Autor/-in: Richard T. W. Arthur

Richard T. W. Arthur. is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, living in Toronto. Specializing in early modern natural philosophy, mathematics, and the foundations of physics, he focuses on time and the infinite. He holds degrees in physics (BA, Oxford, 1972) and philosophy (MA, McGill, 1976; PhD, Western Ontario, 1981). Arthur has taught applied mathematics and philosophy in Canada, Nigeria, the United States, Italy and England. He has authored or co-authored eleven books and over 80 articles and chapters, primarily on seventeenth-century philosophy, including works on Leibniz, Newton, and Descartes. His notable books include "Leibniz" (Polity Press, 2014) and "Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity" (Oxford University Press, 2021). In philosophy of physics, he published "The Reality of Time Flow" (Springer, 2019). He recently published an edition of translations of Leibniz’s scientific articles and three co-authored books, Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus. (with David Rabouin), Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite. (with Osvaldo Ottaviani),and Russell on Leibniz. (with Nicholas Griifin).