Research

Professor Force obtained his Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1977. He centers his research upon the history of philosophy and science in the early modern period and is especially interested in the nature of the connection between Newton's theology and Newton's science.

Selected Publications

• William Whiston. Honest Newtonian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.)
• “Newton’s Theocentric Cosmognony and Hume’s Cometary Seeds,” in Religion, Reason and Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1750, ed. Robert Crocker. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
• "The Virgin, the Dynamo, and Newton's Prophetic History," in The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics, and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, ed. James E. Force and Richard H. Popkin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.