Ann-Sophie Barwich

Associate Professor in Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

2025/2026 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

• abarwich@iu.edu
• Ballantine Hall 917

Research Interests
cognition & neuroscience, empirical philosophy, methodology, contemporary life sciences

Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Provost Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Director of Graduate Studies

• dbmeli@iu.edu
• (812) 855-8746
• Ballantine Hall 919

Research Interests
math; medicine

Jordi Cat

Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• jcat@iu.edu
• (812) 855-8806
• Ballantine Hall 922

Research Interests
physics; unity of science; history of philosophy of science; visual and material culture and cognition; application of mathematics

Luis H. Favela

Associate Professor in Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• lhfavela@iu.edu
• 812-844-3622
• Ballantine Hall 920

Research Interests
Philosophical: History and philosophy of science (esp. cognitive, neural, and psychological sciences); philosophy of mind; ethics (esp. applied, inc. neuroethics, computer and information ethics). Empirical: Dynamical systems theory: Data analyses (esp. nonlinear, e.g., fractal) and modeling (esp. decision-making; neuronal dynamics); Perception-action: Affordances; sensory substitution and augmentation.

Sander Gliboff

Associate Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• sgliboff@iu.edu
• (812) 856-7417
• Ballantine Hall 918

Research Interests
history of biology; science in modern Germany and Austria; heredity and evolution

Amit Hagar

Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• hagara@iu.edu
• (812) 855-2541
• Ballantine Hall 906

Research Interests
modern physics; biophysical modeling of cancer; exercise oncology and methodological issues in biomedical research

William Newman

Currently on Sabbatical

Distinguished Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Ruth N. Halls Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• wnewman@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3071
• Ballantine Hall 907

Research Interests
chemistry; alchemy; medieval and early modern natural philosophy

Leah Savion

Faculty, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• lsavion@iu.edu
• (812) 855-4705
• Ballantine Hall 921

Research Interests
mathematical logic; cognitive science; cognitive traps in law, business, and medicine

Jutta Schickore

Chair, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Ruth N. Halls Professor, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• jschicko@iu.edu
• (812) 855-9728
• Ballantine Hall 903

Research Interests
life sciences; scientific practice; history of philosophy of science

Andrea Sullivan-Clarke

Associate Professor in Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

• sulliand@iu.edu
• Ballantine Hall 905

Research Interests
Scientific Practice, Analogical Reasoning and Conceptual Metaphor, Feminist Critiques of Science, Indigenous Worldviews