HPSC Alumni

Ph.D. degree in HPSC

2023
Arnet, Evan
Current Position: Associate Research Development Specialist, Proposal Development Services, Indiana University
Advisor: Jutta Schickore & Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Entrenchment and Reflection in Science: Three Studies from Animal Behavior Research

Li, Dan
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd & Alessandro Flammini
Dissertation Title: Frontiers in Climate Science: Inquiries into Methods and Data

Jackson, Becca
Current Position: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany
Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: Measuring “Well”: Clinical Measuring Practices and Philosophy of Measurement

Slattery, Justin
Advisor: Amit Hagar & Peter Todd
Dissertation Title: Minimal Models of Animal Movement and Decision-making during Foraging

Ruangsakul, Siwarak (Eric) 
Advisor: Amit Hagar 
Dissertation Title: The Quest for Autonomous Scientific Discovery with Artificial Scientists

2022
Reynolds, Sarah J.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Earth-Space Science, University of Indianapolis
Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: Engaging Experiments: U.S. Science Education Before the Laboratory Method

Hu, Xiaoqian (Lara)
Current Position: Lecturer, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Advisor: Amit Hagar
Dissertation Title: The Principle of the Identity of Indiscernible (PII), Determinism, and Locality: An Example of Organizing Principles

O'Loughlin, Ryan
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at Queens College (CUNY), School of Social Sciences
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: The Role of Model Intercomparisons in Climate Science

2021
Allen, Meagan
Current Position: Cain Postdoctoral Fellow, Science History Institute
Advisor: William R. Newman
Dissertation Title: Roger Bacon's Medical Alchemy: Medieval Pharmacology and the Prolongatio Vitae 

2020
Bamballi, Nicolas
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: The Arabic Version of Galen's De elementis ex Hippocratis sententia 1-5

2020
Grauvogel, Kate
Current Position: Proposal Development Specialist, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI
Advisor: Sander Gliboff, Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: A Gendered History of Pathology: Reproduction, Hormones, and Blood Clots, 1784 -1969

2020
Mirza, Ali
Advisor: Colin Allen, Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Living in Stone: The History and Philosophy of Behavior, Morphology, and Ecology in the Fossil Record

2020
Zappettini, Shane
Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: The Ethological Constitution of The Embodied Mind

2019
ChoGlueck, Chris
Current Position: Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Drug Facts and Value-laden Labels: Science, Regulation, and Reproductive Health at the FDA

2018
Best, Nicholas
Advisor: Jordi Cat
Dissertation Title: The Chemical Revolution as Scientific, Political and Semantic Revolution

2017
Inglehart, Ashley
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries

2015
Coko, Klodian
Current Position: Professor of Philosophy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: The Structure and Epistemological Implications of Triangulations in Empirical Science

2015
Hyslop, Scott
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: The Mathematics of Collision and the Collision of Mathematics in the 17th Century

2014
Baker, Tawrin
Current Position: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Color Cosmos Oculus: Vision, Color, and the Eye in Jacopo Zabarella and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Acquapendente

2014
Friesen, Stephen
Advisors: Jordi Cat and Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: Evolution, Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology: A Study of Place

2014
Klein, Joel
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Chymical Medicine, Corpuscularism and Controversy: A Study of Daniel Sennert's Works and Letters

2014
Otsuka, Jun
Current Position: Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Kobe University, Japan
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: The Causal Structure of Evolutionary Theory

2013
Shotwell, Allen R.
Current Position: Academic Dean/Professor, Ivy Tech Community College
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: The Revival of Anatomical Practices and Techniques in the Renaissance

2012
Ragland, Evan
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Notre Dame
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: Experimenting with Chemical Bodies: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in the Long History of Reinier de Graaf’s Experiments on Digestion, from Harvey to Bernard

2011
Ekholm, Karin
Current Position: Assistant Professor at St. Johns, Annapolis, MD
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore, and their Contemporaries

2011
Fiss, Andrew
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech
Advisor: Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Professing Mathematics: Science and Education in Nineteenth-Century America

2011
Glass, Larry
Current Position: Independent Scholar – Consulting on Newton Project
Advisor: Amit Hagar
Dissertation Title: Constructing the Principles: Method and Metaphysics in the Process of Theoretical Physics

2011
Goodrich, Grant
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at the Citadel
Advisor: Colin Allen
Dissertation Title: On The Attribution of Concepts to Animals

2011
Pastorino, Cesare
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte, Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Weighing Experience: Francis Bacon, The Inventions Of The Mechanical Arts, and The Emergence Of Modern Experiment

2010
Karaca, Koray
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Advisor: Jordi Cat
Dissertation Title: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of the Higher Dimensional Unification Program in Physics

2010
Klein, Rebecca Willis
Current Position: Independent Scholar – Kelly School of Business, IUB
Advisor: Dror Wahrman
Dissertation Title: Amid Holy sites and Ancient Marvels: Science and Empire in the Near East, c. 1650-1790

2010
Valles, Sean
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Explaining the Evolution of Common Genetic Disease

2008
Hood, Brian
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of West Florida
Advisor: Colin Allen
Dissertation Title: Latent Variable Realism in Psychometrics

2007
Fagan, Melinda
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Rice University
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Objectivity in practice: integrative social epistemology of scientific inquiry

2006
Lee, Jeongmin (Jude)
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Advisor: Jordi Cat
Dissertation Title: Bohr vs. Bohm: Interpreting Quantum Theory through the Philosophical Tradition

2005
Abidin, Zainal
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Science and Metaphysics: A Methodological Investigation

2005
Schloegel, Judith
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Advisor: Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Intimate Biology: Herbert Spencer Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn and the Career of American Protozoan Genetics

2005
Adamson, Matthew
Current Position: Assistant Professor, McDaniel College, Budapest; Editorial Assistant, The Hungarian Quarterly, Budapest
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: Commissariat of the Atom: The Expansion of the French Nuclear Complex, 1945–1960

2004
Murray, Narisara
Current Position: Independent Scholar in Cambodia
Advisor: Thomas Gieryn
Dissertation Title: Lives of the Zoo: Charismatic Animals in the Social Worlds of the Zoological Gardens of London 1850-1897

2003
Winther, Rasmus
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Formal Biology and Compositional Biology as Two Kinds of Biological Theorizing

2003
Howard, Nicole
Current Position: Associate Professor, Eastern Oregon University
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: Christiaan Huygens: The Construction of Texts and Audiences

2003
Domski, Mary
Current Position: Professor, University of New Mexico
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Geometry and Experimental Method in Locke, Newton and Kant

2003
Daniel, Dane
Current Position: Associate Professor, Wright State University
Advisor: William R. Newman
Dissertation Title: Paracelsus' Astronomia Magna (1537/38): Bible-Based Science and the Religious Roots of the Scientific Revolution

2002
Borrello, Mark
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards and the History of Group Selection Theory

2002
Medynski, Thomas
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ivy Tech Community College, Madison, IN
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Zeeman Topologies and the Causal Theory of Spacetime

2002
Mylott, Anne
Current Position: Independent Scholar – Monroe Hospital. Bloomington, IN
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The Roots of Cell Theory in Sap, Spores, and Schleiden

2002
Tanona, Scott
Current Position: Associate Professor, Kansas State University
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: From Correspondence to Complementarity: The Emergence of Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

2002
Rutkin, Darrel H.
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Advisor: William R. Newman
Dissertation Title: Astrology, Natural Philosophy and the History of Science, c. 1250-1700: Studies Toward an Interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem

2002
Mattingly, James
Current Position: Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Semiclassical Gravitation Theory: Why Transitional Scientific Theories are Theories

2001
Warwick, Walter
Current Position: Principal Systems Analyst, Micro Analysis & Design, Alion Science and Technology, Boulder, CO
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: The Conceptual Development of Nondeterminism in Theoretical Computer Science

2001
Powers, John C.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Advisor: Richard Sorrenson
Dissertation Title: Herman Boerhaave and the Pedagogical Reform of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

2000
Hume, Brad D.
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Xavier University
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: The Naturalization of Humanity In America, 1776-1861

2000
Burton, Dan
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Northern Alabama
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Nicole Oresme's On Seeing the Stars (De Visione Stellarum): A Critical Edition of Oresme's Treatise on Optics and Atmospheric Refraction, with an Introduction, Commentary, and English Translation

2000
Pojman, Paul
Deceased
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Ernst Mach's Biological Theory of Knowledge

2000
Tuttle, Julianne
Current Position: Vice President, Wyckoff NCP Inc
Advisor: Richard Sorrenson
Dissertation Title: Humphry Davy: A Case Study in Science and Romanticism

1999
Twardy, Charles
Current Position: Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Causation, Causal Perception, and Conservation Laws

1999
Musselman, Elizabeth Green
Current Position: Associate Professor, Southwestern University
Advisor: Richard Sorrenson
Dissertation Title: Persistence of Sight: Problems of Idiosyncratic Vision and Knowledge in British Natural Philosophy, 1780-1860

1999
Marché, Jordan D. II
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: Theaters of Time and Space: The American Planetarium Community, 1930-1970

1999
Winsberg, Eric
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Simulation and the Philosophy of Science: Computationally Intensive Studies of Complex Physical Systems

1998
Kalthoff, Mark Alan
Current Position: Associate Professor, Hillsdale College
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The New Evangelical Engagement with Science: The American Scientific Affiliation, Origin to 1963

1998
Snyder, Karen D.
Current Position: Attending Medical School in Texas
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: The Interpretation of the Factorizability Condition of Bell's Theorem: Implications for Locality and Causality in Quantum Mechanics

1997
Goodrum, Matthew
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, VA Polytec Inst & St Univ
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The British Sea-Side Studies, 1820–1860: Marine Invertebrates, the Practice of Natural History, and the Depiction of Life in the Sea

1997
Berger, Ruth
Current Position: New York
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: The Dynamics of Explanation: Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Understanding

1997
Tammone, William
Current Position: Dean of Academic Services, Montcalm Comm. College
Advisor: Ann Carmichael
Dissertation Title: Science in Ferment: The Doctrine of Fermentation in Seventeenth-Century British Science and Medicine

1997
Warren, Mary "Wini" Edwina
Deceased
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Hearts and Minds: Black Women Scientists in the United States, 1900-1960

1996
Ichiye, Keiko
Current Position: Attorney, Baker Botts, LLP, Texas
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: The Hole Argument of the Substantivalism-Relationism Debate

1995
Dreger, Alice Domurat
Current Position: Professor, Northwestern University Medical School
Advisors: Churchill/Carmichael
Dissertation Title: Doubtful Sex: Cases and Concepts of Hermaphroditism in France and Britain, 1868–1915

1995
Rader, Karen A.
Current Position: Director, STS program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: Making Mice: C.C. Little, the Jackson Laboratory, and the Standardization of Mus Musculus for Research

1994
Lu, Yan
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Founding of Modern Science as a Method

1994
Grandy, David
Current Position: Brigham Young University
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Leo Szilard: Science as a Mode of Being

1994
Voelkel, James R.
Current Position: Curator of Rare Books, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Development and Reception of Kepler's Physical Astronomy 1593-1609

1993
Ramberg, Peter
Current Position: Professor, Truman State University
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Theory and Methodology in the Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-1900

1993
McKinney, William J.
Current Position: President, Valdosta State University, Georgia
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Plausibility and Experiment: Investigations in the Context of Pursuit

1992
Korb, Kevin B.
Current Position: Reader, Monash University, Australia
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: A Pragmatic Bayesian Platform for Automating Scientific Induction

1992
Hooper, Wallace Edd
Current Position: American Indian Studies & Research Inst., Indiana University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Galileo and the Problems of Motion

1992
Giunti, Marco
Current Position: Associate Professor, Italy
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: Computers, Dynamical Systems, Phenomena, and the Mind

1990
Barnes, Eric C
Current Position: Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Beyond Truthlikeness: Toward a Linguistically Invariant Theory of Scientific Progress

1990
Pessoa, Osvaldo Jr.
Current Position: Professor, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Measurement in Quantum Physics: Experimental and Formal Approaches

1990
Meyer, Eric R.
Current Position: Boulder, CO
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Quantitative Methods in the Early Scientific Revolution the Quest for Mathematical Laws of Nature C. 1600

1990
Oberdan, Thomas
Current Position: Clemson University
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Protocols, Truth and Convention

1989
McMullen, Emerson T.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: A Barren Virgin? Teleology in the Scientific Revolution

1989
Lewis, Joia A.
Current Position: Minnesota
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Positivism and Realism in the Writings of Moritz Schlick

1989
Robinson, Don
Current Position: St. Thomas, Canada
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Stochastic Hidden Variables Theories

1987
Pecchioni, Frank
Current Position: Professor, Jefferson Community College, Kentucky
Advisor: Nino Cocchiarella
Dissertation Title: Meta-Language and Object Calculus: A Conceptual Framework for Carnap's Logical Syntax

1987
Martinez, Sergio
Current Position: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: The Projection Postulate in the Conceptual Structure of Quantum Mechanics

1987
Steinhoff, Gordon
Current Position: Associate Professor, Utah State University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Internal Realism and Transcendental Idealism: A Comparison of the Philosophies of Putnam and Kant

1986
Irzik, Gürol
Current Position: Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Causal Modeling in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Philosophy

1986
Day, Carol A.
Current Position: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Jean Buridan on the Classification of the Sciences

1986
Richmond, Marsha L.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Wayne State University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Richard Goldschmidt and Sex Determination: The Growth of German Genetics, 1900–1935

1985
Funk, Gerald
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Newton's Clients: Patronage in Science

1985
Millen, Ronny S.
Current Position: University of Minnesota
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Scholastic Foundations of the Scientific Revolution

1985
Waters, C. Kenneth
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Models of Natural Selection: From Darwin to Dawkins

1984
Sobol, Peter G.
Current Position: Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: John Buridan on the Soul and Sensation

1984
Tatarewicz, Joseph N.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of MD, Baltimore County
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: "Where are the People Who Know What They are Doing?" Space Technology and Planetary Astronomy, 1958–1975

1984
Davis, Edward Bradford
Current Position: Professor, Messiah College
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science: The Impact of Voluntaristic Theology on Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy

1983
Guerrini, Anita
Current Position: Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Newtonian Matter Theory, Chemistry, and Medicine, 1690–1713

1982
Finsen, Susan Mills Isen
Current Position: California State University-San Bernadino
Advisor: J. Alberto Coffa
Dissertation Title: Rule-Governed Behavior and the Foundations of Cognitive Theories

1982
Sartorelli, Linda
Current Position: Professor, University of New England
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Cause and Conditions: An Investigation into the Notion of Singular of Mathematics

1981
Rainger, Ronald
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The Understanding of the Fossil Past: Paleontology and Evolution Theory 1850–1910

1981
Gray, Lewis
Current Position: Abelia Corporation
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: A Decision Theoretic Model of Congressional Technology Assessment: A Theoretical Examination of the Characteristics of Complete Assessment Reports, with Applications

1981
Hiskes, Anne L. Deckard
Current Position: Professor, University of Connecticut
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: Relativity Principles as Symmetry Requirements

1980
Ferrier, Richard Delahide
Current Position: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Two Exegetical Treatises of François Viète, Translated, Annotated and Explained

1980
Werdinger, Jeffrey
Current Position: New York
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Embryology at Woods Hole: The Emergence of a New American Biology

1980
Taylor, Gladys S.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Realism, Nominalism and Conceptualism in the Foundations of Mathematics

1979
Llana, James W.
Current Position: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, SUNY, The College at Old Westbury
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Elements in Eighteenth Century French Chemistry

1979
Matthews, Geoffrey B.
Current Position: Professor, Western Washington University
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: The Arrow of Time

1979
Beatty, John
Current Position: Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Traditional and Semantic Accounts of Evolutionary Theory

1978
Maienschein, Jane
Current Position: Professor, Arizona State University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Ross Harrison's Crucial Experiment as a Foundation for Modern American Experimental Embryology

1977
Dick, Steven J.
Current Position: Chief Historian, NASA
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Plurality of Worlds and Natural Philosophy: An Historical Study of the Origins of Belief in Other Worlds and Extraterrestrial Life

1976
Beauregard, Laurent A.
Current Position: Oregon
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Space and Time: A Study of the Concepts of Congruence and Simultaneity in Physical Theory

1976
Van Egmond, Warren
Current Position: Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Commercial Revolution and the Beginnings of Western Mathematics in Renaissance Florence, 1300-1500

1976
Hardegree, Gary M.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University MA, Amherst
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Studies in the Logic of Quantum Mechanics

1976
Van Houweling, Andrea Parks
Current Position: University of Michigan
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: The CMA Minipill Decision: A Problem in the Cultural Lag between Innovative Drug Technology and Society's Capacity for Drug Evaluation

1976
Paul, Erich R.
Deceased
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: Seeliger, Kapteyn and the Rise of Statistical Astronomy

1975
Rogers, C. Thomas
Current Position: California
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: A Critique of Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: Certain Difficulties in the Semantics of Social Choice

1975
Bowman, Inci Altug
Current Position: Retired, Washington, DC
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: William Cullen (1710-90) and the Primacy of the Nervous System

1975
Tamthai, Mark G.
Current Position: Payap University, Thailand
Advisor: J. Alberto Coffa
Dissertation Title: Analytic Components of Empirical Theories

1975
Jain, Chaman Lal
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Methodology and Epistemology: An Examination of Sir John Frederick William Herschel's Philosophy of Science with Reference to His Theory of Knowledge

1975
Wessels, Linda A.
Current Position: Associate Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Schroedinger's Interpretations of Wave Mechanics

1974
Overmann, Ronald J.
Current Position: National Science Foundation, Retired
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Theories of Gravity in the Seventeenth Century

1974
Le Noir, Timothy
Current Position: Professor, Duke University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Social and Intellectual Roots of Discovery in Seventeenth Century Mathematics

1973
Abramov, Blanche Wohl
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Pace University
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Geometrical Structures in Science

1973
Jobe, Evan K.
Current Position: Texas Tech University, Retired
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Nature of Time

1973
Stewart, Robert B.
Current Position: Colorado Springs, CO
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Principle of Indifference, Paradoxes, and a Priorism in Theories of Induction

1973
Nilson, Donald R.
Current Position: Akita University, Japan
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Quantum Logic, Quantum Probability, and Quantum Measurement: A Philosophical Perspective on the Quantum Theory

1972
Shaw, James R.
Current Position: University of Memphis, TN
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Early Models for Cardiac Structure and Function: The Presocratics through the Middle Ages

1972
Bowman, Peter
Current Position: University of Houston, Clear Lake
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Conventionality in Distant Simultaneity

1972
Moor, James H.
Current Position: Professor, Dartmouth College
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Computer Consciousness

1971
Swartz, Norman Manuel
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Contingent Identity

1971
Osorio, Alberto Cortes
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Identity in Quantum Mechanics

1971
Harder, Allen J.
Deceased
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Scientific Methodology and the Growth of Knowledge

1971
Cadden, Joan
Current Position: Professor, University of California, Davis
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Medieval Philosophy and Biology of Growth

1971
Christensen, Ferrel M.
Current Position: Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: A Defense of Temporal 'Becoming'

1971
Ringen, Jon D.
Current Position: Professor, University of Iowa
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: Behavior Theoretic Explanation: A Study of the New Dualism in the Philosophy of Action

1971
Byrne, Rodney P.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Oswego
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Nomos and Cosmos: Reichenbach's Explication of Scientific Language

1971
Rogers, Benjamin
Current Position: Associate Professor Emeritus, Wichita State University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Foundational Studies in Statistical Inference

1971
Straker, Stephen Mory
Deceased
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Kepler's Optics: A Study in the Development of Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy

1971
Grossman, Neal
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics: A Critical Survey

1970
Farber, Paul Lawrence
Current Position: Professor, Oregon State University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Buffon's Concept of Species

1970
Hetherington, Norris
Current Position: University of California, Berkeley Retired
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: The Development and Early Application of the Velocity-Distance Relation

1970
Asquith, Peter D.
Current Position: Professor, Michigan State University
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Alternative Mathematics and Their Status

1970
Fetzer, James H.
Current Position: Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Statistician's Dilemma: A Study in the Logic of Concept Formation

1970
Farrall, Lyndsay Andrew
Current Position: Principal, Friends School, Australia
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The Origins and Growth of the English Eugenics Movement 1865-1925

1969
Glymour, Clark Noren
Current Position: Alumni Univ. Prof., Carnegie Mellon & Sr. Res. Sci., U of W FL
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Theories: An Examination of the Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science

1969
Wright, C. E. (Larry)
Current Position: University of California-Riverside
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: A Cautious Defense of Teleology

1969
Levy, Edwin Jr.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Canada
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Interpretations of Quantum Theory and Soviet Thought

1968
Osler, Margaret Jo
Deceased
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton

1968
Zaffron, Richard
Deceased
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: Scientific Explanation: Explanation-Types and Explanation-Levels

1967
Child, James W.
Current Position: Professor, Bowling Green State University
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Ontological Commitment of Physical Theories

1967
Snow, Robert Emerson
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Certainty: Bacon, Descartes, and Pascal

1967
Home, Roderick Weir
Current Position: Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: The Effluvial Theory of Electricity

1967
McLaughlin, Robert
Current Position: Australia
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Theoretical Entities and Philosophical Dualisms A Critique of Instrumentalism

1966
Lacey, Hugh M.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Causal Order and the Topological Properties of Time

1966
Ruffner, James A.
Current Position: Professor, Wayne State University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Background and Early Development of Newton's Theory of Contents

1965
Lindberg, David C.
Current Position: Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Perspectiva Communis of John Peckham (Edited and translated by D.C. Lindberg)

1965
Thoren, Victor Eugene
Deceased, Indiana University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Tycho Brahe on the Lunar Theory

1964
Hull, David L.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Northwestern
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: The Logic of Phylogenetic Taxonomy

1964
Pav, Peter Anton
Current Position: Retired Eckerd College, Florida
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Eighteenth-Century Optics: The Age of Unenlightenment

Master's degree in HPSC

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Jonathan Oatess, 2017

Tyler Nighswander, 2017

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Archie Fields III, 2016

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David Rogers, 2016

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Angelo Hankes, 2015

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Martin Earl, 2014

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Matthew Schmelzer, 2008

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Robert Allen Shotwell, 2007

Evan Ragland, 2007

Jonathan Bodnar, 2006

Constantinos Mannouris, 2006

Sarah Smith, 2006

Ariel Weinberg, 2006

Stephen Crowley, 2005

Moon S. Choi, 2004

Alexander Klein, 2003

John Johnson, 2003

Kent B. VanCleave, 2003

David Stokes, 2001

Daniel Hartwig, 2001

James Pedgrift, 2001

Jean-Louis Hudry, 2000

Hunter Close, 2000

David Shumaker, 2000

Keith Miller, 2000

Charles Smith, 2000

Frederick Seiler, 1999

Kevin Grau, 1999

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Daniel Stolzenberg, 1998

Chris Thiel, 1998

Robert Brosnan, 1998

Byung-oh Lee, 1998

Juris Vinters, 1998

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Kevin Cullimore, 1995

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Robert Downey, 1995

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Krister Knapp, 1994

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Daniel Woodside, 1994

Judith Hammett, 1993

Patrick Catt, 1993

Amy Rubin, 1992

Thomas Franzel, 1992

Kathryn Fogle, 1991

Corinna Treitel, 1991

Nicholas Winter, 1991

Doug LaBarr, 1990

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Thomas Daley, 1988

Donald T. Smith, 1988

John C. Lockwood, 1987

Ivan Amato, 1986

John C. Lansing, 1986

Jeffrey Whitmer, 1986

Ana Estany, 1985

Gordon R. Steinhoff, 1985

Peter Lang, 1984

Mark Robbins, 1984

M.F. Pinette, 1983

Krista Hollenberg-Cussen, 1982

Howard D. Stern, 1982

Donald Wassem, 1981

Christine Fletcher, 1981

Sung Kyu Lee, 1980

Robert Reichert, 1980

Luis Enrique Garcia Restrepo, 1980

Charles Fox, 1980

Earl Wajenberg, 1980

Chester Buzzelli Jr., 1980

Ali Belkairous-Fissa, 1979

Robert Turner, 1979

Melvin Shibuya, 1978

Tod Heath, 1978

Richard Gast, 1977

William Lutz , 1977

Rowan Dordick, 1977

William Bradnan, 1977

Margaret Schabas, 1977

Jack Horner, 1976

Frank Nelson, 1976

Hans Hennig, 1976

Sidney Kitchel, 1975

Sheldon Miller, 1975

Laurence Smith, 1975

Donald Winstead, 1975

Michael Middlemas, 1975

Michael Cohen, 1975

Paul Dickey, 1975

Oskars Rieksts, 1975

Barbara Hedges, 1974

Peter Rubba Jr., 1974

Camillo Cimis, 1974

Genay Hess, 1972

Bertrand Shelton, 1972

John Bergman, 1972

Peter Yen-Chu Liu, 1972

Tom Hughes, 1970

Sang-Yong Song, 1970

Paul Erickson, 1969

Jay E. Hines, 1969

Virginia Marcum, 1969

Dan E. Poff, 1969

Derek Thomsett, 1969

Malcom Acock, 1968

Neal K. Grossman, 1968

James R. Holbrook, 1968

Timothy (Hochstatter) Blackwood, 1967

Barry Burrows, 1967

Mary E. Gindhart, 1967

Charles Levine, 1967

William A. Reupke, 1967

Floretta Yen, 1967

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