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Faculty and Staff
Matthew Ashley
(Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993). Assistant
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
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Kathleen
Biddick
Ph.D.: University of Toronto, 1982
Title: Professor of history. Research Interests:
Medieval social and economic history, especially
archaeology, quantitative methods, and the
history of gender. Most recently, Professor
Biddick's research relates developments in
current feminist theory to medieval studies.
Publications:
The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval
Estate (California, 1989); Editor, Archaeological
Approaches to Medieval Europe (Medieval Institute,
1984); The Shock of Medievalism (Duke University
Press, 1998).
Email: Biddick.1@nd.edu
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Michael
J. Crowe
Michael J. Crowe, an historian of science, is
Professor Emeritus in the Program of Liberal
Studies and Concurrent Professor of History.
He was the founding director and first chair
of Notre Dame's Graduate Program in History
and Philosophy of Science. His special area of teaching
and research is the history of astronomy, physics,
and mathematics in the period from 1600 to 1900. He
holds B.A. (P.L.S.) and B.S. (science) degrees
from Notre Dame and a doctorate in history of
science from the University of Wisconsin. His
books include A History
of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea
of a Vectorial System (1967), which won a Jean
Scott Prize from La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
in Paris, The Extraterrestrial
Life Debate 1750-1900: The Idea of a Plurality
of Worlds from Kant to Lowell (1986), for
which a Japanese translation is in preparation,
Theories of the World from Ptolemy to Copernicus
(1990), 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), and A Calendar
of the Correspondence of Sir John F. W. Herschel
(1998). He has also authored over seventy articles,
booklets, and reviews. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow
and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he has been
awarded four major research grants from the
National Science Foundation. Courses he has offered
in the STV Program include History of Modern Astronomy
and Topics in the History of Modern Physical Science
1600-1900.
Email: Michael.J.Crowe.1@nd.edu
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Michael De
Paul
Associate Professor (Ph.D., Brown University)
Ethics, Epistemology
Books: Balance and Refinement:
Beyond Coherentism in Moral Inquiry, (1993).
Recent Articles:
"Two Conceptions of Coherence Methods
in Ethics," Mind, (1987); "The Problem of
the Criterion and Coherence Methods in Ethics,"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, (1988); "Naivete
and Corruption in Moral Inquiry," Philosophy
and Phenomenological Research, (1988); "Argument
and Perception: The Role of Literature in Moral
Inquiry," The Journal of Philosophy, (1988);
"Moral Statuses," Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
(1988); "The Highest Moral Knowledge and the Truth
Behind Moral Internalism," Southern Journal of Philosophy,
(1990).
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Christopher
Fox
(Ph.D., SUNY- Binghamton, 1978). Professor of
English and Associate Dean of the College
of Arts and Letters. 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
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Dennis P.
Doordan
Dennis Doordan is an architectural and design
historian on the faculty of the School of
Architecture and co-editor of Design Issues,
a journal devoted to the history, theory and
criticism of design. The study of design is
of potential interest to people interested in the
Science, Technology and Values curriculum because
the concept of design embraces more than an aesthetic
practice limited to the styling of industrial
objects. Design negotiates the intersection
of technology and cultural values. In the modern
era, design has been a powerful tool for shaping
the development of technology and articulating
the values of modern culture and modern designers
have acted as both facilitators and critics
of industrial technology. Doordan offers a
course, History of Modern Design: Form Values and
Technology which provides a historical perspective
on the relationship between design, technology, and
cultural values in the modern era.
Doordan's research interests include the history
of twentieth century architecture, design
theory, political themes in modern architecture
& design, and contemporary exhibition
design. He earned his M.A (1976) and Ph.D.(1983)
in Architectural History from Columbia University
and his B.A. (1973) in History from Stanford
University. He joined the Notre Dame faculty
in 1990.
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Christopher
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
Chris Hamlin's web
page
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Don A. Howard
Don Howard, ph.D., Boston University, 1979. Professor
of philosophy, philosophy of science, foundations
of physics, history of philosophy of science.
Books include: Einstein and the History
of General Relativity, co-editor with
John Stachel (1989), The Collected Papers
of Albert Einstein, vol. 3, The Swiss
Years: Writings, 1909-1912, contributing ed. with
Martin Klein et al. (1993). Recent articles include:
"Was Einstein Really a Realist?" (1993), "Einstein,
Kant, and the Origins of Logcal Empiricism"
(1994), "Relativity, Eindeutigkeit, and Monomorphism:
Rudolph Carnap and the Development of the Category
Concept in Formal Semantics" (1996), "A Peek
Beyond the Veil of Maya: Einstein, Schopenhauer,
and the Historical Background of the Conception
of Space as a Ground for the Individualism of
Physical Systems" (1997).
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Janet
Kourany
Education: Ph.D.,
Columbia
Areas of Interest: Philosophy
of Science, Gender and Science, Feminist
Philosophy
Books: The Gender of Science
(2002); Feminist Philosophies (1999, 1992);
Philosophy in a Feminist Voice (1998); Scientific
Knowledge (1998, 1987).
Recent Articles: "A Philosophy
of Science for the Twenty-First Century"
(forthcoming); "Socially Responsible Directions
for the Realism/Antirealism Controversy",
Feminist Epistemology: Evidence and Test
(2002); "A Successor to the Realism/Antirealism
Question", Philosophy of Science (2000); "What Does
Feminism Contribute to Philosophy of Science?" Controversies
in Feminism (2000); "A New Program for Philosophy
of Science, in Many Voices" Philosophy in a
Feminist Voice (1998).
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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
Edward Manier's home
page
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Vaughn 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
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Michael
Rae
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Interest: Metaphysics,
Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
Books:
World Without Design: The Ontological Consequences
of Naturalism (Oxford University Press, 2002); Material Constitution:
A Reader (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997)
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William Ramsey
(Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Diego,
1989). Associate Professor of Philosophy.
Cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology.
Books: (coeditor) Philosophy and Connectionist
Theory (1991); (co-editor) Rethinking Intuition
(forthcoming); Recent Articles: "Parallelism
and Functionalism" (1989); "Connectionism
and Three Levels of Nativism" (with Stephen Stich)
(1990); "Connectionism, Eliminativism and the Future
of Folk Psychology" (1990); "Where Does the Self-refutation
Objection Take Us?" (1991); "Prototypes and
Conceptual Analysis" (1992); "Connectionism
and the Philosophy of Mental Representation"
(1993); "Prototypes and Conceptual Analysis"
(1994); "Investigating Common Sense Psychology"
(1996); "Do Connectionist Representations
Earn Their Explanatory Keep?" (forthcoming).
Email: William.M.Ramsey.1@nd.edu
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Maura Ryan
PhD, Yale
Area of Specialization: MT
Maura A. Ryan is associate professor of Christian
ethics, with particular interests in medical
ethics and feminism.
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Kristin Shrader-Frechette
See Kristin Shrader-Frechette's home page
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Phillip
R. Sloan
Phil 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 fromBuffon and his Critics
(1981); Introduction and editing of: Richard
Owen's Hunterian Lectures at theRoyal College
of Surgeons, May-June 1837
(1992).Editor and contributor, Controlling
Our Destinies:Historical, Philosophical,Ethical, and
Theological Perspectives on the Human
Genome Project (forthcoming, University
of Notre Dame Press, 1999);
Recent Articles and Chapters:
"Organic Molecules Revisited" (1992); "The
Gaze of Natural History"(1995); "Lamarck from
an English-Language Perspective," (1997); "Lamarck
in Britain: Transforming Lamarck's Transformism"
(1997); "From Natural Law to Evolutionary
Ethics in Enlightenment French Natural History"
in: J. Maienschein and M. Ruse (eds), Biology
and the Foundation of Ethics (Cambridge, 1999);
"Darwin on Nature: Theology, Romanticism and Darwinian
Theory," (forthcoming, 2001, Osiris), "Teleology
and Form Revisited" (forthcoming); "Natural
History" (forthcoming).
Email: Phillip.R.Sloan.1@nd.edu.
Web page: http://www.nd.edu/~psloan
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Andrew Weigart
Professor of Sociology
Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 1968
Professor Weigert's areas of interest include
social psychology, religion, theory, environment, and modern identity. He
has authored or co-authored over 50 scholarly pieces and eight books, the
most recent being Self, Society, and Natural Environment. Current
initiatives are in teaching about environment and modern identity. Weigert
is the subject of a biographical entry in the "Encyclopedia of Religion
and Society" and is listed in various "Who's Who." He received the 2002
College of Arts and Letters Sheedy Award for Undergraduate Teaching and
two Kaneb undergraduate teaching awards (multiple recipients).
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Robert J.
Wolosin
Bob Wolosin is an Adjunct Associate Professor
who teaches the Cultural Aspects of Clinical
Medicine course, STV 454. His former "regular"
job was at the Family Practice Residency Program
of Memorial Hospital, where he was Director
of Behavioral Science. This position gave him
an "insider's" view of the medical world, which
he still uses to inform and enhance his teaching at
Notre Dame.
Trained as a social psychologist at the University
of Michigan, Bob's research interests are
in the determinants of physicians' identities
and in the application of social psychological
principles to medical practice. Lately, he
has become interested in Sports Psychology.
Bob is on the Board of Directors of La Casa de
Amistad and the St. Joseph County Minority
Health Coalition. He enjoys bicycling, hiking,
and visits to his grandchildren in New Hampshire.
Bob is an avid amateur potter.
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