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Degrees Awarded
HPS Ph.D. Students
HPS M.A. Students
Other Notre Dame Ph.D.s
in the History and Philosophy of Science
HPS Ph.D. Students:
2008 Ph.D.
Brandon Fogel (B.A., English Literature; B.Sc., Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 1996)
Dissertation: "Epistemology of a Theory of Everything: Weyl, Einstein, and the Unification of Physics."
(Advisor: Don Howard)
Current Status: Harper Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Brandon.Fogel.1@nd.edu
James Brian Pitts (B.Sc., Physics, Georgia Tech, 1995; Ph.D., Physics, Univesity of Texas at Austin, 2001)
Dissertation: "General Covariance, Artifcial Gauge Freedom, and Empirical Equivalence"
(Advisor: Don Howard)
Current Status: Sorin Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
James.B.Pitts.9@nd.edu
2007 Ph.D.
Nahyan Fancy (B.A., Knox College, 1997; M.A., University of Toronto, 1999)
Dissertation: "Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine,
Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288)."
(Advisors: Ahmad Dallal and Phillip R. Sloan)
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Department of History, DePauw University
nahyanfancy@depauw.edu
Daniel McKaughan (B.A., Chemistry and Biology, University of Oregon, 1996;
M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1999)
Dissertation: "Toward a Richer Vocabulary for Epistemic Attitudes: Mapping the Cognitive Landscape."
(Advisor: Don Howard)
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston College
daniel.mckaughan@bc.edu
2006 Ph.D.
Justin Biddle (B.A., Philosophy; B.Sc., Physics, University of Dayton, 1999)
Dissertation: "Socializing Science: On the Epistemic Significance of the Institutional Context of Science."
(Advisor: Don Howard)
Current Status: Wissenschaftliche Arbeiter, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University
justin.biddle@philosophie.uni-bielefeld.de
2005 Ph.D.
Mioara (Deac) Merie (B.Sc., Physics, University of Babes-Boyal, 1983)
Dissertation: "Mirror of the World or Submerged Unconscious? Hallucinations
and the Victorians (1853-1901)."
(Advisor: Christopher Hamlin)
Current Status: Visiting Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies,
University of Notre Dame
Mioara.Deac.1@nd.edu
2004 Ph.D.
Roberta Berry (B.A., History, Swarthmore,
1976; JD, Wisconsin, 1982)
Dissertation: "Genetic Enhancement and the Utopian Temptation."
(Advisor: Phillip R. Sloan)
Current Status: Associate Professor, School of Public Policy,
Georgia Tech.
roberta.berry@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Kevin Elliott (B.Sc., Philosophy and Chemistry,
Wheaton College, 1997)
Dissertation: "Scientific Anomaly and Biological Effects
of Low-Dose Chemicals: Elucidating Normative Ethics and
Scientific Discovery." (Advisor: Kristin Shrader-Frechette)
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Department
of Philosophy, University of South Carolina.
elliotkc@gwm.sc.edu
Darin Hayton (B.Sc., Chemistry, California
State University at Long Beach, 1989; M.A. History, California
State University at Long Beach, 1996)
Dissertation: "Astrology in Early Sixteenth-Century Vienna."
(Advisor: Howard Louthan)
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Haverford College
dhayton@haverford.edu
Christopher V. Mirus (B.A., Philosophy,
Christendom College, 1997)
Dissertation: "Aristotle on the Unity of Living Substance."
(Advisors: Phillip R. Sloan and Michael Loux)
Current Status:Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Dallas.
2003 Ph.D.
Matthew Dowd (B.Sc., Aeronautical and
Astronautical Engineering, A.B., Religious Studies, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1992; M.T.S., The Divinity
School, Duke University, 1994)
Dissertation: "Astronomy and Compotus at Oxford University
in the Early Thirteenth Century: The Works of Robert Grosseteste."
(Advisor: Michael Crowe)
Current Status: Manuscript Editor, University of Notre Dame
Press.
Matthew.F.Dowd.11@nd.edu
Ryan MacPherson (B.A., Integrative Studies, Arizona State
University, 1997)
Dissertation: "America's Vestiges of Creation: Nature's
Development and Divine Presence amid Pre-Darwinian Struggles
for Civilization." (Advisor: Phillip R. Sloan)
Current Status: Assistant Professor of History, Bethany
Lutheran College.
mac@blc.edu
2002 Ph.D.
Sofie Lachapelle (B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics, Univerité
de Montréal, 1996)
Dissertation: "A World Outside of Science: French Attitudes
Toward Mediumistic Phenomena, 1853-1931." (Advisors:
Michael Crowe and Thomas Kselman)
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Hisotry,
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
slachap@uoguelph.ca
2001 Ph.D.
Alisa Bokulich (B.A., Philosophy, Washington State University,
1993)
Dissertation: "Philosophical Perspectives on Quantum
Chaos: Models and Interpretations." (Advisor: James
T. Cushing)
Current Status: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
Boston University
abokulic@bu.edu
Patrick McDonald (B.A., Philosophy, Seattle University,
1994)
Dissertation: "Hermann von Helmholtz's Epistemology
of Experiment: The Case of Physiological Acoustics."
(Advisor: Don Howard)
Current Status: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
Seattle Pacific University
mcdonp@spu.edu
Steven Ruskin (B.A., History, Colorado State University,
1995)
Dissertation: "'A Private Adventure': John Herschel's
Cape Voyage and the Production of the Cape Results."
(Advisor: Michael Crowe)
Current Status: Independent Scholar, Colorado Springs, Colorado
sruskin@mac.com
1999 Ph.D.
Michael Letteney (B.A., Thomas Aquinas College, 1988)
Dissertation: "Georges Cuvier, Transcendental Naturalist:
A Study of Teleological Explanation in Biology" (Advisor:
Phillip R. Sloan)
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Thomas Aquinas College
MLetteney@thomasaquinas.edu
Christopher McClellan (B.A., Philosophy and French, University
of Nebraska, Omaha, 1985; M.A., Philosophy, University of
Colorado, 1989)
Dissertation: "Science, Intellect, and Social Evolution:
A Study of Auguste Comte's Philosophy of Science"(Advisors:
Ernan McMullin and Philip Mirowski)
Current Status: Propietor and owner, Blue Line Coffee, Omaha,
Nebraska
chrismcc@cox.net
1998 Ph.D.
Yuri Balashov (M.Sc., Astrophysics, Moscow Institute of
Science and Technology, 1983; Ph.D., Philosophy of Science,
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1986)
Dissertation: "Laws of Nature and the Universe: Philosophical
Implications of Modern Cosmology" (Advisors: James
T. Cushing and Ernan McMullin)
Current Status: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
University of Georgia
yuri@uga.edu
Darrin Belousek (B.Sc., Physics, Bradley University, 1992)
Dissertation: "Ontological Commitments and Theory Appraisal
in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" (Advisor:
James T. Cushing)
Current Status: Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Theology,
Lithuania Christian College, Klaipeda, Lithuania
dbelousek@lcc.lt
Marvin Bolt (B.A., Physics, Calvin College, 1984)
Dissertation: "John Herschel's Natural Philosophy:
On the Knowing of Nature and the Nature of Knowing in Early-nineteenth-century
Britain" (Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
Current Status: Director, History of Astronomy, Adler Planetarium
& Astronomy Museum, Chicago
Marvin.P.Bolt.1@nd.edu
or mbolt@adlernet.org
Vladimir Jankovic (B.Sc., Atmospheric Physics, University
of Belgrade, 1985)
Dissertation: "Meteors under Scrutiny: Private, Public,
and Professional Weather in Britain, 1660-1800" (Advisor:
Christopher S. Hamlin)
Current Status: Lecturer, Centre for the History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
vladimir.jankovic@man.ac.uk
1996 Ph.D.
Christopher Blum (B.A., University of Virginia)
Dissertation: "St. George Mivart: Catholic Natural
Philosopher" (Advisor: Phillip R. Sloan)
Current Status: Associate Professor and Chair, Department
of History, Christendom College.
coblum@christendom.edu
1995 Ph.D.
Kelly Ann Hamilton (B.A., St. Mary's College; M.A., HPS,
University of Notre Dame)
Dissertation: "The Philosophical Significance of Wittgenstein's
Engineering Training for the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
(Advisors: Ernan McMullin and J. Robert Wegs)
Current Status: Associate Professor, Department of History,
St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN.
hamilton@saintmarys.edu
HPS M.A. Students:
2005 M.A.
Patrick Slaney (B.A., Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 2001)
Thesis: "Problems of Scientific Culture: The Task of Science Education in the Atomic Age" (Adviser: Don Howard)
Current Status: Ph.D. student, Department of History, University of British Columbia
2004 M.A.
John Mullen (B.Sc., US Naval Academy,
1983; M.A., Reformed Theological Seminary, 1994; M.A., Philosophy,
Texas A&M University, 1998; Ph.D., Philosophy, Notre
Dame, 2004)
Current Status: Visiting Assistant Professor, Valparaiso
University, Valparaiso, IN.
John.Mullen@valpo.edu
2001 M.A.
Keith Lafortune (B.Sc., Stonehill College, 1999)
Thesis: "Women at the Harvard College Observatory,
1877 - 1919: 'Women's Work,' the 'New' Sociality of Astronomy,
and Scientific Labor" (Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
Keith.R.Lafortune.1@nd.edu
1999 M.A.
Brent D. Brower-Toland
Thesis: "Animal Souls in a Mechanical Age: Thomas Willis
v. Rene Descartes on the Nature of Beasts" (Advisor:
Phillip R. Sloan)
1998 M.A.
Colin Holden (B.A., Cornell College, 1995)
Thesis: "Letting the Native Speak: Professional Authority
and Writing in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century American
Anthropology" (Advisors: Christopher S. Hamlin, James
Turner, and Phillip R. Sloan)
holdencj@muohio.edu
Steven Ruskin (B.A., History, Colorado State University,
1995)
Thesis: "Sir John Herschel's Cape Results in Context:
The Production of Science in the British Empire, 1831-1849"
(Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
Current Status: Analyst, MX Logic, Denver, Colorado
sruskin@mac.com
1994 M.A.
Margaret Anne Davis
Thesis: "A Rare Union of Poetry with Science: Charles
Darwin's Scientific Discourse" (Advisor: Phillip R.
Sloan)
1991 M.A.
Joseph T. Ross
Thesis: "Kant's and Hegel's Assessment of Analogical
Arguments for Extraterrestrial Life" (Advisor: Michael
J. Crowe)
Current Status: Assistant Librarian, Hesburgh Library, University
of Notre Dame
Joseph.T.Ross.40@nd.edu
1985 M.A.
James J. Kevin
Thesis: "Man's Place in the Universe: Alfred Russel
Wallace, Teleological Evolution, and the Question of Extraterrestrial
Life"
Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
1981 M.A.
Orville Roderick Butler
Thesis: "Edward Singleton Holden and American Astronomy, 1870-1900" (Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
1979; Ph.D. History of Technology/Science, Iowa State University, 1993; M.Juris. International Trade Law, Bond University, 2001
Current Status: Project Historian, History of Physicists in Industry Project, American Institute of Physics.
obutler@aip.org
1978 M.A.
Robert M. Hawthorne
Thesis: "Friedrich Wöhler and the Professionalization
of Chemistry in Nineteenth-century Germany"
1977 M.A.
William K. Collins
Thesis: "The Early History of Nuclear Physics at Notre
Dame" (Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
Current Status: Director, Marriage and Family Training Center,
Presbyterian Counseling Service, Seattle, WA
mftcenter@aol.com
1976 M.A.
Rev. Thomas Gariepy, CSC
Thesis: "The Acceptance of Antiseptic Surgery in the
United States"
Current Status: Professor, Department of History, Stonehill
College
tgariepy@stonehill.edu
1975 M.A.
Michael H. Shank
Thesis: "Lamarck's Early Theory of Fire: A Study of
the First Volume of his Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux
Faits Physiques" (Advisor: Michael J. Crowe)
Current Status: Professor, Department of History of Science,
Medicine, and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
mhshank@facstaff.wisc.edu
Other Notre Dame Ph.D.s
in the History and Philosophy of Science:
2003 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Peter Bokulich. “Horizons of Description:
Black Holes and Complementarity” (Advisor: Don Howard).
Current Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Boston University
pbokulic@bu.edu
1996 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Mark Webb
Dissertation: "Explanation, Explanatory Success, and
Realism" (Advisor: Ernan McMullin)
1995 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Michael Dickson
Dissertation: "Probability and Locality: Determinism
versus Indeterminism in Quantum Mechanics" (Advisor:
James T. Cushing)
Current Status: Assocciate Professor, Department of History
and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
midickso@indiana.edu
1992 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
William Christopher Stewart
Dissertation: "Social and Economic Aspects of Charles
Sanders Peirce's Conception of Science" (Advisor: Cornelius
Delaney)
Current Status: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
Houghton College
chris.stewart@houghton.edu
1991 Ph.D. (Department of History)
Craig Stillwell
Dissertation: "The Wisdom of Cells: The Integrity of
Élie Metchnikoff's Ideas in Biology and Pathology"
(Advser: Christopher S. Hamlin)
1989 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Patrick A. Wilson
Dissertation: "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle"
(Advisor: Ernan McMullin)
Current Status: Associate Professor and Chair, Department
of Philosophy, Hampton-Sydney Collge
patrickw@tiger.hsc.edu
1988 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Timothy Shanahan
Dissertation: "The Units of Selection Controversy:
A Case Study in the History and Philosophy of Biology"
(Advisor: Edward Manier)
Current Status: Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola
Marymount University
tshanaha@lmu.edu
1987 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Rose-Mary C. Sargent
Dissertation: "Robert Boyle and the Experimental Ideal"
(Advisor: Ernan McMullin)
Current Status: Professor, Department of Philosophy, Merrimack
College
RSargent@merrimack.edu
1982 Ph.D. (Department of Philosophy)
Robert Alfred Strikwerda
Dissertation: "Emile Durkheim's Philosophy of Science:
Framework for a New Social Science" (Advisor: Vaughn
McKim)
Current Status: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,
and Director of the Honors Program, Indiana University Kokomo
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