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Faculty Details
James Matthew Ashley (Ph.D.
University of Chicago, 1993). Associate Professor of Theology.
Science and theology, liberation theology. Books: Interruptions:
Mysticism, Theology and Politics in the Work of Johannes
Baptist Metz (1998); editor/translator: J. B. Metz,
A Passion for God: The Mystical-Political Dimension of Christianity(1998).
Recent Articles: "The Turn to Spirituality? The Relationship
Between Theology and Spirituality" (1995); "A Post-Einsteinian
Settlement? On Spirituality as a Possible Border-Crossing
Between Religion and the New Science" (1998). Email: James.M.Ashley.2@nd.edu
Katherine Brading (D.Phil.,
University of Oxford, 2002). Assistant Professor of Philosophy.
Philosophy of physics, especially symmetries and conservation
laws in contemporary physics, and including quantum mechanics,
relativity, and seventeenth-century cosmology. Books: (co-editor)
Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections
(fall 2003). Recent articles: "‘Scientific Structuralism: Presentation and Representation" (with Dr. E. Landry, forthcoming); "Symmetries in classical physics" (with Elena Castellani, forthcoming); ‘A note on general relativity, energy conservation, and Noether’s theorems’ (2005); "Are gauge transformations observable?" (with Harvey Brown, 2004); "Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking"
(2003); "General Covariance from the
Perspective of Noether's Theorems" (with Harvey Brown, 2002); "Which Symmetry?
Noether, Weyl, and Conservation of Electric Charge" (2002);
"The Concept of a Hypothesis in Seventeenth Century Physics"
(2000). Email: kbrading@nd.edu Website: http://www.nd.edu/~kbrading/index.html
Jon T. Coleman (Ph. D. Yale University, 2003). Assistant Professor of History. Environmental history, human and animal relations, early American history, American West. Books: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (2004). Recent Articles: “Give Me Your Home: Animals in the American West” (2007), “Animal Last Stands: Empathy and Extinction in the American West,” (2005), “The Prim Reaper: Muriel Sibell Wolle and the Making of Western Ghost Towns,” (2001), “The Men in McArthur’s Bar: The Cultural Significance of the Margins,” (2000). Email:
Michael J. Crowe (Ph.D., Univ.
of Wisconsin, 1965). Rev. John J. Cavanaugh Professor (emeritus)
in Humanities in the Program of Liberal Studies. History of astronomy, physics and
mathematics, 1700-1900. Books: A History of Vector Analysis
(1967); The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900: The
Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell (1986);
Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican
Revolution (1990); (editor) The Letters and Papers
of Sir John Herschel : A Guide to the Manuscripts and Microfilm
(1991); Modern Theories of the Universe from Herschel
to Hubble (1994); M. J. Crowe (ed.), David R. Dyck and
James J. Kevin (associate eds.), Calendar of the Correspondence
of Sir John F. W. Herschel (1998); Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein (in press). Recent Articles:
"Duhem and the History and Philosophy of Mathematics" (1990);
"A Revolution in the Historiography of Mathematics?" (1992);
"John Herschel: Britain's First Modern Physical Scientist"
(1994); "Extraterrestrial Intelligence" (1997); "John Herschel
and the Leeds Astronomical Society" (1998); "Pierre Duhem,
the History and Philosophy of Physics, and the Teaching
of Physics" (1999); with Matthew Dowd, "Archaeoastronomy
and the History of Science" (1999); "Astronomy and Religion:
Some Historical Interactions Regarding Belief in Extraterrestrial
Intelligent Life" (2001); "John Herschel" (2005). Email: Michael.J.Crowe.1@nd.edu
Christopher Fox (Ph.D., SUNY-
Binghamton, 1978). Professor of English. Interactions between
literature and medicine, psychology and science during the
18th century. Books: (editor) Psychology and Literature
in the Eighteenth Century (1987); Locke and the Scriblerians:
Identity and Consciousness in Eighteenth Century Britain
(1988); (editor) Gulliver's Travels: A Case Study in
Contemporary Criticism (1994); (coeditor) Inventing
Human Science: Eighteenth Century Domains (1995); Introducer
and editor, Gulliver's Travels: Complete Authoritative
Text (1995); (editor) Walking Naboth's Vineyand:
New Studies of Swift. Recent Articles: "Defining Eighteenth
Century Psychology: Some Problems and Perspectives" (1987);
"Of Logic and Lycanthropy: Gulliver and the Faculties of
the Mind" (1993); "How to Prepare a Noble Savage: the Spectacle
of Human Science" (1995); "Swift and the Spectacle of Human
Science" (1995). Email: Christopher.B.Fox.1@nd.edu
Robert D. Goulding (Ph.D.,
Warburg Institute (University of London), 1999). Assistant
Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies. History of
optics and history of magic; humanism and science at the
medieval and Renaissance universities. Current project:
The Optical Culture of the Renaissance. Recent articles: "Polemic in the Margin: Henry Savile and Joseph Scaliger
on the Quadrature of the Circle" (forthcoming); "Deceiving
the Senses in the Thirteenth Century: Trickery and Illusion
in the Secretum philosophorum" (forthcoming); "Science
at the Elizabethan Universities" (2002); "Who Wrote Themistius'
Twelfth Oration?" (2000). Email: Robert.D.Goulding.2@nd.edu
Gary M. Gutting (Ph.D., St.
Louis Univ., 1968). Professor of Philosophy. Continental
approaches to philosophy of science. Books: (editor) Paradigms
and Revolutions: Applications and Appraisals of Thomas Kuhn's
Philosophy of Science (1980); (coeditor) Science
and Reality: Essays in Honor of Ernan McMullin (1984);
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
(1989). Recent Articles: "Gaston Bachelard's Philosophy
of Science" (1987); "Continental Approaches to History and
Philosophy of Science" (1989); "Foucault's Genealogical
Method" (1990); "Scientific Methodology," in The Blackwell
Companion to the Philosophy of Science(1997); Articles in
the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1997): "French
History and Philosophy of Science," "Michel Foucault," "Poststructuralism,
and the Social Sciences." Email: Gary.M.Gutting.1@nd.edu
Christopher S. Hamlin (Ph.D.,
Univ. of Wisconsin, 1982). Professor of History. History
of technology and history of medicine. Books: What Becomes
of Pollution? Adversary Science and the Controversy on the
Self-Purification of Rivers in Britain, 1850-1900 (1987);
A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth-Century
Britain (1990); (co-author) Deep Disagreement in
U.S. Agriculture: Making Sense of Policy Conflict (1993);
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick:
Britain 1800-1854 (1998). Recent Articles: "Concepts
of Predisposing Causes in the Early Nineteenth Century Public
Health Movement" (1992); "Reflexivity in Technology Studies:
Toward a Technology of Technology (and Science)?" (1992);
"Between Knowledge and Action: Themes in the History of
Environmental Chemistry" (1993); "Environmental Sensibility
in Edinburgh, 1839-1840: the 'Fetid Irrigation' Controversy"(1994).
Email: Christopher.S.Hamlin.1@nd.edu.
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~chamlin
David Harley (ABD, University
of Oxford), Visiting Instructor in History. History of early
modern science and ideas, medicine, psychology, and witchcraft.
Recent articles: "The Theology of Affliction and the Experience
of Sickness in the Godly Family, 1650-1714 (1996); Explaining
Salem: Calvinist Psychology and the Diagnosis of Possession"
(1996); "The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting"
(1998); "James Hart of Northampton and the Calvinist Critique
of Priest-Physicians" (1998); "Rhetoric and the Social Construction
of Sickness and Healing" (1999). Email: David.N.Harley.4@nd.edu
Don A. Howard (Director) (Ph.D.,
Boston University, 1979). Professor of Philosophy. Philosophy
of science, foundations of physics, history of philosophy
of science. Books: Einstein and the History of General
Relativity, co-editor with John Stachel, (1989); The
Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 2, The
Swiss Years: Writings, 1900-1909, asst. ed. with John
Stachel et al. (1989); The Collected Papers of Albert
Einstein, vol. 3, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1909-1912,
contributing ed. with Martin Klein et al. (1993); Einstein:
The Formative Years, 1879-1909, co-editor with John
Stachel (2001). Recent Articles: "Was Einstein Really a
Realist?" (1993); "Einstein, Kant, and the Origins of Logical
Empiricism" (1994); "Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and Monomorphism:
Rudolf Carnap and the Development of the Categoricity Concept
in Formal Semantics" (1996); "A Peek Behind the Veil of
Maya: Einstein, Schopenhauer, and the Historical Background
of the Conception of Space as a Ground for the Individuation
of Physical Systems" (1997); "Astride the Divided Line:
Platonism, Empiricism, and Einstein's Epistemological Opportunism"
(1998); "Point Coincidences and Pointer Coincidences: Einstein
on Invariant Structure in Spacetime Theories" (1999); "Two
Left Turns Make a Right: On the Curious Political Career
of North American Philosophy of Science at Mid-century"
(2003); "Lost Wanderers in the Forest of Knowledge:
Some Advice on How to Think about the Relation between Discovery
and Justification" (2003); "Who Invented the Copenhagen
Interpretation: A Study in Mythology" (2004); "Einstein
as a Philosopher of Science" (2005); “Reduction
and Emergence in the Physical Sciences: Some Lessons from
the Particle Physics–Condensed Matter Physics Debate”
(2005) . Email: Don.A.Howard.43@nd.edu.
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~dhoward1
Anja Jauernig (Ph.D. Princeton 2004), Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Kant, History of Modern Philosophy (esp. Leibniz), Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Aesthetics. Recent Articles: “Kant’s Critique of the Leibnizian Philosophy: contra the Leibnizians, but pro Leibniz“ (forthcoming), “Must empiricism be a stance, and could it be one? How to be an empiricist and a philosopher at the same time” (forthcoming). Email: Jauernig.1@nd.edu. Website: http://www.nd.edu/~ajauerni/AnjaJauernig.htm
Lynn S. Joy (Ph.D. Harvard, 1982).
Professor of Philosophy. Changing conceptions of nature
and the natural in both metaphysics and the special sciences.
Books: Gassendi the Atomist: Advocate of History in an
Age of Science (1987). Recent Articles: "Necessity,
Contingency, and the Natural in Modern Science" (1997);
"Did Natural Law and Equal Expectation Guarantee the Rationality
of Belief?" (1998); "The Problem of Active Causes in Newton
and the Stoics" (forthcoming); "Changing Conceptions of
Scientific Explanation: The Decline of Formal Causes and
the Rise of Laws of Nature" (forthcoming). Email: Lynn.Joy.6@nd.edu
Janet A. Kourany (Ph.D., Columbia
University, 1977). Associate Professor of Philosophy. Philosophy of science, science and values, feminist philosophy. Books: (editor) Scientific Knowledge (1987, 1998); (editor and contributor) Philosophy in a Feminist Voice (1998); (coeditor) Feminist Philosophies (1992, 1999); (editor) The Gender of Science (2002); (coeditor and contributor) Science and Values: The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice (forthcoming). Recent articles: "Philosophy in a Feminist Voice?" and "A New Program for Philosophy of Science, in Many Voices" (1998); "What Does Feminism Contribute to Philosophy of Science?" and "No Need to Be Sorry, Virginia (2000); "A Successor to the Realism/Antirealism Question" (2000); "Socially Responsible Directions for Philosophy of Science" (2003); "A Philosophy of Science for the Twenty-First Century" and "Reply to Giere" (2003); "How to Complete the Compatibilist Account of Free Action" (2004); "A Feminist Primer for Philosophers of Science" (2005); "Feminist Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Perspectives" (2006); "Getting Philosophy of Science Socially Connected" (2006); "Science and Philosophy of Science: Potential Allies in the Struggle for Equality" (2007); "Making a Place for the Other" (2007). Email: Janet.A.Kourany.3@nd.edu
A. Edward Manier (Ph.D., St.
Louis Univ., 1961). Professor of Philosophy. History and
philosophy of biology and the neuromedical sciences, social
studies of science. Books: The Young Darwin and His Cultural
Circle (1978); (editor) Neurobiology and Narrative
(forthcoming). Recent Articles: "Reductionist Rhetoric:
Expository Strategies and the Development of the Molecular
Neurobiology of Behavior" (1989); "Walker Percy: Language,
Neuropsychology and Moral Tradition" (1991); "Conditions
for the Possibility of Human Behavioral Genetics" (forthcoming).
Email: A.E.Manier.1@nd.edu
Vaughn R. McKim (Ph.D., Yale,
1966). Associate Professor of Philosophy. Philosophy of
social science, philosophy of technology, contemporary metaphysical
issues in philosophy of science. Books: (coeditor and contributor)
Causality in Crisis? Statistical Methods and the Search
for Causal Knowledge in the Social Sciences (1997).
Recent Articles: "Scientific Rationality: Construction or
Constraint?" (1988); "Singular Causal Explanation in the
Social Sciences" (forthcoming). Email: Vaughn.R.McKim.1@nd.edu
Rev. Ernan McMullin (Ph.D.,
Louvain, 1954). John Cardinal O'Hara Professor (emeritus)
of Philosophy. Issues in contemporary philosophy of science,
the history of scientific methodology, the relationship
of religion to the natural sciences. Books: (editor) Galileo,
Man of Science (1967); Newton on Matter and Activity
(1978); (editor) Evolution and Creation (1985); (editor)
Construction and Constraint: The Shaping of Scientific
Rationality (1988); (coeditor) Philosophical Consequences
of Quantum Theory (1989); (editor) The Social Dimensions
of Science (1992); The Inference that Makes Science
(1992); (editor) The Church and Galileo (2005). Recent Articles: "Taking an Empirical Stance" (2007); "Tuning Fine-tuning" (2008); "Explanation as Confirmation in Descartes' Natural Philosophy" (2008); "The Virtues of a Good Theory" (2008); "Academic Freedom and Competing Authorities: Historical Reflections" (2008); "Quoting Feyerabend on Galileo" (2008); "Creation ex
nihilo: Early History"(2008); "The Galileo Affair" (2008). Email: Ernan.McMullin.1@nd.edu
Philip E. Mirowski (Ph.D.,
Univ. of Michigan, 1979). Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics
and Policy Studies and the History and Philosophy of Science.
History and philosophy of economic theory. Books: Against
Mechanism: Protecting Economics from Science (1988);
More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics
(1989); (editor) Edgeworth's Writings on Chance, Probability
and Statistics (1994); (editor) Natural Images in
Economics: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw (1994); (editor)
The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton
(1999); Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
(2001); (editor with Esther-Mirjam Sent) Science Bought
and Sold (2001). Recent Articles: "Mandelbrot's Economics
After a Quarter-Century" (1995); "Three Ways of Thinking
About Testing in Econometrics" (1995); "Harold Hotelling
and the Neoclassical Dream" (1997); "Civilization and its
Discounts" (1995); "On Playing the Economics Trump Card
in the Philosophy of Science: Why It Didn't Work for Michael
Polanyi" (1997); "Markets as Evolving Computational Entities"
(1998); "Cyborg Agonistes" (1999); "The Economic Consequences
of Philip Kitcher" (1996); "Machine Dreams: Economic Agent
as Cyborg" (1998); "What's Kuhn Got to Do with It?" (2001);
Re-engineering Scientific Credit in an Era of Globalised
Information Economy" (2001). Email: Philip.E.Mirowski.1@nd.edu.
Website: http://www.nd.edu/~economic/faculty/mirowski.html
Grant Ramsey (Ph.D., Duke University, 2007). Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Philosophy of biology, especially evolution and behavior. Recent articles: “Block Fitness” (2006); “The Fundamental Constraint on the Evolution of Culture” (2007); “What’s Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?” (with Robert Brandon, 2007); “Animal Innovation Defined and Operationalized” (with Meredith Bastian and Carel van Schaik, forthcoming). Email: grant.ramsey@nd.edu.
Kristin Shrader-Frechette (Ph.D. Notre Dame, 1972). O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy
and Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences. Specializing
in scientific modelling and methodological uncertainty (especially
in radiation physics and population biology), normative
ethics, and quantitative risk assessment, Shrader-Frechette
has done post-docs in biology, in hydrogeology, and in economics. She has served on many committees of the US National Academy
of Sciences and has had 20 years of consecutive research
funding from NSF. Her books and articles have been tranlated
into 11 languages. Books: Shrader-Frechette has authored
14 books, including Risk Analysis and Scientific Method
(1985), Risk and Rationality (1991), Method in
Ecology (1993), and Environmental Justice (2002).
Articles: Shrader-Frechette's approximately 300 articles
have appeared in journals such as Philosophy of Science,
Synthese, Biology and Philosophy, Journal of Philosophy,
and Ethics, as well as in scientific journals such
as Science, BioScience, Health Physics, Quarterly Review
of Biology, Oikos, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Recent articles include "Non-Indigenous Species and Ecological
Explanation" (2002), "Using a Thought Experiment to Clarify
a Radiobiological Controversy" (2001), and "Global Systems
Models and Ecological Understanding" (2000). Website: www.nd.edu/~kshrader
Phillip R. Sloan (Ph.D., Univ.
of California, San Diego, 1970). Professor in the Program
of Liberal Studies and Concurrent Professor of History.
History of biology, 1700-1990, Buffon studies, history of
natural history, evolution, recent human genetics. Books:
(coeditor) From Natural History to the History of Nature:
Readings from Buffon and his Critics (1981); introduction
and editing of: Richard Owen's Hunterian Lectures at
the Royal College of Surgeons, May-June 1837 (1992);
(editor and contributor) Controlling Our Destinies: Philosophical,
Historical and Ethical Perspectives on the Human Genome
Project (2000). Recent Articles and Chapters: "Organic
Molecules Revisited" (1992); "The Gaze of Natural History"(1995);
"Lamarck from an English-Language Perspective," (1997);
"Lamarck in Britain: Trans-forming Lamarck's Transformism"
(1997); "From Natural Law to Evolutionary Ethics in Enlightenment
French Natural History" (forthcoming); "Teleology and Form
Revisited" (forthcoming); "Natural History" (forthcoming).
Email: Phillip.R.Sloan.1@nd.edu
Thomas A. Stapleford (Ph.D.,
Harvard, 2003). Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies. History of the human sciences (especially economics and psycholoy), history of technology, science and religion. Book: Economic Statistics and the Pursuit of Order: The Consumer Price Index in Twentieth-Century America (in progress). Recent papers: "Market Visions: Economic Planning and the Study of Consumption in the New Deal” (forthcoming); “‘Housewife vs. Economist’: Gender, Class, and Domestic Economic Knowledge in Twentieth-Century America” (2004). E-mail: tstaplef@nd.edu
James Turner (Ph.D. Harvard,
1975). Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities and Professor of
History. British and American intellectual history, history
of universities and academic knowledge. Books: Language/Religion/Knowledge
(2003); Reckoning with the Beast: Animals, Pain, and
Humanity in the Victorian Mind (1980); Without God,
Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America (1985);
The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (1999);
(co-author) The Sacred and the Secular University
(2000); Recent Articles: "The German Model and the Graduate
School" (1993); "Religion et langage dans l'Amerique du
XIXeme sicle" (1993); "Le concept de science dans l'Amerique
du XIXe siecle" (2002). Email: Turner.36@nd.edu |
