

• Early modern philosophy
• Metaphysics
• Ancient philosophy
• Philosophy of science

Recent publications include

Anstey, P. R (ed.) (2006) John Locke: Critical Assessments, 4 vols, Abingdon: Routledge

Anstey, P. R. & Schuster J. A. (eds) (2005) The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer

Anstey, P. R. (ed) (2003) The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives, London: Routledge

Anstey, P. R. (2000) The Philosophy of Robert Boyle, London: Routledge

Conferences

&HPS2, University of Notre Dame,12–15 March 2009. Title of paper: 'Theory and experiment in early modern chymistry'.

Embodied Empiricism, University of Sydney, 20–22 February 2009. Title of paper: 'Locke and Helmontian medicine'.

Vanishing bodies and the birth of modern physics, Bucharest, Romania, 30 June - 2 July 2008. Title of paper: 'The matter of medicine: new medical matter theories in mid-seventeenth-century England'

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

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