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Janiak is Professor of Philosophy and the co-leader of Project Vox. He is former chair of the Bass Society of Fellows and served as Chair of Philosophy from 2015-2020.
Here's a recent article in the Washington Post that Janiak wrote about how he first encountered Madame Du Châtelet. Janiak was recently interviewed for an APA blog about diversifying the philosophy canon.
Project Vox, which is a team effort at Duke co-led by Janiak and Dr. Liz Milewicz, has been featured in the London Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and also by Duke News. The latest report about Project Vox was in a recent discussion in the Atlantic magazine.
See this recent blog post on my presentation of Project Vox to a digital humanities conference at McGill in Montreal.
Janiak's recent work on Newton has been featured in The New Atlantis, Duke Today, and elsewhere.
Before coming to Duke, Janiak earned an M.A. from Michigan while enrolled in its doctoral program, and a Ph.D. from Indiana in 2001, with a Ph.D. minor in history and philosophy of science. He wrote his dissertation under Michael Friedman, Fred Beiser, Paul Franks and Nico Bertoloni Meli.
In 2001-02, Janiak was a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at MIT, having previously been a doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University. He joined the Duke faculty in the fall of 2002. In 2008-09, he received the Richard Lublin Distinguished Teaching Award from Duke's School of Arts and Sciences.
For a talk Janiak gave at Duke in honor of Barbara Herrnstein Smith's work, see here.
Here is a link to Janiak's lecture on Newton and causation at the Rotman Institute, University of Western Ontario.
RECENT WORK:
Isaac Newton (Oxford and Boston: Blackwell), part of the Blackwell Great Minds series edited by Steve Nadler, x + 203.
Work on Newton:
Work on Kant:
Reviews:
Recent and upcoming talks: