Alan Gabbey

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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|main_interests = Early Modern Philosophy (Spinoza, Descartes, and Newton)

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William Alan Gabbey (born 1938) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Barnard College. He is also Reader Emeritus in History and Philosophy of Science at Queen's University of Belfast and a membre effectif of the International Academy of the History of Science.

Gabbey is known for his works on early modern philosophy.{{cite journal |last1=Gargett |first1=Graham |title=Notes on the Contributors |journal=Heroism and Passion in Literature |date=10 April 2004 |pages=viii–xii |doi=10.1163/9789401201575_002 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-94-012-0157-5 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=History of Science etc |url=http://www.rjtechne.org/itimes/hstsci70.htm |website=www.rjtechne.org}}{{cite journal |last1=Slowik |first1=Ed |title=Review of Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy |journal=NDPR |date=1 September 2002 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/descartes-system-of-natural-philosophy/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Ott |first1=Walter |title=Review of Causation and Modern Philosophy |journal=NDPR |date=4 July 2011 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/causation-and-modern-philosophy/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Biener |first1=Zvi |title=Review of The Cambridge Companion to Newton |journal=NDPR |date=4 January 2003 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-cambridge-companion-to-newton/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Pitt |first1=Joseph C. |title=Review of The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe |journal=NDPR |date=6 July 2005 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/the-reception-of-the-galilean-science-of-motion-in-seventeenth-century-europe/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=LeBuffe |first1=Michael |title=Review of Spinoza |journal=NDPR |date=8 February 2009 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/spinoza/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}{{cite journal |last1=Hattab |first1=Helen |title=Review of Interpreting Suárez: Critical Essays |journal=NDPR |date=19 December 2012 |url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/interpreting-surez-critical-essays/ |language=en |issn=1538-1617}}