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Saul Fisher, Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science, Brill, 2005. 『ピエール・ガッサンディの哲学と科学』
という本が出るようです。この人は
Fisher, S. (2003), “Gassendi’s Atomist Account of Generation and Heredity in Plants and Animals,” Perspectives on Science, 11: 484-512. 『動植物における発生と遺伝へのガッサンディの原子論的な説明』
という論文も書いています。非常にマニアックですけど、よくできた論文です。
長くなりますが、『ピエール・ガッサンディの科学と哲学』の紹介をブリルのホームページから引用しておきます。

This volume addresses the question of what Gassendi takes to be the means of justifying his atomist matter theory. The answer follows from the view of his philosophical and scientific pursuits as part of one and the same project.
Gassendi holds that his most compelling arguments for atomism rest on his empiricism. As an outgrowth of our best theory of knowledge and sound scientific method, we have access to evidence that warrants the microphysical theory.
This look at Gassendi’s philosophy and science illuminates his contributions to early modern thought and to the broader history of philosophy of science. Two keys to his thought are his novel picture of acquiring and judging empirical belief, and his liberal account of criteria for counting empirical beliefs as parts of warranted physical theories.

Readership: Those interested in intellectual history, early modern philosophy and science, and history of ideas in France and Europe.

Saul Fisher, Ph.D. (1997) in Philosophy, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, is Director of Fellowship Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies. His work on early modern philosophy and science focuses on hypotheses, explanation, the mechanical philosophy, and biological thought.

どうせブリルだから高すぎて買えないんですけどね(-_-;)。172ドル…。