Benjamin I. Goldberg, Ph.D.

Books

1. Begley, Justin and Benjamin Goldberg (2022). The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish: A Critical Edition of Pw V90. Palgrave-MacMillan.
2. Deer Richardson, Linda (auth.) and Benjamin Goldberg (ed.) (2018). Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel. Springer.
3. Goldberg, Benjamin, Peter Distelzweig, and Evan Ragland (eds.) (2016). Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy. Springer.

Refereed Articles and Chapters

1. Goldberg, Benjamin (2023). "Jean Fernel and William Harvey on Seeds." In: *Analogies et modèles végétaux en médecine dans l'antiquité et l'âge Classique*. Eds. Sarah Carvallo and Arnauld Mace. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté.
2. Goldberg, Benjamin (2023). "The Rules of Anatomy: On the Empiricisms of Descartes and Harvey." In: *Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline*. Ed. Fabrizio Baldassarri. Brepols.
3. Goldberg, Benjamin, Justin Sytsma, and Kevin Reuter (2022). "The history of the concept of pain: How the experts came to be out of touch with the folk." In: *Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine*. Eds. Andreas De Block and Kristien Hens. Bloomsbury Academic.
4. Goldberg, Benjamin, Diego Lucci, and Sorana Corneanu (2022). "Introduction to the Special Issue of JEMS: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Early Modern England." *Special Issue for Journal of Early Modern Studies* 11.1, eds., Benjamin Goldberg, Diego Lucci, and Sorana Corneanu: 9-16.
5. Goldberg, Benjamin (2022). "Concepts of Experience in Royalist Recipe Collections." *Special Issue for Journal of Early Modern Studies* 11.1 eds., Benjamin Goldberg, Diego Lucci, and Sorana Corneanu: 37-68.
6. Goldberg, Benjamin (2022). "The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence by Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino: A priori, a posteriori, and the Historiography of Early Modern Science." *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science* 97, Book Forum.
7. Goldberg, Benjamin (2021). "Religion, Medicine, Politics, and Practice [Essay Review of: Michelle DiMeo, Lady Ranelagh: The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021]." *Journal of Early Modern Studies* 10.2: 133-144.
8. Goldberg, Benjamin (2020). "Generation Theory." In: *Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences*. Eds. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles Wolfe. Springer.
9. Goldberg, Benjamin (2018). "Preface: On the Study of Medicine and Philosophy in the Renaissance." In: *Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance...*. Linda Deer Richardson (auth.) and Benjamin Goldberg (ed.). Springer: xi-xxiv.
10. Goldberg, Benjamin (2017). "Epigenesis and the rationality of nature in William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish." *History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences*, 39.2, 1-23.
11. Goldberg, Benjamin (2017). "Underdetermination and Explanation in William Harvey's Rejection of Materialism." In: *Eppur si muove: Doing Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer*. Eds. Marcus Adams, Zvi Biener, and Uljana Feest. Springer.
12. Goldberg, Benjamin (2016). "The Problem of Obviousness." *Sophia and Philosophia* Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 3. Available at: repository.belmont.edu/sph/voll/iss2/3.
13. Goldberg, Benjamin (2016). "William Harvey on Anatomy and Experience." *Perspectives on Science*, 24:3: 305-323.
14. Goldberg, Benjamin and Peter Distelzweig and Evan Ragland (2016). "Introduction." In: *Early Modern Medicine and Philosophy*, Springer.
15. Goldberg, Benjamin (2013). "A Dark Business, full of shadows: Analogy and theology in William Harvey." *Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences* 44: 419-432.

Reviews

1. Goldberg, Benjamin (2024). "Review of Andrea Strazzoni, The Quarrel over Swammerdam's Posthumous Works (Leiden: Brill, 2023)." *Centaurus* 66(4): 703-705.
2. Goldberg, Benjamin (2023). "Review of Climate Technology, Gender, and Justice: The Standpoint of the Vulnerable (E-Book: Springer, 2019)." *Hypatia* 38(2): 1-5.
3. Goldberg, Benjamin (2016). "Review of Marco Solinas, From Aristotle's Teleology to Darwin's Genealogy: The Stamp of Inutility (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)." *History of Philosophy of Science* 6.1: 174-177.
4. Goldberg, Benjamin (2013). "Review of Stuart Peterfreund, Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)." *Renaissance Quarterly*, 66(2), 643-645.
5. Goldberg, Benjamin and Peter Machamer (2013). "Review of Marcelo Dascal and Victor D. Boantza, editors, Controversies within the Scientific Revolution (John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011)." *Isis* 104(2), 394-395.
6. Goldberg, Benjamin and Charles Wolfe (2012). "Review of Luuc Kooijmans, Death Defied: The Anatomy Lessons of Frederik Ruysch, Translated by Diane Webb (Brill, 2011)." *History of Philosophy of Science*, 2(2).
7. Goldberg, Benjamin (2011). "Review of Lisa T. Sarasohn, The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish: Reason and Fancy During the Scientific Revolution (Johns Hopkins, 2010)." *History of Philosophy of Science* 1(1), 169-172.

Dissertation

"William Harvey, Soul Searcher: Teleology and Philosophical Anatomy"

My dissertation focuses on Harvey's philosophical anatomy and the role of teleology and teleological concepts (most importantly the soul (*anima*)) in both his conception of the subject matter of anatomy, and in his account of proper anatomical method.

For an overview and abstract, please see my dissertation summary.

For a copy of my dissertation, please send me an email or email.

Invited Lectures & Presentations

Invited Lectures

• "Wet Science; or, On the History of Medical Bathing and Spa Waters." (Arad, October 23, 2025)
• "Margaret Cavendish and the Medical Establishment." (Online, June 19, 2024)
• "The Analogy of Seeds in Generation Theory." (Online, Nov 10-11, 2022)
• "The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish [with Dr. Justin Begley]." (Online, October 5, 2022)
• "Pedagogy in William Harvey's Prelectiones anatomie universalis." (Bayreuth, September 29, 2022)
• "Medicine and Film." (Varna, September 11, 2022)
• "Concepts of Experience in Royalist Recipe Collections." (Online, November 18-19 and 26, 2021)
• "Oeconomicks, receipts, and household medicine/" (Online, December 3, 2021)
• "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy." (Online, November 11, 2020)
• "Artificial Intelligence, Moral Philosophy, and Medicine." (Online, June 22, 2020)
• "Making Medicines in 17th Century England." (Blagoevgrad, February 11, 2020)
• "Margaret Cavendish and Household Science." (Tampa, February 22, 2019)
• “Margaret Cavendish’s Medical Recipes: Medicine, Experience, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England.” (Minneapolis, October 26, 2018)
• “Women’s Work as Philosophy: Bathsua Makin, the Talbot Sisters, and Margaret Cavendish.” (Blagoevgrad, December 12, 2017)
• “Underdetermination and Obviousness.” (Durham, October 20, 2016)
• “Margaret Cavendish on Universal Medicine, Disease, and Natural Philosophy.” (Turin, March 22, 2016)
• “Lessons from the History of Medicine.” (Marshfield, September 24, 2015)
• “What is Disease?” (Johnson City, April 11, 2013)
• “When is the womb like the brain? William Harvey on Analogies.” (Johnson City, April 5, 2013)
• “Physicians and Philosophers.” (Johnson City, March 16, 2011)
• “From Descartes to Voltaire.” (Marshfield, November 10, 2005)

Conference Talks and Presentations

• "Losing the Battle but Winning the War? Nicholas Culpeper and the Struggle to Reform English Medicine." (Nuremberg, July 4, 2025)
• "The Problem of Piles; or, the Horror of Hemorrhoids." (Tampa, February 28, 2024)
• "Tests, Trials, and Experiments in the Works of William Harvey." (Venice, November 22, 2023)
• "Enemas and Opium: Medical Recipes in the $17^{th}$ Century." (Tampa, March 23, 2023)
• "Universal Medicine and Experiment in the Recipe Collections of Margaret and William Cavendish." (Bucharest, October 14-15, 2022)
• "Concepts of Experience in Royalist Recipe Collections." (Brussels, September 7-10, 2022)
• “Notions of Experience in Early Modern Anatomy and Pharmacy,” (Online, November 17, 2020)
• “Cavendish and the Legacy of Medical Humanism,” (Online, August 21, 2020)
• “Early Modern Recipes and Medical Experience,” (Belfast, June 13, 2019)
• “Royalist Recipes and Common Cures in a Seventeenth-Century Medical Manuscript,” (Helsinki, June 10, 2019)
• “The Cavendishes and Medicine, Nottingham Pw V 90,” (Trondheim, June 7, 2019)
• “Severus Snape Was a Scientist: Making Medicines in Early Modern England,” (Tampa, October 31, 2018)
• “Margaret Cavendish and Kitchen-Physic,” (New Orleans, March 22-24, 2018)
• “William Harvey and Margaret Cavendish on the Generation of Animals: Materialist and Aristotelian Models of Explanation,” (Minneapolis, June 22-25, 2016)
• “Underdetermination and Explanation in Historical Context,” (Indianapolis, February 20, 2016)
• “What can Qualitative Methods tell us about Quantitative Methods? Lessons from Historiography,” (Saint Petersburg, March 13, 2015)
• “Dignity, Natural Theology, and Epigenesis,” (Boston, November 22, 2013)
• “On the Origins of Empirical Philosophy: From Humanism to Harvey,” (Groningen, June 15, 2013)
• “Harvey, Humanism, and Eclectic Aristotelianism,” (Brussels, May 24, 2013)
• “Experiencing the Ends of Nature: William Harvey’s Teleological Method,” (San Diego, November 16, 2012)
• “A Tale of Two Anatomies,” (Pittsburgh, November 3, 2012)
• “Experientia in William Harvey’s Natural Philosophy,” (Reading, UK, June 14, 2012)
• “The Soul Unfolding,” (Pittsburgh, May 27, 2011)
• “What the Heck is the Regula Socratis?” (Johnson City, March 18, 2011)
• “Generation as Disease, Generation as Idea: William Harvey on the Generation of Animals,” (Ghent, Belgium, February 23-24, 2011)
• “Ex Naturae Declarabimus: William Harvey and Natural Theology,” (Phoenix, November 19-22, 2009)
• “De Generatione and the New Science,” (Pittsburgh, November 6-9, 2008)
• “Leibniz, Mechanisms, and Machines,” (Vancouver, Canada, June 3-5, 2008)
• “Explanatory Language in Darwin’s Origin,” (Pittsburgh, March 24, 2007)
• “The Power of God and the Power of Man: Regnier de Graaf and the Construction of Women’s Bodies,” (Atlanta, January 4-7, 2007)
• “Regnier de Graaf’s Work on Sexual Anatomy,” Poster Presentation. (Warwick, UK, June 28 – June 30, 2006)
• “Regnier de Graaf on the Generative Organs,” (York, Canada, May 29- May 31, 2006)
• “Early Modern Reproductive Anatomy and the One-Sex Model: A Case Study of the work of Regnier de Graaf,” (Baltimore, March 24- March 25, 2006)