Graduate Student
Research Interests
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, with particular attention to the development and transmission of scientific methodology. I focus primarily on comparative psychology, with a secondary interest in genetics.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History and philosophy of psychology.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History of biology, organism-centered history; evolutionary and organismal biology, taxonomy, museum collections; microbiology; agriculture, pastoralism, and domestication; geography and environmental history.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Philosophy of physics (modern physics); general history and philosophy of science; early modern philosophy and history
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History of alchemy and chemistry in medieval Islam.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History and Philosophy of Measurement; Clinical Measurement Methodology.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Biomedical Scientists: James Blundell, Claude Bernard, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Wilhelm Röntgen, Leonor Michaelis. Ancient to Modern history of Mathematics, featuring mathematicians such as: Thales, Pythagoras, Al-Khwarizmi, Rene Descartes, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernard Riemann, and David Hilbert.
Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Physicists: Max Planck, Marie and Pierre Curie, Niels Bohr, and Richard Feynman. Polymaths throughout history: Aristotle, Leibniz, Da Vinci, Russell.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History of medicine; philosophy of biology.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Philosophy of science and history of philosophy of science.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Scientific discovery; history of philosophy of science; history of logic and computation; computational history and digital humanities; Victorian studies.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Climate science; climate denialism; science and values.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History and philosophy of science education; laboratory classes in 19th-century American universities; history of physics, astronomy, and astrobiology.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
19th-early 20th century German philosophy, especially the Neo-Kantian Heinrich Rickert and his The Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science (1896); the Ignorabimus controversy; history/pre-history of analytic philosophy; clinical phenomenology; ontological commitment; post-Civil War preconditions for rise of analytic philosophy in America; scientism.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
History of philosophy, history of science, thermodynamic law, information theory, thermodynamic interpretations of emergence, self-organization, evolution, biology, ecology, economics.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
The relation between history and philosophy of science, history of philosophy of science, history and philosophy of life sciences, the reception of darwinism in Greece, eugenics and heredity.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Philosophy of science in general.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Simulation models of cognition and foraging, the philosophical implications of simulation modeling generally, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Early modern botany; scientific images; early modern British science; institutional history.
Graduate Student
Research Interests
General philosophy of science; philosophy of special sciences (machine learning, cognitive science, astronomy, and historical sciences); intellectual history of science (19th-century natural philosophy).
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Philosophy of the cognitive and biological sciences especially issues in psychiatry and medicine.
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