Epicurean and galilean motion in gassendi's physics

Philosophy Compass 3 (2):301–314 (2008)
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This is about the tension between Epicurean and Galilean accounts of motion in Gassendi. For my more recent thoughts on this, see http://philpapers.org/rec/LOLCEG

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10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00127.x

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