Prof. C.R. Palmerino (Carla Rita)

Director of research - Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies
Head of history department of the philosophy - Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies
Professor - History of Philosophy

Chair : History of early modern science and philosophy

Contact

carlarita.palmerino@ru.nl

Personal profile

Visiting address

Thomas van Aquinostraat 4
6525 GD Nijmegen

Postal address

Postbus 9104
6500 HE Nijmegen

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My research focuses on the history of early modern science and philosophy, and more specifically on the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of natural philosophy. Many of my publications deal with theories of space, time and matter, and with early modern discussions concerning the ontological status of mathematical entities. I am also interested in the role of thought experiments in early modern science and philosophy.

Tags: history of early modern philosophy, history of early modern science

Publications

Key publications

Palmerino, C.R. (2026). Tam verba quam diagramma: A Visual History of the Fortune and Misfortune of Galileo’s and Descartes’s Theories of the Tides. In M. Mantovani & D. Cellamare (Eds.), Cartesian Imagery: Picturing Philosophy in the Early Modern Age (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Vol. 45) (pp. 239-272). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004732254_010 Full text
Bellis, D., Garber, D. & Palmerino, C.R. (Ed.). (2023). Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy). New York and London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781315521732
Bakker, F.A. & Palmerino, C.R. (2020). Motion to the Center or Motion to the Whole? Plutarch’s Views on Gravity and Their Influence on Galileo. Isis, 111 (2), 217-238. doi: 10.1086/709138 Full text
Palmerino, C.R. (2018). Discussing What Would Happen: The Role of Thought Experiments in Galileo’s Dialogues. Philosophy of Science, 85 (5), 906-918. doi: 10.1086/699717 Full text
Palmerino, C.R. (2016). Geschichte des Kontinuumproblems or Notes on Fromondus’s Labyrinthus? On the True Nature of LH XXXVII, IV, 57 r°-58v°. The Leibniz Review, 26, 63-97.
Palmerino, C.R. (2011). 'Galileo's Use of Medieval Thought Experiments'. In K. Ierodiakonou & S. Roux (Eds.), Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Context (Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Vol. 15) (pp. 101-125). Leiden, Boston: Brill doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004201767.i-233.22 Full text
Palmerino, C.R. (2011). The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Seventeenth-century Natural Philosophy. Early Science and Medicine, 16, 296-330. doi: 10.1163/157338211X585858 Full text
Palmerino, C.R. & Thijssen, J.M.M.H. (Ed.). (2004). The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 239). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Palmerino, C.R. (1999). Infinite Degrees of Speed. Marin Mersenne and the Debate over Galileo's Law of Free Fall. Early Science and Medicine, 4, 269-328.
Palmerino, C.R. (1999). Pierre Gassendi's De Philosophia Epicuri Universe Rediscovered. New Perspectives on the Genesis of the Syntagma philosophicum. Nuncius. Journal of the History of Science, 14, 131-162.

Prof. C.R. Palmerino (Carla Rita)

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