A. (Andrea) Sangiacomo, Dr

Funded projects

2019-2023: ERC Starting Grant: "The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy: How Teaching Practiced Shaped the Evolution of Early Modern Science" (link).

Team: Raluca Tanasescu (postdoc), Silvia Donker (PhD), Hugo Hogenbirk (PhD)

2015-2019: NWO Veni Grant: "Occasionalism and the secularization of early modern science: Understanding the dismissal of divine action during the scientific revolution"

Public summary: Why did the theology-based science of the seventeenth century turn into an apparently theology-free science a century later? This project will investigate how the secularization of early modern science was fostered by the reactions of several natural philosophers to the “occasionalist” claim that God constantly operates in nature.

2013-2015: Post-doctoral research within the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung project led by Martin Lenz on "Naturalism and Teleology in Spinoza’s Philosophy".

Main outputs (for complete list see publications):

1. Sangiacomo A., 2016, “Aristotle, Heereboord and the polemical target of Spinoza’s critique of final causes”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 54, no. 3, pp. 395-420.
2. Sangiacomo A., 2015, “Teleology and agreement in nature”, in A. Santos Campos (ed.), Spinoza: Basic Concepts, Exeter: Imprint Academic, pp. 59-70.
3. Sangiacomo A., 2015, “The ontology of determination, from Descartes to Spinoza”, Science in Context 28, no. 4 (2015), pp. 515-543.