Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Research interests: History of Technology, specializing in History of Aerospace Technology. Recent Publications
Professor, Department of History and Institute for Physical Science and Technology; D. Phil., Oxford University.
Research interests: History of Modern Physical Sciences, especially 19th and 20th Century Astrophysics and Geophysics; use of historical evidence to test philosophical theses about science. Recent Publications
Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of London.
Research interests: Foundations of Physics, especially Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Logic; Epistemological and Methodological Issues in the Natural Sciences. Recent Publications
Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley.
Research interests: Philosophy of Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Computer Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience. Recent Publications
Professor of Philosophy; Affiliate Professor of History; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research interests: History and Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Reasoning in Discovery, Interactions of Scientific Fields, Relations between Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence. Recent Publications
Professor of History; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
Research interests: History of Technology; History of Engineering; History of Materials; Science, Technology, and Society. Recent Publications
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ph. D., Harvard University.
Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Language, Logic & Metalogic. Recent Publications
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario. Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics (especially Quantum Mechanics), Logic, Science and Religion. Recent Publications
Assistant Professor of History; Ph.D., Brandeis University.
Research Interests: U.S. business, technology, and economic history. Recent Publications
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park, and in Nursing at the University of Maryland at Baltimore; Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Research interests: Philosophy of Science, History of the Philosophy of science, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Science and Religion. Recent Publications
Professor (part-time) of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of Freiburg.
Research interests: Galileo; scientific methodology; medieval and Renaissance science; Scientific Revolution. Recent Publications
Assistant Professor of History; PhD, Stanford University.
Research interests: History of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Psychiatry in Modern Germany, Modern German Cultural History. Recent Publications
Professor of Aerospace Engineering.
Research interests: History of Technology, specializing in History of Aerospace Technology.
Recent publications:
A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
"Langley's Aeronautical Research: A Modern Critique and Reassessment," AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, March 1997, pp. 409-419.
"Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics with Applications", McGraw-Hill (1995)
"Waveriders." In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 1994, pages 437-439.
"Numerical Study of the Effects of Wall Catalysis on Shock Wave/Boundary-Layer Interaction," AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan.-March 1994, pp. 40-47 (by Grumet, Anderson, and Lewis).
"Reference Temperature Method and Reynolds Analogy for Chemically Reacting Nonequilibrium Flowfields," AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan.-March 1994, pp.190-193 (by Debrestian and Anderson).
"The Uniform Boundary Algorithm for Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows," Proceedings of the Parallel CFD '92 (MIT Press 1993) pp.395-406 (by Yvette Weber, James Weber, John Anderson, and Elaine Oran).
Professor, Department of History and Institute for Physical Science and Technology; D. Phil., Oxford University.
Research interests: History of Modern Phvsical Sciences. especially 19th and 20th Century Astrophysics and Geophysics; use of historical evidence to test philosophical theses about science.
Recent publications:
"Dynamics of Theory Change in the Social Sciences: Relative Deprivation and Collective Violence," Journal of Conflict Resolution 40 (1996), 523-545.
"The Reception of Mendeleev's Periodic Law in America and Britain," Isis 87 (1996), 595-628.
History of Modern Planetary Physics, 3 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
"Dynamics of Theory Change in Science: The Role of Predictions," PSA 1994, vol. 2 (Philosophy of Science Association), 1995.
Origin of the Solar System: Soviet Research 1925-1991, Levin and Brush (eds.), (AIP Press, 1995).
"Prediction and Theory Evaluation: Cosmic Microwaves and the Revival of the Big Bang," Perspectives on Science 1 (1993), 565-602.
"Prediction and Theory Evaluation: Subatomic Particles," Rivista di Storia della Scienza, Ser. II, 1, no. 2 (1993): 47-152.
Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of London.
Research interests: Foundations of Physics, especially Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Logic; Epistemological and Methodological Issues in the Natural Sciences.
Recent publications:
Interpreting the Quantum World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
"Schrodinger's Cat and Other Entanglements of Quantum Mechanics," in J. Earman and J. Norton (eds.), The Cosmos of Science, University of Pittsburgh Series in Philosophy of Science (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997).
"The Bare Theory Has No Clothes," in G. Hellman and R. Healey (eds.), Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox, Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science Vol. 17 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). (Co-authored with R. Clifton and B. Monton.)
"A Uniqueness Theorem for Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics 26, 181-219 (1996). (Co-authored with R. Clifton.)
"Schutte's Tautology and the Kochen-Specker Theorem," Foundations of Physics 26, 787-806 (1996). Festschrift issue for Max Jammer's 80th birthday.
"Modal Interpretations and Bohmian Mechanics," in J. Cushing, A. Fine, and S. Goldstein (eds.), Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory: An Appraisal (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996), pp. 331-341.
"Complementarity and the Orthodox (Dirac-von Neumann) Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics," in R. Clifton (ed.), Perspectives on Quantum Reality: Non-Relativistic, Relativistic, and Field-Theoretic, University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995), pp. 211-226.
"Testing Models of Cognition Through the Analysis of Brain-Damaged Performance," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45, 837 -855 (1994).
Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Research interests: Philosophy of Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Computer Science, Philosophy of Neuroscience.
Recent publications:
"Computational Complexity and the Universal acceptance of Logic," reprinted in Naturalizing Epistemology, H. Kormblith, ed. (MIT Press, 1994).
"Component Placement Optimization in the Brain," Journal of Neuroscience, 14 (1994) 2418-2427.
"Philosophy and Computational Neuroanatomy," Philosophical Studies, 73 (1994) 89-107.
"Rationality," invited article, A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, S. Guttenplan, ed. (Blackwells, 1994).
"Local Optimization of Neuron Arbors," Biological Cybernetics 66 (1992), 503-510.
Minimal Rationality (paperback edition, 1990).
"The Bounded Brain: Toward Quantitative Neuroanatomy," Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2 (1990) 58-60.
Professor of Philosophy; Affiliate Professor of History; Ph.D., University of Chicago.
Research interests: History and Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Reasoning in Discovery, Interactions of Scientific Fields, Relations between Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Recent publications:
"Generalizations in Biology," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 27 (1996): 409-419.
"Exemplars, Abstractions, and Anomalies: Representations and Theory Change in Mendelian and Molecular Genetics," in Gereon Wolters and James Lennox (eds.) Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences: The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995, pp. 137-158.
"Reasoning Strategies in Molecular Biology: Abstractions, Scans and Anomalies," with Michael Cook, in D. Hull, M. Forbes and R.M. Burian (eds.) PSA 1994, v. 2, East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association, pp. 179-191.
"Strategies for Anomaly Resolution." In Cognitive Models of Science, ed. by R. N. Giere, pp. 251-273. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992).
"Protein Sequencing Experiment Planning Using Analogy," co-authored with Brian Kettler, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, ed. L. Hunter, et al. (AAAI Press, 1993), pp. 216-224.
Theory Change in Science: Strategies from Mendelian Genetics (Oxford Univ. Press, 1991).
"Diagnosing and Fixing Faults in Theories," in Computational Models of Scientific Discovery and Theory Formation, ed. J. Shrager and P. Langley (1990), 319-346.
Professor of History; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.
Research interests: History of Technology; History of Engineering; History of Materials; Science, Technology, and Society.
Recent publications:
"The Accidental Inventor," Discover, 17, 10 (October 1996), pp. 58-69.
"Scarcity and Promise: Materials and American Domestic Culture During World War II," in Donald Albrecht (ed.), World War II and the American Dream, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995)
"Snapshot of a Discipline," Technology and Culture 36, 2 (1995) [guest editor's introduction]
"Defining Chemistry: Origins of the Heroic Chemist," in Seymour Mauskopf and Arnold Thackray (eds.), Chemistry in the Modern World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994)
Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty (W.W Norton Co., 1994).
"Defining Chemistry: Origins of the Heroic Chemist," In Chemistry in the Modern World, ed. Seymour Mauskopf and Arnold Thackray, (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) pp. 216-233.
"Some Matters of Substance," In Learning from Things: Working Papers on Material Culture eds. W.David Kingery & Steven Lubar, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993) pp. 41-50.
"The History of the Zipper?" American Heritage of Invention & Technology, (Summer 1994), pp. 8-16..
"Perspiration in Perspective: Changing Perceptions of Genius and Expertise in American Invention." In Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology, eds. by R. J. Weber and D. N. Perkins, pp. 11-29. (Oxford University Press, 1992).
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ph. D., Harvard University.
Research interests: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Language, Logic & Metalogic.
Recent publications:
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach, Cambridge: Blackwell (1997).
"Towards a Projectivist Account of Conscious Experience," Ferdinand-Schoningh-Verlag (1996), pp. 123-142.
"Dennett's Unrealistic Psychology," Philosophical Topics 22 1-2, (1996), pp. 259-89.
"A Not "Merely Empirical" Argument for the Language of Thought," Philosophical Perspectives, 9 ("AI, Connectionism, and Philosophical Psychology"), J. Tomberlin (ed.) 1995, pp. 201-222.
"Keeping Meaning More in Mind," Intellectica, 1996.
"Why Think Analyses Are On-Line?" commentary on Godman, A., "The Psychology of Folk Psychology," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1993.
Associate Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario.
Research Interests: Philosophy of Physics (especially Quantum Mechanics), Logic, Science and Religion.
Recent publications:
"The Quantum World?" Philosophy, 3rd edition, D. Kolak and R. Martin (eds.), Wadsworth (1995).
"The Metaphysics of Contextualism: Cut and Paste with Hilbert Spaces," PSA 1992 11, pp. 91-103 (1993).
"On Arthur Fine's Solution to the Measurement Problem," Foundations of Physics Letters 5, 2, (1992).
"Critical Study of the Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Philosophical Consequences of Quantum Theory," Synthese (1991)
"Quantum Mechanics, Mind and Self," Self and Identity (1990); "Jarrett's Locality Condition and Causal paradox," PSA 1988, 318-325.
Assistant Professor of History; Ph.D., Brandeis University.
Research Interests: U.S. business, technology, and economic history.
Recent publications:
The Engine That Could: Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company, 1919-1994,co-authored with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Boston: Harvard Business School Press (forthcoming in December 1997).
"Options and Gopherholes: Reconsidering Choice in the Technology-Rich History Classroom," in Dennis Trinkle, ed., History in the Electromic Age (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, forthcoming in 1997).
"Distant Proximity: Writing the History of American Business since 1945," Business and Economic History second series, 26 (Fall 1997).
"How the West Was Wired," Inc. Technology (June 1997)
"Technological Determinism and the Firm," BUsiness and Economics History Second series, 22 (1993).
Labors of a Modern Hercules: The Evolution of a Chemical Company,co-authored with Davis Dyer, Boston:Harvard Business School Press (1990).
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park, and in Nursing at the University of Maryland at Baltimore; Ph.D., University of Michigan.
Research interests: Philosophy of Science, History of the Philosophy of science, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Science and Religion.
Recent publications:
"The Structure of a Scientific Paper," Philosophy of Science, (forthcoming).
"Evaluation of Models for Interaction between Metaphysical Beliefs and the Natural Sciences: The Post Weltanschauungen Era," in J. van der Meer (ed.) Facets of Faith and Science, vol. 1: Historiography and Models of Interaction, Lanham, MD: University Press of America (1996).
"Scientific Theories," in Donald Brochert (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, New York: MacMillan Refens USA, (1996).
"Explaining Homosexuality: Philosophical Issues, and Who Cares Anyhow?" in T. Murphy (ed.), Gay Ethics: Controversies in Civil Rights, Outing, and Sexual Science, New York: Hayworth Press, 1994.
"Becoming Michael." Philosophers Who Believe, ed. K. J. Clark. pp. 137-178 (Intervarsity Press, 1993).
"Paradigms, Socialization, and Nursing Science", In the Proceedings of the 1992 Annual Nursing Doctoral Forum (University of Maryland at Baltimore, 1993), pp. 17-34.
"Credentialling Scientific Claims", Perspectives on Science, 1(1993):153-203.
The Semantic Conception of Theories and Scientific Realism, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1989).
Professor (Adjunct) of Philosophy; Ph.D., University of Freiburg.
Research interests: Galileo; scientific methodology; medieval and Renaissance science; Scientific Revolution.
Recent publications:
The Modeling of Nature: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Nature in Synthesis, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, (1996).
Albertus Magnus, Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, (1996).
Galileo's Logical Treatisees: A Translation with Notes and Commentary of His Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 138, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, (1992).
"Late Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Manuscripts Relating to "Galileo's Early Notebooks," Revista Portuguesa do Filosofia 51 (1995), [22 pp.].
Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof. The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 137. Dordrecht-Boston_London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992, xxiii + 230 pp.
"Aquinas's Legacy on Individuation, Cognitation, and Hominization." In Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy, ed. David Gallagher. Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 28. (The Catholic University of America Press, 1994) pp. 173-193.
Assistant Professor of History; PhD, Stanford University.
Research interests: History of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Psychiatry in Modern Germany, Modern German Cultural History.
Recent publications:
"The Medicalization of Criminal Law Reform in Imperial Germany," in Institutions of Confinement, N. Finzsch and R. Juette (eds.), Cambridge University Press (1996).
Contributor, sections on "War and Revolution, 1914-1919" and "Weimar Republic," in AHA Guide to Historical Literature, 3rd. edition, New York: Oxford University Press, (1995).
Review of The German Bourgeoisie by David Blackbourn and Richard Evans (eds.), New York: Routledge, (1991), in Journal of Social History 27 (1993).