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What Are You Reading…On Atomism

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Last week, at bar trivia, the host asked which nineteenth century English scientist is credited with formulating the modern theory of atomism. Unfortunately, my team did not know the answer (fortunately, no other team did either, so the question was thrown out and we got a new one we did know the answer to). I felt foolish after hearing it was John Dalton, as I am certain he was someone I studied when I was younger, and those are the types of facts I try to remember. Me and my friend (also a philosopher) were tempted to write down a list of all the atomists we could think of, as the philosophy of atomism was key part of our comprehensive exams, and so many names were flashing through our heads.

Reflecting on the incident led me to look up the recent work that has been done on atomism. It seems to fall primarily into two categories: papers looking at the role atomism played in the history of philosophy, and papers considering atomism in relation to new discoveries. Here are some of the more interesting papers I found.

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