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Abel Franco
Ph.D. University of Pittsburg, 2006; University of Salamanca, 1999
"[P]hilosophy has a value - perhaps its chief value - through the greatness of the objects which it contemplates, and the freedom from narrow and personal aims resulting from this contemplation."
B. Russell, "The Value of Philosophy"
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office: ST 502
Email: abel.franco@csun.edu
Phone: 818.677.7501
Interests
History of Philosophy
History of Science
Philosophy of Mind
Publications
"Avempace, Projectile Motion and Impetus Theory"
Journal of the History of Ideas (2003)
"Hobbesian Reaction: Towards and Beyond Newton's Third Law of Motion"
Teorema (2001)
"Duration and Motion in a (Cartesian) World..."
Critica (2001)
"Review of Biographies of Scientific Objects" (with P. Machamer)