Stephen Gaukroger, professor emeritus on the College of Sydney, died this previous September.
Professor Gaukroger was identified for his work within the historical past of philosophy (particularly Descartes) and the historical past and philosophy of science, authoring 14 books, enhancing one other 12, in addition to a considerable variety of articles. Amongst his latest books are The Failures of Philosophy: A Historic Essay (Princeton College Press, 2020) and The Family tree of Information: Analytical Essays within the Historical past and Philosophy of Science (Routledge, 2019). He additionally produced what has been described as a quartet of books on the theme of “science and the shaping of modernity”: The Emergence of a Scientific Tradition (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), The Pure and the Human (2016) and Civilization and the Tradition of Science (2020) (all with Oxford College Press). You possibly can be taught extra about his analysis here and here.
Professor Gaukroger joined the College of Sydney school in 1981. Previous to that, he held analysis fellowships on the College of Melbourne and Cambridge College. He earned his PhD from Cambridge, and his BA from the College of London.
In a memorial notice printed on the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he’s remembered as “a strongly impartial thinker… intellectually adventurous with an unlimited vary” who has “left an enduring legacy in Australian mental life.”
He died on September third.
