Stephen Gaukroger
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British philosopher and intellectual historian
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- Works
- 42
Top works
- Descartes' System of Natural Philospohy
- Revelation
- Aftermath of Syllogism
- It Makes Sense
- World and Other Writings
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,871x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 41,144x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 29,461x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,554x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 23,144x
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Quotes
- “Such knowledge [of contemporary physicists] is clearly not the same as that derived by abstraction from individual cases: abstraction can provide us with knowledge of accidents but not necessary attributes as such. If we find that the search for essences can in fact only take the form of abstraction from individual cases then Aristotle's account of what counts as an explanation in physics is an unrealisable ideal.”
- “If you don't think explicitly about big history, you are condemned to making all kinds of assumptions that may be unfruitful, counterproductive, or just plain ignorant. It is something that every historian has to think about at some stage, and it distinguishes history from antiquarianism.”
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