Andrew Pyle
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Andrew Pyle (born 17 March 1955) is a British philosopher who is an expert on the history of philosophical atomism. Pyle is currently a Reader in Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Bristol, where he also received his doctorate. His dissertation, now a book called Atomism and its Critics: Democritus to Newton, is considered a classic in the field of atomism. Pyle is also an expert on the history of science and has given talks within the university and internationally on the nature of science historically. Achievements of Pyle consist of numerous editorial roles, such as with the popular philosophy journal, Cogito, and his study on Malebranche (Routledge, 2003), which contributed to an area within the History of Philosophy literature which has been ill addressed among contemporary English-speaking philosophy. Pyle's expertise includes the history of epistemology and metaphysics in modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant.
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(Ed), On Liberty: Contemporary Responses to J.S.Mill (Thoemmes, Bristol, 1994)
Atomism and its Critics: Democritus to Newton (Thoemmes, Bristol 1995)
(Ed) Key Philosophers in Conversation: The Cogito Interviews (Routledge, London, 1999)
‘The Rationality of the Chemical Revolution’, in Nola & Sankey, eds, After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000)
(Ed) Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers (Thoemmes, Bristol, 2000)
Boyle on Science and the Mechanical Philosophy: A Reply to Chalmers’, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 33 (2002), 175-190
Malebranche (Routledge, London, 2003)
Hume's Dialogues on Natural Religion (Continuum, 2006)
