The latest special issue of Synthese on "The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy", edited by Tamás Demeter and Eric Schliesser, has been published.
Contributions include:
1. Tamás Demeter and Eric Schliesser: The uses and abuses of mathematics in early modern philosophy: introduction
2. Mark Wilson: What I've learned from the early moderns
3. Alan Nelson: Descartes on the limited usefulness of mathematics
4. Mary Domski: Imagination, metaphysics, mathematics: Descartes's arguments for the Vortex Hypothesis
5. Alison Peterman: Empress vs. Spider-Man: Margaret Cavendish on pure and applied mathematics
6. Jonathan L. Shaheen: Part of nature and division in Margaret Cavendish's materialism
7. Gábor Áron Zemplén: Diagrammatic carriers and the acceptance of Newton's optical theory
8. Steffen Ducheyne: Constraining (mathematical) imagination by experience: Nieuwentijt and van Musschenbroek on the abuses of mathematics
9. Tamás Demeter: Hume on the social construction of mathematical knowledge
10. Charles T. Wolfe: Vital anti-mathematicism and the ontology of emerging life-sciences: from Mandeville to Diderot