PHILLIP REID SLOAN
PROFESSOR TENURED AT NOTRE DAME SINCE 1974
BORN: January 28, 1938 AT: Salt Lake City Utah
MARRIED: Sharon
CHILDREN: Laura, Mary, Kathleen, Sheila
Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, Calif., 1970. Specialty History and Philosophy of Science
M.A. Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, Calif., 1967
M.S. Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, 1964
B.S. Zoology /Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1960
(Diploma) Olympus High School, Holladay, Utah, 1956
1960-64 Graduate Research Assistant (Deep Sea Biology), Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1963 Expedition Biologist, Lusiad Expedition (International Indian Ocean Expedition).
1964-65 Advanced Research Technician (Plant Physiology), Institute of Marine Resources, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California
1966-68 Advanced Research Technician (Deep Sea Biology) U.S. Naval Undersea Laboratory San Diego, California, (part-time).
1969-72 Instructor, Department of Biomedical History, School of Medicine, University of Washington
1972-74 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical History, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1974-79 Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies/Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
1979-91 Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies/Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame
1991- Professor, Program of Liberal Studies/ Program in History and Philosophy of Science University of Notre Dame
1994-97 Director, Notre Dame Program in History and Philosophy of Science
1997-99 Director, Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, University of Notre Dame and Acting Director, Science, Technology and Values Program
1999- Director of Concentration Program in Science, Technology
and Values of the Reilly Center
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES
2000 Chair, Lumen Christi Working Group on Science and Theology
1999 Elected to Executive Council, History of Science Society
1997- Advisor, Committee on Science and Human Values, National Council
of Catholic Bishops
1996- Board Member, Lilly Fellows Program
1996 Elected Fellow, Section L of American Association for the Advancement
of Science
1996-98 Program Committee, 18th C. Society National Meeting 1998. Organizer
of History of Science Component
1998 Local Arrangments and Program Co-Chair, Lilly Fellows Notre Dame
Meeting October 1998
1998 Local Arrangements Chair, History and Philosophy of Science Working
Group Second International Meeting, Notre Dame March 98
1998 Organizer, Panel on Eugenics and the Holocaust for Notre Dame
Holocaust Conference, April 1998
1997-Board Member, Association for Core Texts and Curricula
1991-92 Bern Dibner Visiting Lecturer, History of Science Society (a
total of five lectures)
1989-90 President, Midwest History of Science Society
1988 Associate Program Chair, Midwest History of Science Society Meeting
198l-83 Chair, Standing Committee on Annual Meetings and Programs,
History of Science Society.
1986-88 History of Science Society National Committee on Apartheid
1985-89 National Committee for Speakers, History of Science Society
l987 Program Committee , History, Philosophy and Sociology of Biology
Conference.
l985 Program Chair and Co-organizer, History, Philosophy and Sociology
of Biology Conference, St. Mary’s.
1981-84 Executive Council, History of Science Society (Elected member)
1980 National Program Chair, History of Science Society Annual Meeting,
Toronto, Canada.
1996-99, 2000- College Council, Arts and Letters College
1996-97 Chair, Core Course Review Committee
1996-97 Elected Member, Arts and Letters Dean Search Committee
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS SUPERVISED
1999 Director, Ph.D. Dissertation, Michael Letteney, "George Cuvier,
Transcendental Naturalist"
1996 Director, Ph.D. Dissertation, Christopher Blum, "St. George Jackson
Mivart, Catholic Scientist", Program in History and Philosophy of Science
1997 Co-Director, Ph.D. Dissertation, Vladimir Jancovic, Program in
History and Philosophy of Science (completion Jan. 98)
In Progress Director, Ph.D. Dissertation, " Amy- England Beery, Program in History and Philosophy of Science (completion August. 98)
History of Biology 1600-1990; Specialties: Buffon studies, Evolution,
Darwinism, Science and Religion
I am currently doing an introductory book on Darwin for the Johns Hopkins Introduction to the History of Science series. My larger project is a book, The Teleological Ideal: German Biology in England in the Early Victorian Period.
1989 Fellow, Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values, Notre Dame
1990 Wellcome Trust Foundation Travel Grant
1994 Awarded Medal of the Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris for work in the history of biology
1995 Awarded Department of Energy Human Genome Division Conference Grant, $15,000
1996 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section L, for work in the history of biology.
2002 Elected President of the Association for Core Texts and Courses
(ACTC)
1981 John Lyon and P.R. Sloan (eds.) From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and his Critics (Collection of texts, commentary, and translations) (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press) Pp. 404. My contribution consisted of the main introductory essay (32 pp.), the basic determination of content, and translation, with introductions, to approximately one-third of the material from French and German sources.
1992 Richard Owen’s Hunterian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, May-June 1837 . Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary. Jointly published Chicago: University of Chicago Press and British Museum of Natural History, London. This work includes a 75 page introductory essay which for the first time locates Owen in his early historical and intellectual context, a critical transcription, with variant readings, of the handwritten manuscripts, with notes and commentary to each of the lectures.
2000 P.R. Sloan (editor and contributor) Controlling Our Destinies:
Historical, Philosophical,Ethical , andTheological Perspectives on the
Human Genome Project Proceedings of the Notre Dame Conference, October
5-8 1995. In the series Contributions from the Reilly Center for Science,
Technology and Values University of Notre Dame Press.
1973 "The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle," Proceedings of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies 3, 293?321.
1985a "Darwin’s Invertebrate Program, 1826-36: Preconditions for Transformism," in: D. Kohn (ed.), The Darwinian Heritage (Princeton University Press), pp. 71?120. (the main Bicentennial collection of contributions by Darwin scholars).
1985b "The Question of Natural Purpose," in: E. McMullin (ed.), Evolution and Creation ( Notre Dame University Press), pp. 121?44.
1987 "From Logical Universals to Historical Individuals: Buffon’s Conception of Biological Species," in: J. Roger and J.L. Fischer (eds.), Histoire du Concept d’esp*ce dans les sciences de la vie (Paris, l987), pp. 97?136.
1992a "Organic Molecules Revisited," in: J. Gayon (ed.) Buffon 88: Proceedings of the International Buffon Conference (Paris: Vrin, 1992), pp. 415-437.
1992b "Le Hypothetisme de Buffon," in: J. Gayon (ed.) Buffon 88: Proceedings of the International Buffon Conference (Paris: Vrin, 1992), pp. 207-222.
1995 "The Gaze of Natural History," in: C. Fox, R. Porter, and R. Wokler (eds.) Inventing Human Science (Berkeley: U. California Press, 1995) pp. 112-151
1995 "L’Histoire naturelle allemande au Coll*ge de chirurgie, histoire intellectuelle ou reconstruction sociale?" in: Nature, Histoire, Soci*t* ed. C. Blanckaert, J-L Fischer, R. Rey (Paris: Klincksieck, 1995), 179-96.
1997a "Lamarck From an English-Speaking Perspective" in: G. Laurent (ed.) Lamarck en histoire (Paris: CTHS, 1997)
1997b "The Transformism of Lamarck’s Transformism" in: G. Laurent (ed.) Lamarck en histoire (Paris: CTHS, 1997)
1997c "Le Museum de Paris vient ˆ Londres," in: R. Chartier and C. Blanckaert (eds.) Le Mus*um au Premier Siècle de son Histoire (commemorative volume of the Archives du Museum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris) (English Version available on request)
1999 "From Natural Law to Evolutionary Ethics in French Natural
History" in: M. Ruse and J. Maienschein (eds), Biology and
the Foundations of Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp.
52-83.
1965 Eppley, R.W. and P.R. Sloan, "Carbon Balance Experiments with Marine Phytoplankton," Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 22, 1083?97.
1966a Eppley, R.W. and P.R. Sloan, "Growth Rates of Marine Phytoplankton: Correlation with Light Absorption by Cell Chlorophyll a," Physiologia plantarum 19, 47?59.
1966b Sloan, P.R. and J.D.H. Strickland, "Heterotrophy of Four Marine Phytoplankters at Low Substrate Concentration: Journal of Phycology 2, 29?32.
1968 Pickwell, G.V., R.L. Capen, and P.R. Sloan, "Characterization of Nonmigratory Deep Scattering Layers off Southern California and Guadalupe Island, Mexico," 5th U.S. Navy Symposium on Military Oceanography Proceedings 1, 138?159.
1972 "John Locke, John Ray, and the Problem of the Natural System," Journal of the History of Biology 5, 1?53.
1976 "The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy," Isis 67, 356?75.
1977 "Descartes, the Sceptics, and the Rejection of Vitalism in Seventeenth Century Physiology," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 8, 1?28.
1978 "The Impact of Buffon’s Taxonomic Philosophy in German Biology," in: E.G. Forbes (ed.) Human Implications of Scientific Advance (Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the History of Science), (Edinburgh), 531?38.
1979 "Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species," British Journal for the History of Science 12, 109?153.
1986 "Darwin, Vital Matter and the Transformism of Species," Journal of the History of Biology 19, pp. 369?445.
2000. "Mach’s Phenomenalism and the British Reception of Mendelism," Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des sciences, 323 (December 2000), pp. 1069-79.
2001. "The Sense of Sublimity: Darwin on Nature and Divinity," Osiris 16 (2001): 251-269.
2001. "Preforming the Categories: Eighteenth-Century Generation
Theory and the Biological Roots of Kant's A Priori," Journal of the
History of Philosophy 40 (2002): 229-53.
NEW ARTICLES IN PRESS
2002? "The Formation of a Philosophical Naturalist," in: M.J. S. Hodge
and G. Radick (eds), Cambridge Companion to Darwin
2002? "It Might Be Called Reverence," in V. Hösle and C. Illies
(eds), M etaphysical Implications of Darwinism (volume under
review)
2002? "Whewell’s Philosophy of Discovery and The Archetype of the
Vertebrate Skeleton: The Role of German Philosophy of Science in
Richard Owen’s Biology," Annals of Science
2002? "Teleology and Form Revisited," in R. Burian and J. Gayon (eds),
Conceptions
de la science, hier, aujourd'hui et demain. Colloque d'hommage à
Marjorie Grene (Brussels: Ousia, in press).
2003 "Reflections on the Species Problem: What Marjorie Grene
Can Teach Us About a Perennial Issue," in Marjorie Grene Volume, The
Library of Living Philosophers (Chicago: Open Court, pp. 225-56.
ARTICLES IN REFERENCE WORKS
Published:
1981 Articles "Classification," "Natural Order," "Natural System,"
"Chain of Being," and "Subordination of Characters," Dictionary of the
History of Science, edited by Roy Porter and W. F. Bynum (London: Macmillan).
1990 Article "Natural History," in Companion to the History of Modern
Science, ed. R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie, M. J. S.
Hodge, (London: Routledge), 295?313. Translated into Spanish 2001.
1993 Articles "Nature," "Natural History," and "Buffon" for Dictionary
of Eighteenth Century Science ed. R. Porter (London)
1994 Article "Richard Owen," for Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Earth
Sciences
2002 "Buffon," Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
(Cambridge University Press),
Forthcoming: Article "Natural History" for Cambridge Encyclopedia
of Eighteenth Century
Philosophy , ed. Knud Haakensson
Forthcoming: Biographical article on Joseph Henry Green for New
Dictionary of National Biography
Forthcoming: Biographical article on William Clift for New
Dictionary of National Biography
Forthcoming "Unveiling the System of Nature" Enciclopedia
Italiana (in Italian: English version available on request)
Forthcoming "Species, Time and History," Encyclopedia Italiana
(in Italian: English version available on request)