Looking forward to that! And I think it is absolutely correct to frame this in terms of commitments in the first place, rather than ideas or assumptions…

I’m not sure whether I’d consider myself a historian of mathematics, but in this piece I tried to show the importance of what we can learn from Bennett’s analyses (as well as those of a certain Johnston) to a philosophical audience philpapers.org/archive/VANA...

“Clean”, “clear” - whatever.

@mvandyck is the real me, whatever that still means in this “social” media madness…

Thanks Craig! Jardine's Scenes of Inquiry is a neat proposal to focus on how to delineate what are relevant questions in a certain context of inquiry.

Thanks - that was one of the reasons to write the paper! It feels like it is a somewhat underappreciated framework...

Aarsleff's excellent piece in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography references "Frank E. Manuel, A Portrait of Isaac Newton (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), pp. 11,49" for the claim that Newton took extensive notes from the Mathematical Magick around 1660.